All news on the topic: National Crime Agency (NCA)

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’Major’ Turkish supplier of small boats for Channel migrant crossings arrested as UK’s ’British FBI’ conducts airport operation
A suspected people smuggler has been arrested in Amsterdam, accused of supplying small boats for English Channel crossings.
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Huge cocaine haul discovered on fishing boat off Kent coast; four men arrested
Four men have been arrested after nearly 400kg of cocaine was found on a fishing boat off the Kent coast.
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Luxembourg Bank "central" to the purchase of luxury British real estate with embezzled Azerbaijan funds, says U.K. police
The U.K.’s National Crime Agency successfully argued in a High Court case in London that accounts at the Banque Internationale à Luxembourg were used to move millions from a high profile embezzlement case in Azerbaijan into expensive properties.
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Hazardous new drugs found in fake medications across the UK
Super-strength drugs linked to hundreds of deaths have been found in samples of fake medicines bought across the UK, the BBC can reveal.
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Kinahan gang boss who orchestrated arms cache plot from prison receives a six-year jail sentence
Thomas Kavanagh, 57, enlisted two associates to help with the scheme while he was in prison. He wanted the National Crime Agency to find a weapons stash in an effort to influence his sentencing in a multimillion-pound drug case.
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Operation Venetic: Two firearms and drugs dealers jailed
Two criminals who sold Class A drugs and firearms have been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation.
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County Antrim man charged with cannabis smuggling in NCA investigation
A man from Northern Ireland has been charged with drugs offences after £325,000 worth of cannabis was seized at Belfast Port.
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£40 million worth of cocaine found in inflatable boat on UK beach; six arrested over 500kg haul
A £40million stash of cocaine hidden on an inflatable boat off the West Sussex coast has been uncovered by investigators.
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Drug smugglers convicted for shipping large cocaine haul hidden in banana boxes through Portsmouth port
Organised criminals that smuggled a large amount of cocaine in a shipment of bananas through Portsmouth port have been convicted.
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Son of Kinahan cartel kingpin Thomas Kavanagh extradited to UK for firearms offences
The son of Kinahan cartel kingpin Thomas Kavanagh has been extradited to the UK to face trial for firearms offences.
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NGO claims UK National Crime Agency is ‘on its knees’
Facing understaffing and retention issues stemming from chronic underinvestment, the U.K.’s elite crime fighting agency is left hobbled, finds a new report by the non-government organization, Spotlight on Corruption.
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Website operators promised fraudsters profit within minutes if they subscribed to illegal service
Three men have pleaded guilty to running a website enabling criminals to circumvent banking anti-fraud checks.
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Amount of cannabis seized at UK airports triples in under a year
National Crime Agency says overproduction of drug in countries where it has been legalised may be behind rise
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Ransomware kingpin extradited to U.S. faces decades in prison
Poland has extradited a Belarusian-Ukrainian cybercrime suspect to the United States, where he could face decades in prison for allegedly masterminding a global ransomware and wire fraud scheme under the alias “J.P. Morgan.”
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UK’s National Crime Agency declares it is ‘not scared’ of PPE Medpro’s lawyers
Agency says long-running investigation into company run by Tory peer Michelle Mone’s husband will be concluded as quickly as possible
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UK arrests two in "Russian Coms" scam, shuts down platform
U.K. authorities announced Thursday in London the arrest of two individuals suspected of developing and administering the “Russian Coms” caller ID spoofing service, believed to have defrauded hundreds of thousands of people out of millions of dollars.
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Wife of jailed Azeri banker forfeits house near Harrods and Ascot golf club
High spender Zamira Hajiyeva hands over assets as part of settlement worth £18.5m to taxpayers
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UK: Ringleader of banana-filled cocaine smuggling gang convicted
The ringleader of an organized crime group that tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the U.K. via a container of bananas was convicted Wednesday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported.
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Seven banks share data with UK law enforcement in a crackdown on ’dirty money’
Barclays (BARC.L),NatWest and Lloyds are among seven banks to share customer data with the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the largest project of its kind worldwide to tackle criminal gangs, money laundering and "dirty money" flowing through the country.
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Man, 46, arrested in connection with criminal investigation into PPE Medpro
Suspect understood to have been arrested on suspicion of offences including conspiracy to commit fraud