Police

Greek police let suspected Georgian mob boss Lasha Sushanashvili slip away during the recent Europe-wide raids on a Georgian...

Police raided strip bars and nightclubs and arrested around one dozen people last week, aiming to shut down an organized...

Five years of investigations into possible corruption at BAE Systems have finally yielded the first criminal charges – an...

Forbes ran a thought-provoking editorial from a business professor at Carnegie Mellon University last week. In the...

Bobi Tsankov, a controversial journalist and media personality who had recently published articles and a book detailing his...

Cheap heroin and cocaine, flexible criminal networks and corrupt authorities are the lifeblood of Serbian organized crime,...

My weekly crime-and-corruption notes here focus on the former Eastern Bloc, but that’s simply because the region is OCCRP’s...

Naser Kelmendi, whose alleged drug dealing has long made him a target of Balkan law enforcement agencies, is facing more...

And I thought that Morava was just a brand of cheap, awful cigarettes. Morava was also the code name Serbian police used for...

The “Brainy Don,” Semion Mogilevich, known up to now as merely a shadowy controller of Eastern European gas pipelines, a...

Governments and private finance have gone after donors who have funded terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda, so terrorists are...

Yaponchik (“the little Japanese”), a Russian gangster,  reportedly died Friday, months after a sniper shot him several times...