The U.S. State Department’s Annual Report on Human Rights in Turkey claimed that corruption and impunity were common and only worsening.

The U.S. State Department detailed extensive government corruption across multiple sectors of the economy in its 43-page Annual Human Rights Report on Macedonia.

In Albania the most significant human rights problems are pervasive corruption in all branches of government.

“Endemic government and private-sector corruption coupled with the lack of punishment for corrupt acts” remain a major cause for concern in Kosovo.

Corruption is cited as “among the country’s most significant human rights problems” in Montenegro.

The U.S. State Department’s 2016 Annual Human Rights Report contained a 32-page chapter on Bosnia and Herzegovina, which found that “government corruption remained among the country’s most serious problems, contributing to continued political and economic stagnation.”

During his second term as prime minister, Boyko Borisov had years in power to reverse course on the bank run on Corporate Commercial Bank, an event which brought Bulgaria's economy to its knees.

The 2016 report on human rights in Romania released by the U.S. State Department earlier this month documented the country’s struggle with systematic corruption.

The chapter on Slovenia in the U.S. State Department’s Annual Human Rights Report cites the threat and use of defamation suits against journalists, among other intimidation methods.

Four years ago, Deylan Peevski used his clout to gain a bizarre appointment to the top post leading Bulgaria’s counter-intelligence unit, where he claimed he would arrest and prosecute Boyko Borisov.

The U.S. State Department’s Annual Report on Human Rights in Bulgaria said “corruption continued to be a drag” on the country, and that efforts to punish corrupt public officials have been “insufficient.”

International watchdog Transparency International says 11 of 12 Balkan nations are perceived as “highly corrupt,” and that Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria and Serbia have “endemic corruption” in their public sector.

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena is the oldest bank in not just Italy, but all of Europe. Corpbank was one of the newest in Bulgaria.

Bulgaria's upstart political party Yes, Bulgaria doesn’t like to hear the word ‘no.’

Bulgaria’s “We The Citizens” group recently wrote an open letter to President Rumen Radev asking for the full truth of KTB’s bankruptcy and subsequent looting of its assets.

On Feb. 20, Moscow’s Tsverskoy District Court issued a new arrest warrant in absentia for William Browder, UK citizen and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, a major investment firm he co-founded in Russia in 1996.

On February 5, more than half a million Romanians took to the streets in defiance of their government's move to decriminalize corruption offenses.

Between 2013 and 2014, the country of Bulgaria saw one of its largest and most successful banks get demolished by a trio of a corrupt judiciary, corrupt media, and corrupt government officials in a classic corporate raiding scheme.

Vojvodjanska Banka recently announced that its Belgrade branch at Vojvodje Supljikca Street 53-55 will be moving to Njegoseva 72 St., on Jan. 16, where all operations will continue and account holders will be able to access a full range of services.