Dozens of arrests have been made in Spain, Romania and Portugal in a coordinated operation targeting a large-scale pick-pocketing organisation that used the “hug-mugging” method to steal more than 1... read more →
Albania and Northern Macedonia have “stepped up their work and delivered further tangible and sustainable results in the key areas,” the European Union’s Commissioner for Enlargement said in relation to... read more →
Twenty-five suspected members of an Albanian drug trafficking gang operating from Belgium have been arrested in a coordinated police action in five countries, according to a Europol statement. Fourteen searches... read more →
Bulgarian authorities seized half a ton of cocaine from Colombia, hidden in two trucks carrying citrus fruits, the country’s interior ministry announced on Sunday. The drug was hidden in 6,700... read more →
Italian public broadcaster Rai 3 has drawn the ire of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama after reporting that cannabis cultivation in Albania has grown by 1200 percent despite the Albanian... read more →
Greek police seized nearly 1.2 tons of cocaine and arrested eight foreign nationals suspected of belonging to a criminal network that transported drugs from the Caribbean to Europe, Greek police... read more →
The Bulgarian environment minister has resigned after being arrested by anti-corruption investigators in relation to the illegal diversion of water that has left some 80,00 people with insufficient supplies of... read more →
A former Bosnian minister and three others have been charged with abuse of power and corruption for illegally profiting from an EU-funded project, the prosecutor's office in Sarajevo announced on... read more →
Authorities in Kosovo have charged two men in connection with the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, according to local media reports. Nedeljko Spasojevic, a former Kosovan police officer, and Marko Rosic,... read more →
The “cocaine king” accused of being behind one of the largest ever drugs busts to take place on European soil has been identified as the Balkan organised crime boss Michael... read more →
