Two east London criminals who arranged for migrants to be smuggled into the UK using lorries and small aircraft have been convicted, following a major eight-year investigation by the National Crime Agency into the activities of a significant Albanian organised crime syndicate.
Two men who attempted to smuggle 39 migrants out of the UK in the back of a refrigerated lorry have been jailed for 12 years.
A seaside holiday home believed to have been purchased with the proceeds of fraud and money laundering has been seized and recovered by the National Crime Agency as part of a civil recovery investigation under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Ten firearms have been recovered and a man charged in a National Crime Agency investigation into the conversion of blank firing weapons.
A man suspected of being a significant figure in a Kurdish organised crime group involved in smuggling people to the UK in boats and HGVs has been arrested by the National Crime Agency.
A man has appeared in court charged with the rape and attempted rape of a 15-year-old girl in Rotherham in 2005, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency’s Operation Stovewood.
A corrupt cruise worker transported more than £2m worth of cocaine on his boat and then lowered it overboard to accomplices.
A 50-year-old man has been jailed for six years after a National Crime Agency investigation identified him as the‘Global Moderator’ of a dark website dedicated to the sharing of child sexual abuse material.
A doctor employed at a Warwickshire hospital has been convicted of downloading/accessing child abuse material after a National Crime Agency investigation.
A third individual has been convicted for his part in an organised crime group linked to the smuggling of migrants into the UK by lorry.
The National Crime Agency and Border Force have made what is believed to be the biggest ever seizure of class A drugs in the UK.
A drugs boss who was jailed for 19 years after boasting he could make £30k a week adulterating cocaine has been forced to hand over assets totalling almost £400,000.
Ketamine with an estimated street value of £1.4 million has been recovered from a fishing boat in Suffolk and five men have been arrested after a National Crime Agency investigation.
A senior figure in an organised crime group responsible for running cannabis farms in Scotland has been jailed, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency and Police Scotland.
The former Chief of Staff to the President of Madagascar has been found guilty of bribery following a fast-paced covert investigation by the National Crime Agency.
The National Crime Agency is today, Tuesday 20 February, revealing details of an international disruption campaign targeting LockBit, the world’s most harmful cyber crime group.
Two men have been charged as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a group alleged to have moved more than 500 illegal migrants through Europe.
A man from Sussex who was the assistant moderator of a site dedicated to child sexual abuse on the dark web has been jailed for five years and four months.
National Crime Agency officers have recovered a plot of land in County Armagh as part of a civil recovery investigation.
A former professional footballer who ran a drug and gun importation operation with his brother has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after a National Crime Agency investigation.
The National Crime Agency is calling on parents and teachers to help young people understand the implications of their behaviour online, raising concerns about the rise in cyber crime.
A mechanic from Cheshire who created and moderated sites dedicated to child sexual abuse on the dark web has been jailed for 16 years.
The National Crime Agency has published a list of active ancillary orders, used to support the lifetime management of serious criminals and prevent future offending.
National Crime Agency officers have arrested two men in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire in connection with the attempted importation of cocaine with an estimated street value of £2.3 million.
A former sports coach from Portsmouth who supplied videos of naked swimming pupils to an Australian paedophile has been jailed.
A man from Sudan has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after a National Crime Agency investigation into people smuggling.
A man from Paraguay has been sentenced after attempting to import cocaine into the UK.
A married couple have been convicted of exporting more than half a tonne of cocaine to Australia, after a National Crime Agency investigation found they were behind a front company that had sent the drugs by plane under a cover load of metal toolboxes.
A Russian HGV driver has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to smuggling migrants from the UK to France.
The head of a multi-million-dollar drug enterprise has pleaded guilty to supplying hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs on a global scale.
A man from Kent has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to directing the sexual abuse of young children around the world.
A 24 year-old man has been arrested following a National Crime Agency investigation into organised people smuggling.
A man investigated by the National Crime Agency for laundering money made by people smuggling networks involved in small boats crossings has been jailed for eight years.
A couple who tricked victims into sending hundreds of thousands of pounds in a romance fraud and laundered cash from others have been sentenced.
The National Crime Agency has issued an alert to artwork storage facilities, warning of potential criminal exploitation of the sector by individuals subject to Russia sanctions.
A man from Swindon has pleaded guilty to being a ‘Global Moderator’ on a dark website dedicated to the sharing of child sexual abuse content.
A ‘pupil’ of one of the most dangerous sexual predators ever investigated by the National Crime Agency has been jailed for 24 years for committing dozens of blackmail and online sex offences.
A border officer who shared sensitive intelligence documents with incarcerated criminals has been given a suspended jail sentence.
A man who laundered money for people smuggling networks involved in small boats crossings has been found guilty, following a National Crime Agency investigation.
Two men from London have become the fifteenth and sixteenth members of a £100m+ money laundering network to be convicted, following a major National Crime Agency investigation into cash smuggling from the UK to the UAE.
A couple have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into cash smuggling and corruption involving airline employees.
Two cocaine dealers – one of whom also hid £100,000 in cash inside a flat – have been jailed for a total of almost eight years.
A Lithuanian lorry driver has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after attempting to import cocaine worth £4.8 million into the UK.
National Crime Agency investigators have launched an appeal to help trace a man wanted as part of a drugs investigation.
A fugitive wanted by the National Crime Agency in connection with drug smuggling and distribution in the UK has been arrested in southern Spain.
National Crime Agency officers have charged a 58-year-old woman from Wolverhampton with drug smuggling offences following a seizure at Heathrow Airport.
A teenager from London has been sentenced after conducting an online campaign of stalking and harassment against female internet users.
A woman has been charged as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the smuggling of tens of millions of pounds in criminal cash between the UK and the United Arab Emirates.
Three British nationals have been arrested as part of an international operation against drug trafficking across the Atlantic, which has seen around 1.2 tonnes of cocaine seized from a boat.
A man from London has been sentenced to over seven years in prison for sexually abusing young boys in Morocco.