A Ukrainian activist was splashed with acid and died in the hospital three months later. OCCRP’s Ukrainian member center has obtained records showing that one of the suspects was communicating with police and prosecutors in the days surrounding the attack.

Jesus Eugenio Ramos Rodriguez has become the second journalist to be murdered in Mexico so far this year, after he was shot while having breakfast on Saturday morning.

Slovakian police arrested Thursday eight people in connection with the brutal murder of a local journalist who was shot dead at close range in his home in February while investigating the infiltration of the Italian mob into his home country.

The former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme and his accomplice received life sentences for the 1993 murder of a nightclub owner and federal witness, Steven DiSarro, the Department of Justice said on Thursday.

US authorities arrested last Thursday more than 20 suspected members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, better known as MS-13, for assault, racketeering and drug dealing. The Department of Justice also unsealed two indictments against more gang members, charging them with kidnapping, murder and racketeering.

Investigators say that a recently appointed Honduran anti-corruption investigator who was initially believed to have commited suicide, was actually murdered, TeleSur reported on Monday.

Slovak crime boss Robert Okolicany fled the country hours after the Supreme Court sentenced him and two of his associates to life for several crimes including murder, Aktuality reported Thursday.

Maltese police arrested 10 people suspected of being involved in the killing of investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced on Monday.

Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and editor known for her criticism of far-right Hindu politics, was found lying in a pool of blood on her doorstep Tuesday.

A South African wildlife conservationist who frequently received death threats from poachers was murdered on Wednesday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, The Guardianreported.

The chief editor of a newspaper in the Siberian city of Minusinsk was shot dead in a killing that authorities said Thursday they believe may be connected to his work.

A Mexican woman who became a prominent activist for families of missing relatives after a cartel killed her daughter was murdered in her home on Wednesday - Mother’s Day in Mexico.

An international anti-corruption watchdog blamed several high ranking Honduran politicians and businessmen Tuesday for violence against environmental activists who stood in the way of their businesses.

A court in Belgium sentenced a former senior Yugoslav intelligence official on Wednesday for collaborating with organized crime figures to assassinate a Kosovar Albanian activist in Brussels in 1990.

An Austrian court approved the extradition of a suspected Russian mob boss whose gang is allegedly responsible for scores of murders, Russian media reported Tuesday.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday handed down more than a century in prison terms to 13 members of a criminal group labeled by prosecutors as the largest in the country since the end of 1992 to 1995 war.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic announced Monday plans to keep in place controversial Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar, despite reporting by an OCCRP partner showing dealings connecting him to organized crime.

Zlatibor Loncar (Photo: Dragana Peco)

Belgrade's High Court has accepted prosecutors’ third attempt to indict the brother of slain Montenegrin gangster Branislav Saranovic over an alleged 2013 revenge killing, Serbian OCCRP partner the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) has reported.

Avni Metra is fighting extradition from the United Kingdom after he was identified as an alleged gang member and a brutal two-time murderer in a Daily Mail investigation.

The Montenegrin government decided to issue a reward for information on the identity of those behind the 2004 murder of Dusko Jovanovic, the celebrated founder and chief editor of Dan, Montenegro's highest-circulation daily newspaper.