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NCA and NatWest launch campaign to protect against Invoice Fraud in business

The National Crime Agency (NCA) and NatWest Group have today launched a joint campaign aimed at accounts payable professionals and finance personnel that highlights the risks of Invoice Fraud, a crime that costs businesses millions each year.

  • Fraud

OFSI and partners clamp down on the abuse of cryptoassets

Sanctions enablers are increasingly turning to cryptoassets to move and hide illicit funds, including those linked to sanctions evasion.

  • Illicit finance
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Operation Liberterra III: Seven arrested during international crackdown on people smuggling

Seven suspects have been arrested in the United Kingdom as the National Crime Agency collaborated with police and international partners on INTERPOL's largest-ever operation targeting people smuggling and human trafficking.

  • Child sexual exploitation
  • Organised immigration crime
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Five arrested by the NCA in lorry people smuggling investigation

Five people have been arrested and charged as part of a National Crime Agency investigation targeting a suspected organised crime group involved in smuggling migrants out of the UK in lorries.

  • Organised immigration crime

Organised crime groups used UK airport to collect Mexican cocaine

Criminals from two organised crime groups have been convicted over an elaborate plot to fly large amounts of cocaine into a UK airport, following a National Crime Agency investigation.

  • Drug trafficking

NCA helps stop £710m worth of cocaine entering Europe

A semi-submersible vessel carrying nearly nine tonnes of cocaine has been stopped in the Atlantic Ocean thanks in part to work by the National Crime Agency.

  • Drug trafficking

Second arrest in investigation into suspected cross-border people smuggling

A second man has been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into alleged people smuggling from Ireland into the UK.

  • Organised immigration crime
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Man who planned to drug and rape children given life sentence

A man from London, who planned to travel overseas and rape children as young as six, has been jailed for life.

  • Child sexual exploitation
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Logged out: 2025 record year for takedowns as more than 10,000 social media accounts linked to people smuggling are closed

The National Crime Agency led a record year of takedowns of social media accounts linked to organised immigration crime during 2025.

  • Organised immigration crime
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Man sentenced for child sexual abuse offences

A man has been sentenced after admitting a number of sexual offences against children.

  • Child sexual abuse

Man with £4m of cocaine stashed in van is jailed

A driver caught with £4m-worth of cocaine in the back of his van has been jailed for nine years today [16 January], following a joint National Crime Agency (NCA) and police investigation.

  • Drug trafficking

Sex trafficking fugitive arrested by the NCA

A Romanian fugitive wanted for sex trafficking offences has been arrested by the National Crime Agency.

  • Fugitives
Saifur AHMEDZAI and Zeeshan BANGHIS

Fugitive members of small boat people smuggling network who sexually abused migrants are extradited

Two men convicted over their involvement in a major people smuggling ring have been extradited to Belgium following a joint investigation by the National Crime Agency and Belgian police.

  • Organised immigration crime
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Criminal used encrypted messaging to sell firearms and drugs

A man who recorded himself with deadly firearms he was attempting to sell has been sentenced following a National Crime Agency and Police Scotland investigation.

  • Firearms

Former NCA “number one target” jailed for supplying thousands of boats to Channel people smugglers

A man who supplied thousands of boats and engines to people smugglers operating in the English Channel has been jailed, following a joint operation involving the National Crime Agency and Belgian authorities.

  • Organised immigration crime

Drug smuggler’s jail term extended after brazen plot to supply firearms uncovered

A jailed heroin smuggler tried to secure a reduced prison sentence by setting up a firearms supply and planning to inform the National Crime Agency about it.

  • Firearms

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