Transnational organized crime

BELGRADE - An international drug cartel has been dismantled and 30 people arrested in a joint operation of the Serbian and the German police, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday.

BELGRADE - An international drug cartel has been dismantled and 30 people arrested in a joint operation of the Serbian and the German police, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday.

Have you ever wondered why the drug cartel members get those scary tattoos from head to toes? Is it just because it makes them look meaner and tougher than the average Joe? Or is it because they simply like getting ink on their bodies?

Italy's battle against the mafia has provoked an unusual problem for the government - the headache of managing a staggering portfolio of assets and cash seized from mobsters.

Romania has taken over the annual chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's [OSCE] Security Committee, to remain in charge from January 1 until December 31, 2015, following to be particularly committed to fighting terrorism, transnational organised crime, the illegal migration phenomenon in the OSCE range of influence, improving cyber security, combating human tr

Italy is a democracy with a mafia on the inside, while Bulgaria is mafia with democracy on the inside, journalist and writer Roberto Saviano believes.

Francis on June 21 issued the strongest attack on organised crime groups by a pontiff in two decades, accusing them of practicing the "the adoration of evil" and saying mafiosi are excommunicated. 

It was the first time a pope had used the word excommunication - a total cutoff from the Church - in direct reference to members of organised crime. 

Bulgaria will cooperate with China in the prevention of and fight against crime, after a draft agreement between the two countries' governments has been approved, Wednesday.