French authorities arrested Davit Kezerashvili, former Defense Minister of the Republic of Georgia, in the southern city of Nice on Monday. A French court ordered the detention of Kezerashvili, whose extradition is sought by the Georgian government, according to the news website Civil Georgia.

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project regional coordinator Khadija Ismayilova won a 2013 Global Shining Light Award Monday at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

The newly established British National Crime Agency (NCA) seized cocaine worth around £3 million, or about US$4 million, on Monday, the NCA announced in a news brief.

Colombian officials arrested Juan Francisco Gomez Cerchar, governor of the northern La Guajira department on Saturday, according to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. The governor and former mayor of the town of Barranacas is suspected of involvement in three murders and connections to right-wing paramilitary groups as well as organized crime figures.

Taiwan's Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice has reported the largest drug bust in two decades, according to the Taiwanese public Central News Agency (CNA).

A Venezuelan court has sentenced five former police officers to more than two decades in prison for drug trafficking, InSight Crime reports.  Three civilians were also convicted.

A Greek court found former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos guilty of corruption on Monday. Tsochatzopoulos, 74, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for accepting US$75 million in bribes, according to the Financial Times.

The British National Crime Agency (NCA) became operational on Monday, officially replacing the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA).

A Spanish court convicted 53 defendants on Friday, closing the book on Spain's largest-ever corruption trial.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Ross William Ulbricht, the man who they say ran the trafficking website Silk Road under the alias "Dread Pirate Roberts", on Tuesday.