Just two weeks after a broad-reaching police swoop on the new Mafia of Rome, police made another significant mafia arrest over a multi-million dollar fraud involving a ghost ship and the sale of non-existent petrol to the Italian Navy.
In the latest part of a long investigation into an organised crime group, Austrian and Romanian authorities in cooperation with the EU'spolice force (EUROPOL) have identified 350 woman engaged in prostitution in Carinthia, Austria.
Armenia's National Security Service reports that its officers arrested a teacher at Gyumri’s State Pedagogical Institute today at the moment he was accepting a 60,000 AMD (US$130) bribe from a student as the price to pay for getting a passing mark on a test.
One questions such a name for the company since “anapat”, in Armenian, can be translated as the noun “desert” or “wasteland”, or the adjectival equivalent “barren”. Perhaps they had in mind “wilderness”.