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A Bristol man has been charged with drug offences following his arrest by National Crime Agency officers investigating the attempted importation of cocaine with a potential street value of around £1.75 million.

The National Crime Agency has obtained a civil recovery order for gold worth an estimated £4 million that was being laundered by South American drug cartels.

A man from Manchester who sexually assaulted two children has been jailed for eight years and six months following a National Crime Agency investigation.

A Czech man involved in the importation of a semi-automatic gun and live ammunition into the UK has been sentenced following a National Crime Agency investigation.

Two crime bosses who supplied fraudulent passports enabling murderers and drug traffickers to evade justice in the UK and cross international borders have been convicted.

A criminal who went on the run for eight years over his role in a large-scale international drug trafficking plot has been jailed for 12 years.

A drugs boss who boasted he could make £30,000 a week and specialised in adulterating cocaine for organised crime groups across the country has been jailed for 19 years and six months.

A Lincolnshire man who raped and sexually assaulted children as young as seven over a 23-year period has been jailed for 25 years.

A fifth man has been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a group alleged to have smuggled migrants from Belgium to the UK in boats.

Five members of an organised crime group have been found guilty of smuggling migrants into the UK in the back of a refrigerated lorry through Portsmouth port.

Two US nationals who attempted to bring suitcases full of cannabis into the UK through Heathrow airport have been handed jail sentences.

Ten members of a network who laundered £70m for organised criminals have now been sentenced.

A 45-year old man from North London has been charged with fraud offences that allowed him to operate under multiple identities and open bank accounts.

A pair of Essex drug dealers who used encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to run their criminal enterprise have been jailed for more than 25 years.

National Crime Agency officers are re-iterating a warning to potential drug smugglers after three US nationals were jailed for attempting to bring cannabis into the UK.