The Constitutional Court (CCR) is expected to rule Wednesday on decriminalizing the offense of abuse of office. The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) has warned that if this happens, it will seriously weaken the country’s fight against corruption. Laura Codruţa Kovesi, chief of the DNA, told Digi24 on June 9, “Forty-two percent of the cases investigated […]

The special prosecution for organized crime will probe allegations that ruling party committed electoral fraud in the run-up to the October elections – if an opposition motion secures a majority of votes. The prosecution has already conducted several investigation into alleged abuses of state funds. Photo: Wikipedia/Rama. Three opposition parties which entered the Montenegrin government […]

The Bucharest Court approved on Friday two arrest warrants on Dan Nicolae Straja, the manager of the Bucharest Institute of Oncology, and Bogdan Pălintineanu, the manager of the Bagdasar Arseni Hospital. The two hospital managers were held by anticorruption prosecutors on bribery charges, on Thursday. Both managers allegedly requested money from companies so that their […]

Croatia is facing one of its most severe political crises since independence. Its ingredients are corruption, conflicts of interest, personal hostilities – and the future of the Balkan nation. Soon, Croatians will have two reasons to celebrate. On 25 June, the country at the Adriatic sea will mark the 25th anniversary of its independence. This […]

42% of the cases investigated by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) include offenses of abuse of office, and the damage amounts to EUR 620 million only in the files handled last year. If this offense is decriminalized, the state can say goodbye to this money, public servants can do whatever they want, and those who […]

The head of Albanian police has been suspended at the request of prosecutors who are investigating him for abuse of office regarding their suspicion that police are illegally using a wiretapping device which they say entered the country “without proper authorization.” Police Director Haki Cako was suspended Tuesday, while Operational Forces (FO) director Artion Duka […]

French ambassador in Bucharest Francois Saint-Paul on Tuesday bestowed the French National Order of the Legion of Honour in rank of Knight on chief prosecutor of Romania’s National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi, saying that the DNA enjoys huge popularity and its fame has exceeded the borders of Romania to become a model worth […]

Two leading professors, three other professors, an associate professor and a cafeteria manager are being implicated in the largest corruption case to ever hit Macedonia’s high education system. Former Dean of the state run Economic Faculty in Skopje Bobek Suklev and Taki Fiti, professor at the same faculty and current President of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences […]

More than a quarter of the recently elected mayors of Romania’s 41 counties are under investigation or have been placed under preventative arrest over corruption charges. The mayors of 11 of Romanian counties who were re-elected in the local polls on June 5 have either been accused of or are under investigation for corruption. They were re-elected […]

Today, 6 June 2016, the new website of the Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection was launched. The site is the campaign, outreach, news and research hub for the whistleblower movement in Southeast Europe. The SEE Coalition on Whistleblower Protection is a regional organization dedicated to strengthening legal protections and rights for whistleblowers, investigating whistleblower cases, […]