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

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Guns marketed as blank firing props from Turkey and Italy can be converted into deadly weapons
Thousands of imported guns acquired for as little as £50 online are flooding the streets of Britain, an LBC investigation has revealed.
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UK launches major operation against paedophile rings — NCA to review cases
The Home Office has announced the National Crime Agency (NCA) will carry out a nationwide operation to target and jail predators who have sexually exploited children as part of grooming gangs.
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New rules: Foreigners apprehended for smuggling cannabis via Heathrow deported at once
Heathrow airport staff will be deporting foreigners caught smuggling cannabis, according to new stricter rules
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UK barber shops under investigation for money laundering and tax fraud
Several ’Turkish’ barber shops across the UK have been raided by authorities over fears they could be laundering drug money.
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Hundreds of suspects have been arrested, and £7.5 million has been seized in the UK as part of an operation against fraud
The outcomes of the February operation were released a week after the U.K. started implementing significant sections of the Online Safety Act, which seeks to combat fraud.
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Afghan people smuggling gang that trafficked thousands of migrants to Britain and raped and blackmailed children faces extradition to Belgium
Two Afghan small boat people smugglers who raped and blackmailed their victims with the footage, are facing extradition to Belgium.
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UK government aims to prevent firms from paying ransomware demands by outsmarting hackers
The NHS, rail operators and water companies could soon be blocked from paying ransomware demands, under government plans.
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UK, France, Germany target Channel people-smuggling network
In a major international operation, UK, French, and German authorities have dismantled an organised crime group (OCG) responsible for smuggling migrants to the UK via dangerous small-boat crossings in the Channel.
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Scottish drug lab boss jailed following arrest in Spain
A senior member of an organised crime group that ran an amphetamine lab in Scotland has been jailed for 13 years.
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Crypto ‘Laundromat’ linked to Russian financial sector and cocaine trade, police say
Britain’s National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.
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Multi-billion-pound Russian money-laundering operation uncovered with ties across the UK
The UK’s NCA has led an international crackdown on the "unprecedented" money-laundering operation which swapped cash from British street-level drug deals for cryto from elite Russian hackers
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One of FBI’s most wanted terrorists found in Wales after 20 years on the run
Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, was wanted for two bombings in the San Francisco area in 2003 - and was finally arrested by the UK National Crime Agency this week
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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