National Economic Crime Centre Annual Report 2025–26
Looking back at the National Economic Crime Centre’s work with partners to tackle fraud and illicit finance between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026.
The National Economic Crime Centre Annual Report 2025–26 sets out the NECC’s progress over the past year. It highlights the impact of coordinated action, public-private partnerships and new data-led capabilities in disrupting criminals, protecting victims and preventing economic crime.
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The report shows how the NECC and its partners have:
- disrupted fraud and illicit finance through coordinated national operations
- protected victims through early intervention and the recovery of suspected criminal proceeds
- targeted serious and organised criminals operating in the UK and overseas
- strengthened partnerships with the financial, telecommunications and technology sectors
- developed new approaches to sharing and analysing data
- laid the foundations for the Online Crime Centre
- built international partnerships to tackle fraud at its source
Steve Rodhouse said the year had been an important one for the NECC as it continued to strengthen the UK’s collective response to economic crime.
He highlighted the harm caused by fraud and illicit finance, the operational results delivered by national partnerships and the importance of scaling innovative, data-led capabilities.
“While the threat continues to evolve in scale and sophistication, our response must evolve faster. In the year ahead, we will prioritise scaling data-led approaches, strengthening system coordination, and tackling the highest-harm fraud threats.”
Read Steve Rodhouse’s full foreword
Introduction from Rachael Herbert, Director NECC
“Our ambition remains for the UK to have a world-leading operational response to economic crime. We are dedicated to driving system-level shifts: from reactive to proactive, from fragmented intelligence to fusion, and from compliance-driven activity to a sharper focus on threat and harm.”
Rachael Herbert said the operational highlights demonstrate the breadth of the NECC’s impact, from disrupting criminal networks and protecting victims to tackling high-harm threats in the UK and overseas.
She also set out the NECC’s updated strategic direction, focused on disrupting fraud, disrupting illicit finance and strengthening partnerships across the economic crime system.
“The foundations we have laid this year, through initiatives such as Data Fusion, System Prioritisation and the development of the Online Crime Centre, are critical to that future vision.”
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The report reflects the contribution of organisations across the economic crime system. It also recognises the partner agencies and private-sector organisations that provided funding, expertise and seconded staff to the NECC during 2025–26.
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