Romanian police have raided seven credit card skimming rings accused of stealing more than two million euros ($2.5 million) from European and US card holders, officials said on Thursday. Police coordinated searches on Thursday in Romania, Britain, Germany, the United States and the Dominican Republic to break up the rings, apprehending more than 70 suspects, Romanian prosecutors said.

A Swedish court Friday sentenced a 40-year-old Swede as the mastermind behind a drug ring linked to a massive Caribbean cocaine bust to 18 years in prison. Jonas Oredsson led a drug ring linked to a record cocaine bust in June 2010 on a sailboat off Martinique, where police seized Colombian cocaine worth around one billion kronor (120 million euros, $156 million). French customs said the 1.2-tonne haul was the largest drug find in the country's history. The punishment reflected Oredsson's criminal record, the Stockholm District court said in a statement.

Spanish police and Europol have busted a global cybercrime operation that infected millions of computers with a virus that falsely accused victims of viewing child pornography and demanded a fine payment, officials said Wednesday. Police detained 11 people as part of the operation, including a 27-year-old Russian suspected of creating and distributing the virus, Europol director Rob Wainwright told a news conference in Madrid.

Football on Monday vowed to fight the scourge of match-fixing but warned a joint effort was needed to tackle the problem after police unveiled a massive criminal network that rigged hundreds of top-flight matches. Europol said a five-country probe had identified some 380 suspicious matches targeted by a Singapore-based betting cartel, whose illegal activities stretched to players, referees and officials across the world and at all levels of the game.