News Brief Highlights
The former director of Budva city land registry, Mirjana Marovic, was arrested by Montenegrin police.
She is suspected of being part of a large, organized group that made an exchange of construction land between private companies which is said to have cheated the city’s coffers of about € 1.4 million (US$ 1.56 million).
Italian authorities have arrested 24 people they suspect of involvement in a cloned credit card scam that allegedly netted nearly € 3 million (US$ 3.36 million).
Bosnian authorities arrested three people they suspect of selling different kinds of forged documents, including police badges, to buyers in the region since 2013.
Step aside, Google! The government of oil-rich Azerbaijan will launch its own national web service, according to reports. Critics fear it could mean greater repression of activists and journalists by the state.
Two senior politicians from Romania’s opposition Liberal Party were indicted Monday on allegations of money laundering.
 Police in Lithuania’s central Kaunas county announced early this week that a record seizure of cocaine has been made after discovering the drug mixed in with shipments of coal.
The former agriculture minister of the Federation entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been arrested alongside four other current and former government officials on suspicion of abuse of office in a US$ 400,000 kickback scheme.
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