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A former high-ranking Russian general has been sentenced to seven years in a maximum-security prison after being found guilty of taking bribes worth some €390,000.

European authorities have seized over €33 million in assets during a major crackdown on an international criminal network accused of smuggling damaged U.S. vehicles into the EU, evading taxes and endangering consumers.

Critics have said the trial was intended to intimidate the media.

A Ukrainian man held in the Netherlands over a knife attack in Amsterdam last Thursday is believed to have had terrorist motives, Dutch prosecutors have said.

Police officers who refused to arrest a shoplifter because they were ‘too busy’ waiting for a kebab are facing the sack.

A court in southeastern Poland sentenced a 38-year-old man to eight months in prison for making death threats against Jerzy Owsiak, the founder and head of the country’s largest charity.

The controversial online influencers left Romania in February after a travel ban was lifted.

The conviction comes just days after he was found guilty of embezzlement.

A nightclub fire in North Macedonia killed 59 people on Saturday night.

Polish border guards detained a Ukrainian woman who was sentenced to 12 years in prison in Kazakhstan for participating in an organized criminal group trading in human organs and selling 56 kidneys, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

A glamorous Polish ‘crime boss’ linked to violent football ultras has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for drug trafficking, money laundering, and drug smuggling.

A group arrested in Lithuania in November tried to torch an aid convoy for Ukraine that included military equipment and radars, the head of the police has said.

A Ukrainian teenager who committed a slew of speeding offenses faces deportation from Poland after being caught by police.

Romania’s justice minister has called for an investigation into why controversial online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother were allowed to leave the country despite facing serious criminal charges.

Prague’s transport authorities have apologized after a tram driver was filmed hitting a late middle-aged male passenger and shouting anti-Ukrainian comments.

Two French researchers have been sentenced to eight months’ house arrest for throwing explosive bottles over the wall of a Russian consulate in France.

The suspected murder of three elderly women in Warsaw may have been driven by a motive known from Dostoevsky’s classic novel ‘Crime and Punishment,’ an official has said.

Poland’s defense minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, has vowed a “vigorous” fight against “vile or criminal activities” by foreign gangs.

Poland has said almost 400 migrants face deportation as part of a government crackdown on foreign gangs.

Spanish authorities have busted a Russian-led international criminal network that provided money laundering services to gangs all around the world.