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On 11th July 2024 the NCA obtained a Recovery Order over funds totalling £1,079,000 from bank accounts argued to have been used as part of an international money laundering network. 

Three British nationals have been arrested and 36 firearms seized as part of joint Spanish National Police and National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

The National Crime Agency has worked with partners to target and successfully disrupt an organised crime group suspected of using shipping to smuggle people into the UK illegally.

The National Crime Agency has coordinated global action against illicit software which has been used by cybercriminals for over a decade to infiltrate victims’ IT systems and conduct attacks.

On the evening of Thursday 27/06/24 officers from the Merseyside Organised Crime Partnership seized a parked van in the Waterloo Road area of Liverpool.

The National Crime Agency has dismissed five officers for gross misconduct after an internal investigation.

Four people have been detained in Moldova in relation to a suspected corruption scheme to bribe officials in Moldova and elsewhere for wanted persons to avoid detection by Red Notices published by INTERPOL.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has secured the first Unexplained Wealth Order in Northern Ireland against a man suspected of involvement in serious organised crime.

A leader of what was once the world’s most harmful cyber crime group has been unmasked and sanctioned by the UK, US and Australia, following a National Crime Agency-led international disruption campaign.

Four men have been arrested by National Crime Agency officers investigating the attempted importation of cocaine with a potential street value of around £40 million.

National Crime Agency officers have today (5 May) arrested a man as part of an investigation into an organised crime network suspected of organising cross-Channel small boat crossings.

UPDATE - A man arrested by National Crime Agency officers yesterday in connection with a Channel boat crossing which resulted in the deaths of five people on a French beach has been charged.

The National Crime Agency has issued an alert to hundreds of thousands of education professionals following a considerable increase in global cases of financially motivated sexual extortion – a type of online blackmail widely known as ‘sextortion’.

Four Vietnamese nationals have been arrested by the National Crime Agency in Deptford, Croydon and Leicester as part of a major joint UK-French investigation into alleged small boats people smugglers advertising crossings on Facebook.

The Director General of the National Crime Agency and European Police Chiefs are calling for industry and governments to take urgent action to ensure public safety across technology platforms.