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Three members of a criminal network that smuggled more than £100m in illicit cash from the UK to the UAE have been found guilty of money laundering offences – bringing the total number convicted of involvement in the conspiracy to 14.

Seven men have been charged over a plot to import £140m worth of cocaine into the UK.

A man wanted by the National Crime Agency in connection with Operation Stovewood has been arrested in Bulgaria.

Members of a suspected organised crime group from the North West of England have been arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle £140m worth of cocaine into the United Kingdom, as part of a National Crime Agency investigation.

A lorry driver who smuggled migrants for a London-based people smuggling gang has been jailed for two-years-and-eight months.

The UK’s biggest ever investigation into child abuse is to move into a new phase in the next few months, the National Crime Agency has announced.

A man from North Yorkshire has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after National Crime Agency officers recovered indecent images of children from his computers.

A dog used in attempt to bring cocaine worth £800,000 into the UK will be rehomed after her owner was jailed for 6 years and 4 months following an NCA investigation.

A man from Rotherham has been found guilty of nine child sex abuse offences, following an investigation conducted by the National Crime Agency as part of Operation Stovewood.

A West Midlands man who posted videos of himself raping and sexually assaulting a young boy online has been jailed for nearly 12 years.

A 23-year-old woman who took indecent photos of a child and sent them to her boyfriend has been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation.

An Albanian woman has been jailed for seven and a half years after a National Crime Agency investigation found that she had acted as a fixer for people smugglers arranging small boat crossings from France to the UK.

National Crime Agency officers have charged a 60-year-old man from Liverpool with committing numerous breaches of his Serious Crime Prevention Order.

A man has been found guilty of playing a leading role in a network smuggling Vietnamese nationals to the UK in the backs of lorries, following a National Crime Agency investigation.

The final member of a global anabolic steroid manufacture and distribution network has today been ordered to hand over assets worth more than £9.8 million following a financial investigation by the National Crime Agency.

An online fraudster who mocked up images of bank statements to trick teenage girls into sending him intimate photos has been jailed for 30 months.

A lorry driver who was caught trying to smuggle a wanted criminal out of the UK has been jailed for three years.

A man and a woman have been sentenced for supplying materials used to create live ammunition and pistols at an illegal gun factory following a National Crime Agency investigation.

Two men have been jailed after attempting to smuggle 600 kilos of cannabis hidden within crates of broccoli.

An assistant head teacher from Yorkshire has pleaded guilty to making over 11,500 images and videos of child abuse following a National Crime Agency investigation.

The National Crime Agency has issued an alert to financial institutions and other members of the regulated sector warning that Russia is using gold as a means to undermine the impact of the UK sanctions regime.

A career criminal who trafficked drugs and dirty cash between Ireland and the Netherlands has been jailed for 21 years, following a National Crime Agency investigation.

Two British men are in prison after the NCA proved they were part of a secret Europe-wide network whose members travelled the world to sexually abuse children.

A corrupt police employee who illegally accessed sensitive information and tipped-off a criminal friend about a secret, international investigation into serious and organised crime has been jailed.

A former children’s holiday camp manager who groomed more than 70 teenage boys online by pretending to be a 16-year-old girl has been jailed.

Four members of an organised crime group have been jailed after attempting to smuggle 139 kilos of cocaine into the UK hidden in a consignment of bananas.

Cocaine hidden deep within a container ship at Sheerness Port in Kent has been seized as part of a National Crime Agency investigation involving police officers and Border Force.

A man from Scotland who attempted to buy a gun and ammunition online and searched the web for details of a school shooting and primary school holidays has been sentenced.

Four people have been charged as part of a National Crime Agency into a crime group alleged to be involved in smuggling people to the UK using small boats.

A decade after its formation, the National Crime Agency is inviting the public to hear first-hand how NCA specialists have used their world-leading intelligence capabilities, investigative expertise and specialist skills to bring some of the country’s most dangerous criminals to justice.

A man from Manchester who arranged to rape a 12-week-old baby has been sentenced to six years and eight months in prison.

A drugs boss who had a £250,000 watch has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after a National Crime Agency investigation.

Two men and a woman have been arrested by the National Crime Agency as part of an investigation into a crime group alleged to be involved in smuggling people to the UK using small boats.

An IT engineer from Bristol who arranged to meet young girls at an airport hotel so that he could sexually abuse them has been jailed for two years. 


A man who was arrested by the National Crime Agency has been jailed for 11 years for leading a small boats people smuggling network believed to have been involved in smuggling around 10,000 people to the UK.

A National Crime Agency investigation has resulted in a man from Rotherham being convicted of raping and indecently assaulting a teenage girl.

Three members of a Birmingham-based gang supplying class A drugs and sourcing deadly firearms have been sentenced following a National Crime Agency investigation.

A Polish lorry driver has been charged with people smuggling offences, as part of an investigation by the National Crime Agency into an organised crime group suspected of transporting migrants to the UK in HGVs and boats.

A second man has been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into people smuggling across the Channel using a pleasure boat.

The National Crime Agency has begun an investigation following the recovery of a significant quantity of what is thought to be cocaine from the coast of Dorset and Hampshire.

The National Crime Agency marks its 10^th anniversary on Saturday 7 October, and has revealed it is running more than 800 operations into serious and  organised crime groups impacting the United Kingdom.

A Derbyshire man who drove to Suffolk to sexually assault an 11-year-old boy he met online has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.

A man has been charged with people smuggling offences as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the cross-Channel transport of migrants using a pleasure boat.

Two criminals who plotted together on an encrypted communications platform over a sub machine gun and drugs deals have been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation.

An Albanian drug dealer who supplied more than £1million of cocaine in just four months has been jailed after a Right Move advert exposed the location of his illicit business.

National Crime Agency officers investigating the seizure of cocaine worth £6.8 million in Liverpool have made two further arrests in Northern Ireland.

National Crime Agency officers have arrested a man as part of an investigation into the death of a woman who is thought to have died attempting to cross the Channel in a small boat.

A Lithuanian lorry driver has been charged after cocaine worth around £6.8 million was seized as part of an ongoing National Crime Agency investigation.

A science and technology teacher from North Yorkshire who sexually assaulted one of his pupils has been sentenced to more than nine years.