As new leaks allegedly reveal fresh examples of politically influenced appointments to top jobs in Kosovo, EULEX prosecutors are starting to evaluate the content of the wiretaps.     After a meeting with EULEX’s chief prosecutor, Claudio Pala, the office of Aleksander Lumezi, the Kosovo State Prosecutor, said prosecutors from the EU rule-of-law mission had […]

Policemen specialised in investigating economic crimes have conducted Thursday morning 22 searches in Bucharest and in Ilfov County. According to sources quoted by Realitatea TV, searches have targeted the company Energy Holding and its manager. The policemen with the Investigation of Economic Crimes Department in District 1 have seized financial and accounting documents from companies […]

The Chief Prosecutor of Kosovo said there was no legal basis for issuing indictments over leaked wiretapped phone conversations that allegedly show how the ruling party influenced top jobs in the public sector. Kosovo’s Chief Prosecutor said charges will not be raised over leaked telephone conversations that suggest top officials of the ruling Democratic Party […]

Higher court in Podgorica reached a verdict yesterday by which the defendant Lazar Radjenovic was convicted to 18 months in prison and a 30.000 euros fine which he has to pay into the budget of Montenegro within a one month deadline. The verdict became official yesterday. Radjenovic also signed an agreement in which he agreed […]

Kosovo’s chief prosecutor opened an investigation after a website published excerpts of wiretapped phone conversations that allegedly show that the ruling party controls key state jobs. Kosovo’s chief prosecutor Aleksander Lumezi said on Tuesday that he has ordered an analysis of the wiretap excerpts that were published the previous day to see whether any criminal […]

Between 2013 and 2015, more than US$ 13 million in dirty money from a giant Russia- centered money laundering scheme, dubbed the Russian Laundromat, flowed back into Moldova to buy shares in the country’s largest bank, Moldova Agroindbank (MAIB). The Russian Laundromat, uncovered by reporters from OCCRP and its partners RISE Romania and RISE Moldova, […]

Romanian businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu wanted to turn the Danube Delta into an upscale tourism destination as he controlled several hotels and spent much time there himself. This is why, in 2008, he asked Bogdan Olteanu, who was president of the Chamber of Deputies at that time, to use his influence and determine the Government […]

The opposition wants to question Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic over a leaked security report which accused the Special Prosecution Office for organized crime of acting too independently. Parliament’s Security and Defence Committee on Friday postponed a planned hearing of top security and prosecution officials, including Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, due to discuss the work of […]

Romania’s anti-graft prosecutors arrested central bank deputy governor Bogdan Olteanu on Friday in a corruption investigation, the prosecutors said, the first arrest of a leading central banker in the country.”He is now at our prosecuting headquarters, in detention,” one DNA prosecuting official told Reuters by telephone. “An inquiry is underway.” The anti-graft prosecutors, the DNA, […]

The EBRD President, Sir Suma Chakrabarti, visited Albania on 26 July 2016, as part of a wider regional tour of the Western Balkans. On 25 July he visited Kosovo and on 27-28 July he will visit Montenegro. Later in the summer, he is expected to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. This was Sir Suma’s […]