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A former fire fighter who bought guns, ammunition and pepper spray over the internet has been jailed following an investigation by the National Crime Agency.

Millions of pounds derived from the Azerbaijan laundromat – a sophisticated international money laundering scheme – have been seized following a National Crime Agency investigation into money held in bank accounts linked to an Azeri politician.

A man from Weston-super-Mare believed to have used encrypted communications platform EncroChat to distribute class A drugs across the South West is one of the UK’s most wanted fugitives.

The National Crime Agency has obtained a forfeiture order for 15 gold bars worth £650,000 that are linked to an international money laundering network.

National Crime Agency officers have launched a new appeal for potential victims to come forward as part of Operation Stovewood - their investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse in and around Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.

National Crime Agency officers working as part of the Paramilitary Crime Task Force (PCTF) have seized two properties with a combined value of £150,000 from a man with alleged links to the West Belfast Ulster Defence Association.

The family of two brothers convicted of drug trafficking and money laundering have agreed to hand over £530,000 to settle civil recovery claim brought by the NCA.

A man from Canada has been charged with attempting to smuggle around 40 kilos of cannabis into Edinburgh Airport.

A suspected drug trafficker has been arrested just a day after he was named as one of the UK’s Most Wanted.

A Vietnamese man who was the ringleader of a gang involved in transporting some of the 39 migrants found dead in a lorry in Essex in 2019 has been jailed by a Belgian court, following an investigation that was supported by the National Crime Agency.

A lorry driver has been jailed for nine years after attempting to smuggle cocaine worth £2.1 million into the UK in his truck.

National Crime Agency officers are investigating after a seizure of cocaine worth approximately £5 million at Sheerness port in Kent.

Update: five fugitives from the Most Wanted list have been arrested since the campaign was launched in January.

An international investigation involving the National Crime Agency has led to the takedown of LabVPN – a service used by cyber-criminals to facilitate their illicit activities.

A new initiative to divert young people away from criminality has been  launched after cyber attacks designed to block access to schools’ networks or websites more than doubled during the Covid-19 pandemic.