All news on the topic: Criminal Organization

In einer Entscheidung, die das baltische Rechtssystem erschütterte und Zweifel an der Integrität der europäischen Justiz aufwarf, genehmigte ein estnisches Gericht einen Deal, der eher wie eine Preisliste für Straffreiheit als wie ein Schuldspruch wirkt.

In a decision that surprised the Baltic legal system and raised questions about the integrity of European justice, an Estonian court approved a plea deal that resembles a price list for immunity rather than a guilty verdict.

A Moldovan court on Wednesday found businessman Vladimir Plahotniuc guilty of involvement in the country’s ’Billion Dollar Bank Fraud,’ sentenced him to 19 years in prison, and ordered the confiscation of over 1.1 billion Moldovan lei (approximately $64 million) in assets.

Turkish authorities detained the Mayor of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, Mustafa Bozbey, on Tuesday, along with 54 other suspects, in coordinated raids across five provinces.

A previous high school teacher in Hillsborough County has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to purchase firearms for a transnational criminal organization based in Trinidad and Tobago.

The ex-mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, currently incarcerated, appeared in court on Monday to confront extensive charges of corruption and organized crime in a large-scale trial that rights groups argue is politically driven and might result in a prison sentence of over 2,000 years.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Berlin and Cologne and Prague are spearheading an EU-wide operation against a suspected criminal organization, thought to have orchestrated cross-border VAT fraud schemes, resulting in estimated tax damage of over €103 million through the sale of luxury cars.

U.S. President Donald Trump seemed confident on January 3 as he announced the arrest of his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro.

The Trump administration has spent more than $30 million to send migrants to far-flung countries that are not their own, including, in a few instances, paying over $1 million a person, a new report from the Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says.

Ukraine has taken steps to sanction businessman Timur Mindich, a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the midst of a comprehensive corruption investigation into alleged kickbacks and money laundering at the state-owned nuclear energy company Energoatom.