Spain has agreed to continue the extradition process for accused Serbian organized crime boss Luka Bojovic, and his associates Vladimir Milisavljevic and Sinisa Petric, El Mundo reported  Friday. The three were arrested in Valencia, Spain in February. 

At the request of the Spanish Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon, the Council of Ministers has agreed to move forward with the extraditions. Bojovic, a prominent member of the Zemun organized crime group based near Belgrade, Serbia, is wanted in several countries for crimes including murder, organized crime, illegal possession of weapons, counterfeiting and kidnapping.

The head of Kosovo’s Anti-Corruption Task Force was detained Monday after handing himself in to the authorities.

Nazmi Mustafi, president of a unit set up by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, was arrested on charges of corruption, influence peddling and abuse of office.

The case is being investigated by prosecutors from EULEX, the EU rule of law mission which has served as an international administrator since the country became independent in 2008.

The Center for Humane Politics (CHP), a Bosnian civil society organization,  filed a criminal complaint with the Republika Srpska (RS) Prosecutor’s Office against Minister of Energy Zeljko Kovacevic and others, for organized theft of electricity, abuse of power, corrupt business practice, and other criminal activities enabling the theft of electricity. 

The theft allegedly happened through “Elektrokrajina” in Banja Luka, the capital of the Serbian majority entity. “Elektrokrajina” is a distributor for the state-owned power company Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske and was once managed by Kovacevic.

The family of Russia’s first deputy prime minister bought almost US$18 million worth of Gazprom shares through an offshore company just before the government announced that foreigners could purchase stock in the gas company, reports the Financial Times (FT).

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov’s family purchased the shares through an offshore company called Sevenkey in mid-2004, when he was a deputy economic adviser to former and future President Vladimir Putin.

Six members of the organized crime group led by fugitive Montenegrin drug lord Darko Saric accepted plea bargains on Wednesday in return for reduced sentences, announced the Serbia’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime. The six defendants pleaded guilty to charges of organized crime and drug trafficking.  The sentences they agreed to have not yet been confirmed by the court.

Milos Pandrc, 30, pleaded guilty to charges of belonging to Saric’s organized crime group, and smuggling cocaine from Brazil in 2008 and Uruguay in 2009 for Saric. Over two tons of cocaine were seized in a 2009 police raid codenamed “Balkan Warrior,” on a yacht off the coast ofUruguay.  He would receive10 and a half years in prison. Marko Vorotovic, 32 pleaded guilty to the same charges and was sentenced to nine years.

Romania jailed a serving parliamentarian for corruption for the first time in its history on Tuesday, another indication that the Eastern European country is getting ever more serious about combating corruption.

The country’s Supreme Court sentenced Virgil Pop, a deputy in the Romanian Parliament, to five years in prison after it rejected his appeal on charges of forgery, money laundering, and abuse of power this week.

Prosecutors said Pop used his influence to unfairly award public contracts to a private company from the northwestern city of Cluj.

Pop, 44, was a member of the small opposition Liberal Party, until he stepped down after the verdict.

Dusko Martinovic, a Montenegrin member of the international “Pink Panther” gang of jeweler thieves, was extradited from France to Montenegro on Tuesday. Martinovic was arrested in the Netherlands in October 2005, in connection with a robbery of around €2 million (US$2.7 million) in jewelry from a store in Saint-Tropez. He was extradited to France in April 2006, where he was sentenced in May 2009 to 15 years in prison for armed robbery.

Martinovic was extradited at the request of the Montenegrin Ministry of Justice, and will continue serving the remaining 12 years of his sentence in Montenegro.

The European Commission plans to set up a special center focused on cyber crime to protect Europeans against illegal electronic and online criminal activities.

The Commission said Wednesday that it would integrate the center with Europol, the European agency based in the Netherlands.

“As the online part of our everyday lives grows, organized crime is following suit — and these crimes affect each and every one of us,” said EU Home Affairs Commissioner Celia Malmstroem.

Ukrainian prosecutors are asking Italy to extradite a leading opposition figure wanted at home for abuse of power charges.  Arsen Avakov, an ally of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has been detained in Italy, Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office announced on Tuesday.

Avakov, governor of Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region from 2005 to 2012, was arrested in the Italian town of Frosinone on Monday, reports Reuters.

The extradition request is the latest example of Ukraine accusing members of the previous government, currently in opposition, of corruption and has not gone unnoticed by the European Union (EU), which has raised alarm about politically motivated arrests.

A Romanian member of   Parliament charged with transnational organized crime, money laundering, counterfeiting, and fraud was taken into custody by the Romanian authorities on Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya. Mihail Boldea was detained at the Romanian consulate in Nairobi.

Boldea was indicted on March 16 but according to Romanian authorities, police have been searching for him since he left the country on March 19^th - the same day that the Parliament lifted his immunity from prosecution. He first went to Bulgaria, then to Turkey, from where he boarded a plane to a unknown locations before ending up in Kenya.