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A day of action by National Economic Crime Centre partners will target money service businesses (MSB) at risk of being used by criminals to launder money.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Zamira Hajiyeva – the wife of jailed Azerbaijani banker Jahangir Hajiyev – to discharge the Unexplained Wealth Order made against her by the National Crime Agency.

The National Economic Crime Centre in collaboration with City of London Police are spearheading a campaign targeting fraudsters responsible for duping members of the public and businesses out of billions of pounds.

The National Crime Agency-led UK organised immigration crime taskforce Project Invigor has played a key role in bringing down an organised crime group responsible for smuggling migrants through Greece.

A man has been charged after a National Crime Agency investigation into the discovery of two semi-automatic pistols in the fast parcel system.

On Saturday 25 January officers from the NCA’s Anti-Corruption Unit arrested a 40-year-old man at a location in Folkestone, on suspicion of supplying class A drugs and misconduct in a public office.

Two people have been arrested in Slough by National Crime Agency officers as part of an international investigation into people smuggling.

This month the National Crime Agency has clawed back millions of dollars from a fraud involving 700 victims.

Two members of an organised crime group have been jailed for conspiring to distribute 182.5kg of drugs – despite no drugs ever being found.

A man from Berkshire has been charged by National Crime Agency investigators following a seizure of almost 100 kilos of cocaine at Newhaven port in East Sussex.

Twenty-four firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been seized in a joint operation between the National Crime Agency and the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

A man has been jailed for nine years after admitting smuggling 60 guns into the country in his car, as part of a National Crime Agency investigation.

County Lines drug networks have been targeted in a week of coordinated law enforcement activity across the UK.

The Electoral Commission investigation focused on loans totalling £8m provided to Better for the Country Ltd and Leave.EU.

The national centre to coordinate law enforcement activity to tackle County Lines has, in its first year of operation, protected more than 1,000 children from being exploited by drug gangs.