The National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) has announced that the Senate on Monday denying a request to prosecute former Deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea for culpable homicide is blocking all investigation procedures in the matter while preventing prosecutors from establishing Oprea’s responsibility in the death of police agent Bogdan Gigina. “The Romanian Senate denying by a […]

The Albanian Ministry of Finance has prepared new changes to the tax procedures law, stipulating softer penalties against businesses in cases of law infringement, sources from the ministry said Monday. These new changes have been made following the decision of the Albanian Constitutional Court to nullify the previous law on tax procedures, considering the penalties […]

Nearly 50 candidates for the positions of mayor or municipality chief in next month’s Bosnian elections have been convicted of, charged with or investigated for organised crime, corruption or war crimes. In the 140 Bosnian municipalities that will elect city mayors and municipality chiefs in the October local elections, candidate lists contain almost 50 individuals […]

The anticorruption prosecutors started the criminal prosecution of George Scripcaru, the mayor of Romanian mountain resort Brasov, for abuse of office. Scripcaru is being investigated in a case in which Aristotel Cancescu, the former president of Brasov County Council, was placed under judicial control for abuse of office. Two other people are investigated in this […]

Prosecutors from the National Anticorruption Department (DNA) arrested Gheorghe Benea, the former general manager of the Romanian Lottery, for bribery and abuse of office. The case targets a contract the state-owned company concluded in 2010 for its car fleet renewal.   Ovidiu Ripanu, the Lottery’s head of acquisitions, was also arrested for bribery, abuse of office, […]

An Albanian court has sentenced former labor minister Spiro Ksera to 20 months in jail for abuse of office. Ksera, 49, minister of labor, social affairs and equal opportunities until 2013, was convicted for setting aside 30 million leks ($285,000) for activities with the Roma community that never took place but were authenticated with fake […]

The prosecutors asked Romanian Senate president and former Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu to take a polygraph test as they questioned him as a witness in a corruption case on Thursday, September 15. Tariceanu says he willingly accepted the lie detector test and claims that the National Anticorruption Department (DNA) wants to compromise his image before […]

Romania’s High Court of Cassation and Justice has admitted the request of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) related to the bankruptcy of local insurer Carpatica Asig. DNA had requested the court to block the insurer from going bankrupt as Carpatica Asig is involved in a corruption case DNA has been investigating. Following the decision, the […]

The former president of the now-defunct State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, Svetozar Marovic, has been convicted of the full battery of corruption charges leveled against him after the country’s High Court accepted his second plea bargain, the court announced Tuesday. Marovic was sentenced to a total of three years and ten months in prison […]

This morning’s report from the European Court of Auditors on the European Commission’s anti-corruption efforts in the Western Balkans is a stark wake up call. Scratch beneath the veneer of bureaucratic niceness and the message is loud and clear – the billions of euros being spent by the Commission on the fight against corruption in […]