Combined law enforcement teams from Croatia, Italy, Serbia, Europol and the Spanish Guardia Civil have seized 700 kilograms of cocaine from the so-called “Balkan Cartel.” The drugs were seized and... read more →
Italian authorities have seized a Greek shipping vessel loaded with cocaine, belonging to Greek shipowner Panagiotis Laskaridis. Italian authorities found the vessel loaded with cocaine after searching it in Venice.... read more →
Gianmarco Daniele, Bocconi University The arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro, one of Sicily’s most infamous mafia bosses, has reminded many Italians of the extreme violence he was associated with when... read more →
A new investigation has revealed that Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic failed to report a villa purchase made in 2018 to Serbia’s Agency for the Prevention of Corruption. The villa purchase... read more →
Albania’s Special Prosecution (SPAK) announced the conclusion of a joint operation with Bergamo prosecutors in Italy, resulting in the seizure of large quantities of drugs in Italy. According to the... read more →
A former police officer in southern Albania was found guilty of drug trafficking on Friday, linked to a 2017 case that also implicated the country’s former interior minister Saimir Tahiri.... read more →
Experts at cybersecurity firm Bitdefender have warned that a phishing scam that was first detected in July 2021 is now targeting email users in Romania, Croatia and Hungary. As part... read more →
Italy over the weekend ordered the release of several mafia leaders from jail under the government’s new coronavirus regulation. A report by CNN quoting Italy’s anti-mafia prosecutor Federico Cafiero de... read more →
European countries are freeing up their jail spaces by releasing low-risk prisoners early in a bid to keep the coronavirus outbreak at bay. Euronews reported on Thursday that releasing inmates... read more →
Italian intelligence services arrested 19 people and seized a cache of weapons on Thursday, as part of an extensive operation into a far-right group who wanted to create a new... read more →
