An opinion poll carried out by the Institute for Research and Development Alternatives confirmed once again that corruption remains a concerning phenomenon in Albania. Only 8% of the citizens believe that corruption doesn’t exist or that it is very little spread. 89% of the citizens believe that this phenomenon is much spread. 38% believe that […]

Romania’s anticorruption prosecutors have asked for a 14-year jail sentence against Romanian investor Gabriel “Puiu” Popoviciu, who owns Baneasa Shopping City in northern Bucharest and the KFC and Pizza Hut franchises in Romania, according to Agerpres. The prosecutors sent Popoviciu to court in December 2012 for complicity to abuse of office against public interests and […]

The Legal Affairs Committee in Bulgaria’s Parliament backed the draft bill to combat high-level corruption proposed by Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva, public radio broadcaster BNR reported on Wednesday. Bulgarian Deputy PM Meglena Kuneva. Photo by BGNES The opinion of the Legal Affairs Committee is indicative of the possible outcome of the vote in the plenary […]

Institution strengthening is crucial for building integrity in the fight against corruption, the State Secretary Bojan Sarkic and Per Christensen, the director of the Centre for Integrity in the Defence Sector (CIDS) at the Norwegian Ministry of Defence agreed.     The visit of CIDS director to the Ministry of Defence has been organised within […]

Azem Syla, a prominent Kosovo politician from the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, is accused of being the head of a crime syndicate involved in property scams and money laundering.   Azem Syla at the Palace of Justice in Pristina. Photo: BIRN.   Azem Syla, a prominent legislator from the governing Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, […]

In the latest scandal rocking the Romanian health system, Prosecutors say more than 50 psychiatrists and doctors illegally used their patients as experimental subjects for clinical trials without their consent. Prosecutors say that 250 people were victims of the illegal clinical studies | Photo: wikipedia.org Romanian police conducted over 20 searches on Tuesday at medical offices […]

Republic of Moldova needs an authority responsible for recovery of assets acquired from criminal activities, recommends a UNDP study, launched today, 31 May 2016. The research was conducted within the “Strengthening the corruption prevention and analysis function of the National Anticorruption Center”, financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Unfortunately news about assets stolen […]

Private doctors and hospitals are topping the patient confidence rankings in Romania, while the public hospitals are bringing up the rear, according to the findings of a poll conducted by IMAS and the Medical Innovation Centre. The study reveals that 66 percent of the respondents trust Romanian doctors much and very much, while the private […]

A mayor who was said to have treated the northwest village of Galiche like a feudal domain was charged by Bulgarian authorities with controlling an organized crime gang, Balkan Insight reported. A police operation in the village saw 12 arrested, of which eight have already been indicted. Mayor Tsenko Chokov was allegedly determined to be […]

Romania’s General Prosecutor’s office, which has been conducting the criminal investigation on the diluted hospital disinfectants scandal, made the first arrest on Friday evening, May 27. The prosecutors decided to hold Flori Dinu, the general manager of Hexi Pharma, a Romanian company that has been producing and selling diluted disinfectants to hundreds of public hospitals. […]