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- Director General (Strategic Projects): Steve Rodhouse
- Director General (Operations): Rob Jones
- Director General: Graeme Biggar
- Director General (Threats): James Babbage
- Director General (Capabilities) and Chief Operating Officer: Wendy Clark
- Director General (NCA): Lynne Owens CBE QPM MA
- Director General (Capabilities): Nina Cope
- Non-Executive Director: Jane Furniss CBE
- Non-Executive Director: Nicholas Alston CBE MA
- Director of Investigations: Nikki Holland
- Non-Executive Director: Reshard Auladin
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- Prolific small boats people smuggling network dismantled as part of international operation
- NCA officers make further arrest over fatal Channel crossing (UPDATED)
- Law enforcement steps up response to modern slavery
- Paramilitary Crime Taskforce launched in Northern Ireland
- Suspicious Activity Reports Regime Annual Report 2017 published
- Joint operation nets Dover firearms haul
- NCA appoints Steve Rodhouse as Director General of Operations
- National Crime Agency officers recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
- Will Kerr to join Police Scotland after NCA secondment
- Update on Dixons Carphone plc cyber incident
- Two men charged after ten kilos of heroin found in boot of car
- National Crime Agency awarded over £8m in fight to tackle serious and organised crime
- NCA statement on contingency planning in relation to UK withdrawal from the European Union
- Nearly 7,000 potential victims of slavery and trafficking reported in 2018
- Fraudsters steal hundreds of thousands of pounds posing as NCA officers
- New national protected persons service starts work
- NCA awarded £2.96 million from the UK’s aid budget to tackle UK transnational child sex offenders
- Hacker from Russian crime group jailed for multi-million pound global blackmail conspiracy
- NCA publishes Annual Plan 2019/20
- NCA Director hosts Angolan Attorney General, cementing co-operative relationship
- Closed case! Plane passenger with £1.5M in baggage ordered to give it up
- Man charged following Norfolk firearms seizure
- Five years in jail and worldwide travel ban for British teacher who wanted to abuse young Filipino children
- Accountant and two bankers jailed for stealing £390k from customers
- NCA investigate 40 people on suspicion of child sex abuse offences
- Two men arrested in Sheffield on suspicion of drugs and firearms offences
- Pair jailed for supplying guns made at Hailsham firearms factory
- Properties worth £2m frozen following PCTF investigation
- Dutch national charged after 35kgs of cocaine found hidden in lorry
- 181,000 UK offenders fuelling “chronic and corrosive” threat from serious and organised crime
- National Economic Crime Centre leads push to identify money laundering activity
- Third conviction for Liverpool man guilty of making indecent images of children
- Hungarian lorry drivers get 20 years for drug smuggling
- Hundreds arrested and more than £310k cash seized as part of national activity targeting County Lines drug gangs
- al-Assad family cash forfeited in London court
- Former associate high school head who used class A drugs while watching online child sex abuse is jailed
- Two charged over Channel Tunnel firearms seizure
- NCA shines light on online CSAE for public inquiry
- NCA secures Unexplained Wealth Orders for prime London property worth tens of millions
- Sweet smuggling sisters sent to slammer
- Two drug dealers found with £2m haul of drugs and £50k cash jailed
- Man found guilty of being part of “world’s most prolific” anabolic steroid smuggling gang
- Six NCA officers recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
- 34 years in prison for duo caught supplying cocaine
- Two men charged following seizure of four firearms in Essex
- Drug traffickers convicted after laundering millions through sham companies
- RAF sergeant and pensioner jailed for involvement in £1m drug dealing ring
- Property worth over £300,000 recovered from alleged Essex drug dealer and fraudster
- NCA leading criminal investigation into Eurofins cyber incident
- Three British nationals arrested in connection with international people smuggling investigation
- Dutch man guilty of importing £134m worth of cocaine
- Barrhead man imported four thousand MDMA tablets in coffee tins
- NCA statement on National Audit Office report on Serious and Organised Crime
- Man with vast child sexual abuse collection photographed children in a park and abused a seven-year-old
- Knocked out: drug traffickers convicted of importing heroin in boxing gloves
- Irish national found guilty of possessing disguised firearm
- Beauty therapist jailed for car boot cocaine haul
- NCA secures first serious organised crime Unexplained Wealth Order for property worth £10 million
- Gold seized by NCA at Heathrow as part of international cartel investigation
- NCA Annual Report 2019 published
- Drug trafficker sentenced after dressing up drugs in childrens clothing
- Updated statement on Lancaster University cyber incident
- NCA secures Unexplained Wealth Order against properties owned by a Northern Irish woman
- New Non-Executive Directors on the NCA Board
- £40m heroin seizure after international operation
- Dozens of arrests in the UK as part of Europe-wide anti-slavery operation
- £100m Account Freezing Orders are largest granted to NCA
- Suspected British criminals arrested in Australia and New Zealand drug bust
- Huge cocaine haul recovered from yacht in Wales
- Retired detective inspector sought images of girls aged 14
- Six arrests and boat seized in investigation into cross-Channel people smuggling
- More than 1,000 children protected in first year of centre tackling County Lines
- Public statement on NCA investigation into suspected EU referendum offences
- Record numbers arrested and hundreds of children protected as County Lines drug networks targeted
- Gun smuggler with 60 firearms in car jailed for nine years
- Joint operation in Northern Ireland nets huge firearms and ammunition haul
- Driver charged after £10m cocaine seizure at Newhaven
- Jail for drugs conspirators despite no drugs being found
- Fraudsters end the year with lighter pockets thanks to the NCA’s asset denial teams
- Slough couple arrested as part of international people smuggling investigation
- Man arrested in Folkestone as part of NCA ecstasy supply investigation
- Midlands man charged following recovery of two semi-automatic pistols
- Intercepted at sea – migrant boat halted as people smuggling network is dismantled
- Fraudsters targeted in new national law enforcement campaign
- Court dismisses UWO appeal by Zamira Hajiyeva
- Multi-agency action targets city money laundering
- European police chiefs back NCA demands for tech companies to do more to prevent child sex abuse
- NCA statement on Professor Dame Carol Black review of drugs
- Alert issued on the illicit finance risks associated with South Sudan
- Five charged after drug trafficking investigation arrests
- National Crime Agency welcomes key report into online child sexual abuse
- National Crime Agency warn that organised crime groups may try to exploit the coronavirus outbreak to target the UK
- Beware fraud and scams during Covid-19 pandemic fraud
- Law enforcement in coronavirus online safety push as National Crime Agency reveals 300,000 in UK pose sexual threat to children
- National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2020
- Annual Plan 2020
- Millions of pounds worth of cocaine seized at Dover
- Coronavirus press conference - 25 April 2020: Director General Lynne Owen's speech
- Two charged after £1m cocaine recovered from port
- Two charged after gun and cocaine seized in London flat
- Arrest on the A2 as part of NCA people smuggling investigation
- Surprise! Fugitive arrested on his birthday after seven years on the run
- Couple charged after shotgun recovered in Ladbroke Grove
- Six arrested and luxury cars seized as part of drugs and money laundering conspiracy
- NCA and police smash thousands of criminal conspiracies after infiltration of encrypted communication platform in UK’s biggest ever law enforcement operation
- Operation Venetic: suspect charged overnight with drugs and firearm supply
- “NCA not fu*@ing about,” say kingpin criminals
- NCA statement on modern slavery allegations in Leicester
- Op Venetic: Birmingham trio charged with drugs and firearms supply
- Investigation recovers more than £300,000 in suspected criminal cash
- Further arrest as part of drugs and money laundering conspiracy
- NCA officers recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
- Drug dealer jailed after shotgun recovered in Ladbroke Grove
- Gun charge - Ballymoney man accused of importing weapon in the post from US
- Three arrests as NCA uncovers million pound cannabis farm in Coventry nightclub
- Iranian who ran payment platform for cyber criminals arrested in UK
- Two Bristol men charged after £400k cocaine seizure
- Arrested by the NCA – man suspected of running cannabis farm network
- Suspected class A drugs recovered in PCTF operation
- PCTF seize NI properties under Proceeds of Crime Act
- Alert issued on the illicit finance risks faced by independent schools
- Haul of cutting agent to make £2.5 million pounds worth of Amphetamine seized in National Crime Agency investigation
- NCA officers arrest two men as part of Operation Stovewood investigations
- Three arrests in international County Lines investigation
- NCA arrest suspect wanted for fatal stabbing in Spain
- NCA’s achievement in protecting the public highlighted with three New Year’s Honours including Damehood for Director General Lynne Owens
- Four charged after NCA raid on Birmingham cash and drugs ‘stash house’
- Public urged to be vigilant as fraudsters target elderly and vulnerable with fake Covid vaccine
- Four men charged after cash and cocaine seizures
- Irish lorry driver held in NCA cross-Channel smuggling investigation
- Over £78 million stolen in 'clone firm' investment scams
- YOU ONLY GET ONE SHOT IN LIFE – DON’T BLOW IT
- Two charged after £1.6m worth of cocaine and cash found in London flat
- NCA concludes pre-investigative review of allegations of fraud by HBOS Impaired Assets Division, London and South-East Region
- Three arrested over alleged supply of boats to cross-Channel people smugglers
- NCA issues warning to maritime industry over organised crime links to small boats
- Gallantry awards for NCA officers who safely detained armed suspects
- Loaded pistol, ammo and cash seized in North London
- Two more arrests in PCTF investigation into South East Antrim UDA
- Online is the new frontline in fight against organised crime– says NCA on publication of annual threat assessment
- NCA investigation launched after Sussex beach drugs find
- Six arrests as part of NCA investigation into NI drugs and money laundering
- Five NCA officers recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
- Bristol man arrested in NCA firearms investigation and gun seized
- DoubleVPN takedown: NCA takes UK server of criminal network offline
- NCA arrest man on suspicion of importing firearms as gun haul is seized in Bangor
- 38 arrested as national law enforcement drive targets child traffickers
- Eight arrested in Greece as Project Invigor targets major international people smuggling network
- NCA warns furloughed port and airport workers could be exploited by organised criminal groups
- Self-loading pistol and ammunition seized on motorway
- Online child sex offender was customer of notorious paedophile and blackmailer
- Smuggler who hid 138kg of cannabis in coconuts jailed
- Durham-based property developer hands over £850,000 of alleged criminal profits
- Graduate jailed for terrorising six women in online abuse campaign
- More than two tonnes of cocaine seized and six arrested after swoop on luxury yacht
- UPDATE: Birmingham people smuggling arrest – man charged
- Driver who hid £4m worth of cocaine in his bed jailed for 14 and a half years
- Dame Lynne Owens announces her retirement as Director General of the National Crime Agency
- Six charged with offences as part of major Kurdish people smuggling network investigation
- Five suspects arrested in operation linked to recovery of £190m of cocaine at sea
- Taxi drivers suspected of links to Vietnamese people smuggling crime group arrested
- West Midlands van driver charged over £7 million cocaine and heroin haul in Dover
- NCA and EUROPOL sign up to a new working arrangement
- Graeme Biggar appointed Director General of the National Crime Agency
- NI man arrested by the NCA as part of international people smuggling investigation
- Three men jailed for 29 years over gun and ammunition plot
- Gang leader who bragged of smuggling more than 100 women into UK jailed for 10 years
- UPDATE CHARGES: Criminal passport supply gang smashed in early morning NCA raids
- Operation Venetic: Two men arrested in investigation linked to the recovery of £1.6m in cash
- Jailed: Paedophile who sought out jobs where he’d have access to children
- Cocaine worth 200million euros seized from sailing yacht off the coast of Portugal
- House buyers and businesses warned of payment diversion fraud
- International operation targets dark web drugs marketplace
- Rob Jones appointed Director General of the National Economic Crime Centre
- Essex lorry deaths: Court orders extradition of people smuggling suspect wanted in Belgium
- Cocaine and cash in van lands Barnsley man with 2 year 8 month jail sentence
- People smugglers use ever more dangerous boats to attempt Channel crossings as NCA issue international alert
- 1.2 tonnes of cocaine seized and seven men charged after major NCA-led drugs and corruption operation at port
- NCA officers recognised in Queen’s New Year’s Honours
- Rise in school cyber crime attacks sparks NCA education drive
- Twelve fugitives revealed in new Most Wanted campaign
- £5 million Sheerness cocaine seizure sparks NCA investigation
- Operation Stovewood: Investigators launch new appeal for victims and witnesses to come forward
- Suspected firearms conversion factory discovered in East Sussex
- More under 20s sexually assaulted after meeting offenders on dating sites
- NCA renews appeal to maritime industry over criminal targeting
- New reporting regime for online child sexual abuse content announced
- UK head of Kinahan crime group jailed for 21 years
- Hacking forum taken offline and UK suspect arrested
- Man charged over £4.5 million Harpenden drug seizure
- Organised Crime Partnership (Scotland) make drug and money laundering arrests
- Former Dublin airport policeman became ‘serial money launderer’ for criminal gangs
- Life sentence for man who raped a baby and shared images of his abuse
- Annual Plan 2022-23
- Birmingham Airport drug smuggler lands nine year sentence after being caught with heroin haul
- Almost £30m of Class A drugs seized in just 12 months by Merseyside Organised Crime Partnership
- NCA leads international coalition tackling child sexual abuse
- The Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022: Seven NCA officers recognised
- Five arrested in National Crime Agency modern slavery investigation
- Arrests in France in connection with Channel small boat deaths
- NCA targets suspected small boat people smuggling networks in ongoing international operation
- NCA arrests linked to West Yorkshire drug supply
- NCA and OFSI issue red alert with private sector on financial sanctions evasion typologies by Russian elites and enablers
- NCA targets crime group suspected of making specialist concealments for drugs after cocaine seized at Heathrow
- Graeme Biggar CBE appointed Director General of the National Crime Agency
- NCA mourns the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- Alleged ‘money man’ for Kinahan organised crime network arrested
- Albanian people smuggling network who shipped migrants to the UK from Spain dismantled
- NCA responds to final report by Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)
- NCA supports international operation to dismantle European drugs network
- Wealthy Russian businessman arrested on suspicion of multiple offences
- Man suspected of pleasure boat people smuggling attempt arrested in NCA investigations
- NCA plays crucial role in huge Atlantic cocaine seizure
- NCA statement on English Channel deaths investigation
- NCA investigates after series of smuggling attempts from Los Angeles
- NCA issues warning after further arrests made from Los Angeles-London flights
- Suspicious Activity Report (SARs) Annual Report 2022
- NCA targets crime group suspected of operating slave labour cannabis farms
- HIVE takedown: NCA in international operation to shut down $100m ransomware threat
- Six convicted in France over small boat migrant smuggling network
- Three arrested in suspected PPE fraud worth millions
- Ransomware criminals sanctioned in joint UK/US crackdown on international cyber crime
- Seven arrested, six to go – NCA launches renewed appeal to trace Most Wanted fugitives
- Fraud targeted thousands across UK and abroad
- North West group arrested in suspected property fraud where victims lost life savings
- Gold shipment forfeited after NCA links it to drug cartels
- Bristol man charged over attempted drug importation
- Operation Henhouse: Hundreds of arrests and millions in assets seized in month tackling fraud
- Joint International Crime Centre launches
- Notorious criminal marketplace selling victim identities taken down in international operation
- Global law enforcement coalition urges tech companies to rethink encryption plans that put children in danger from online abusers
- NCA and social media companies work together to tackle organised immigration crime
- NCA investigates land in Co Armagh suspected of being purchased with fraud money
- £38.8m worth of heroin recovered from cover load of pomegranate juice
- NCA freezes holiday home linked to South East Antrim UDA
- More than 700 firearms recovered in ground-breaking NCA-led operation
- Director General Graeme Biggar launches National Strategic Assessment
- Wanted: Money launderer who ran professional services for organised crime groups
- NCA publishes updated list of restrictions imposed on convicted criminals
- Man arrested over seizure of 250 kilos of cannabis
- Increased prison terms for crime bosses who supplied fraudulent passports to UK criminals
- Op Venetic: Drug supply ringleaders sentenced after EncroChat takedown
- Dutch financial crime agency to join International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre
- Trio of drug suppliers jailed after cocaine exchange
- Arrest made in Channel death investigation
- National Crime Agency running more than 800 operations as it reaches 10th anniversary
- NCA investigation launched after drugs found off south coast of England
- Three arrested in NCA investigation into small boats “agent”
- New NCA podcast released which unearths the murky world of serious and organised crime
- £10m buried in ship’s hull seized at Sheerness
- DG NCA Graeme Biggar delivers RUSI's 4th Annual Security Lecture
- People smuggling fixer jailed for brokering dangerous small boat Channel crossings
- Hull woman sentenced for taking indecent images of a child
- Operation Stovewood to move into new phase in 2024
- Suspected organised crime group arrested over 1.3 tonnes of cocaine worth £140m
- Man wanted over Rotherham abuse allegations arrested in Bulgaria
- Director General delivers keynote speech at the RUSI SOC Conference
- UK warns of Russia attempting to circumvent sanctions to purchase restricted goods and services
- NCA cyber investigation leads to sanctions for hostile actors linked to Russia's FSB
- National Crime Agency calls on parents to help young people recognise the signs of money muling
- NCA issues warning after cannabis arrests made at Birmingham airport
- Husband and wife arrested over alleged airline crew smuggling plot
- UK warns of criminal sanctions evasion through artwork storage facilities
- Man arrested in National Crime Agency people smuggling investigation
- NCA makes two more arrests in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire over £2.3m Channel Tunnel cocaine seizure
- NCA publishes updated list of restrictions on serious offenders
- One in five children found to engage in illegal activity online
- NCA recovers land in Co Armagh suspected of having been purchased with money derived from fraud and money laundering in England
- International investigation disrupts the world’s most harmful cyber crime group
- NCA and Border Force make record breaking 5.7 tonne cocaine seizure
- Suspected leader of Kurdish people smuggling network arrested in Portsmouth
- Operation Henhouse: over 400 arrests and £19m seized in national campaign tackling fraud
- UK arrest in €645 million international investment scam
- Four arrested on suspicion of smuggling money from UK to Albania
- European police chiefs call for end-to-end encryption roll out to include public protection measures
- Four arrested in UK in joint NCA-French operation targeting alleged Vietnamese Facebook people smugglers
- NCA issues urgent warning about ‘sextortion’
- Arrest made in NCA small boat crossings investigation
- Four arrested after half a tonne of cocaine seized
- LockBit leader unmasked and sanctioned
- NCA secures first Unexplained Wealth Order in Northern Ireland
- NCA uncovers corrupt officials who helped wanted criminals to circumvent international Red Notice system
- Firearms trainers dismissed after internal investigation
- Chemicals used in manufacture of illegal drugs seized in Liverpool
- National Crime Agency leads international operation to degrade illegal versions of Cobalt Strike
- NCA and partners target OCG smuggling people into the UK in ships
- Three Brits arrested and 36 guns seized in Spanish raid
- NCA recovers £5.8m linked to an international money laundering network
- Brits arrested in major international investigation into 1.5 tonne cocaine importation
- NCA infiltrates world's most prolific DDoS-for-hire service
- 12,000 takedowns as NCA leads blitz on people smugglers' social media accounts
- People smuggler who arranged spaces on Channel boat crossings jailed following NCA investigation
- Ground breaking public private partnership launched to identify criminality using banking data
- Arrest follows fatal Channel crossing
- 22 years for prolific people smugglers
- There has never been a more dangerous time to take drugs, says NCA as annual threat assessment is published
- It’s not worth the risk – jail warning for passengers flying to the UK after increase in cannabis arrests
- NCA publishes updated list of restrictions on serious offenders
- Amnesty to be held for blank firing guns popular with organised criminals
- Arrests following £5 million cannabis haul at Birmingham Airport
- NCA marks end of term as Chair of Virtual Global Taskforce
- Nine NCA arrests during major international operation targeting people smuggling
- Four arrested over significant cocaine haul in Kent
- Six arrested after multi-million pound Birmingham Airport drug seizure
- NCA arrest man in Wolverhampton as part of operation to take down Europe-wide people smuggling gang
- Suspected members of people smuggling network arrested in NCA dawn raids across London
- Operation Destabilise: NCA disrupts $multi-billion Russian money laundering networks with links to, drugs, ransomware and espionage, resulting in 84 arrests
- UK, France and Germany target network involved in dangerous Channel boat crossings
- National Crime Agency helps deliver international operation to dismantle cyber crime sites
- Twenty firearms seized from suspected gun factory
- Operation Venetic: Leeds-based cocaine and amphetamine production ring dismantled
- Pair jailed for attempt to import a pistol from Florida
- Operation Stovewood: Men found guilty of raping girls at parties
- A prison break, a £190m cocaine plot & money laundered through gold – two jailed in latest NCA Operation Venetic case
- Operation Henhouse: 433 arrests and £7.5m seized in national crackdown on fraud
- National Crime Agency launches online campaign to tackle 'sextortion' among young teenage boys
- Sadistic online harm groups putting people at unprecedented risk, warns the NCA
- Dark web site taken offline as information on 63 users passed to UK forces
- Operation Machinize: Hundreds of barbershops targeted in NCA-coordinated crackdown
- UK's first INTERPOL Silver Notice secured against fraudster
- NCA and BPOL target Channel small boat suppliers
- Six arrested following joint NCA and Police Scotland drugs operation
- Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods
- Major scam centre targeted after international operation
- Two arrested by the NCA in illegal immigration investigation
- 11,500 UK companies struck off Companies House register after crackdown
- 10 Year Anniversary of the UK's Public Private Partnerships
- NCA and FCA publish priorities to combat biggest economic crime threats
- Operation Venetic: Drugs supplier jailed after being identified from messages about musician father
- NCA works with Bulgarian partners to make major seizure of small boats
- Four arrested by NCA suspected of picking up drugs dropped off the coast
- Statement on the National Crime Agency’s adoption of South Yorkshire child sexual abuse investigation
- Arrest made in cross-Channel boat supply investigation
- Suspected people smuggler arrested in Coventry
- Alleged member of people smuggling network arrested by NCA in Kent
- Man suspected of people smuggling links arrested in the West Midlands
- New amnesty announced for Italian-made blank firing guns to be surrendered
- Arrests as NCA uncovers cannabis farm and drugs supply network in the West Midlands
- Man arrested over money laundering allegations linked to mini-markets
- Man arrested over people smuggling social media posts
- National Crime Agency to chair international Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group
- Ketamine worth estimated £17m seized in Merseyside
- UK arrest following aerospace cyber incident
- NCA and The Law Society launch campaign to protect against Payment Diversion Fraud in property sales
- Paedophile posed as teenage boy to sexually abuse children online
- Two arrested in NI in NCA money laundering investigation
- Man guilty of planning to rape children as young as six
- International law enforcement group set up to go after world’s most dangerous drugs traffickers
- Lorry driver was ‘disappointed’ to only be smuggling 29kg of heroin
- Three men arrested over £20m cocaine seizure
- Jailed: Driver caught with one of the largest hauls of ketamine
- Three men charged and remanded over 203kg cocaine seizure
- Border Force officer charged after 25kg heroin seized
- Brother of “the best smuggler” jailed for being part of international people smuggling network
- Eighth arrest in cocaine smuggling investigation, following 28-mile chase across the sea
- Pair charged after armed officers seize gun and ammunition from vehicle
- Charges following £13.8 million cannabis haul at Birmingham Airport
- Albanian man admits supplying cocaine
- Operation Beaconport: Hundreds of child abuse cases under review to prioritise victim and survivor voices
- Cannabis smuggler who hid drugs in work bench foiled by sniffer dog
- NCA warning as lorry drivers are targeted for recruitment by people smuggling gangs
- Two more charged in relation to at sea drop off collection of 322 kilos of cocaine
- Operation Venetic: Liverpool drug dealer jailed over deals worth more than £3m in two months
- Former soldier arrested in connection to Kenya murder investigation
- Dinosaur bones forfeited to settle Unexplained Wealth Order case
- NCA launch first ever campaign to protect men against Crypto Investment Fraud
- Operation Machinize 2: Thousands of businesses targeted in coordinated crackdown on high street crime
- Operation Stovewood: Man jailed for raping girl
- NCA leads unprecedented intensification with international partners targeting the supply of boats and engines destined for people smugglers
- Operation Venetic: ‘Teflon’ drugs boss ordered to pay back £1.1m
- Group sentenced for at sea drop off collection of 322 kilos of cocaine worth £26.5 million
- Operation Venetic: Two wanted men arrested in Colombia following National Crime Agency investigation
- Document forger and drug smuggler among names added as NCA publishes updated list of ancillary orders to restrict serious criminals
- Suspected people smuggler wanted in Germany arrested by the NCA in Manchester
- Prolific bulletproof hosting service sanctioned by the UK and allies
- Operation Destabilise: NCA exposes billion-dollar money laundering network that purchased bank to fund Russian war effort
- Man charged with immigration offences over suspected cross-border people smuggling
- Operation Venetic: Kent man jailed for cocaine supply
- Com moderator sentenced for role in sadistic chat group
- Father and son sentenced for part in massive heroin shipment worth over £20 million
- Suspected child rapist wanted in France arrested by the NCA in Liverpool
- Drivers jailed for cross-Channel people smuggling attempts
- Heroin smuggler tried to ‘pull the wool over jury’s eyes’ with jumper defence
- Brighton class A drug supplier jailed after NCA arrest
- Man accessed livestreams of children being abused in Philippines
- Man who stockpiled over 43,000 indecent images of children sentenced to three and a half years
- Operation Venetic: Crime group member admits role in North East England cocaine plot
- Arrest made in ‘people smuggling adverts’ investigation
- Operation Stovewood: Two men who raped girl 25 years ago are jailed
- 21 years and six months behind bars for woman with 85kg of Pakistani heroin in her bedroom
- New Year Honours: King awards eight National Crime Agency officers
- Drug smuggler’s jail term extended after brazen plot to supply firearms uncovered
- Former NCA “number one target” jailed for supplying thousands of boats to Channel people smugglers
- Criminal used encrypted messaging to sell firearms and drugs
- Fugitive members of small boat people smuggling network who sexually abused migrants are extradited
- Sex trafficking fugitive arrested by the NCA
- Man with £4m of cocaine stashed in van is jailed
- Man sentenced for child sexual abuse offences
- Logged out: 2025 record year for takedowns as more than 10,000 social media accounts linked to people smuggling are closed
- Man who planned to drug and rape children given life sentence
- Second arrest in investigation into suspected cross-border people smuggling
- NCA helps stop £710m worth of cocaine entering Europe
- Organised crime groups used UK airport to collect Mexican cocaine
- Five arrested by the NCA in lorry people smuggling investigation
- Operation Liberterra III: Seven arrested during international crackdown on people smuggling
- OFSI and partners clamp down on the abuse of cryptoassets
- NCA and NatWest launch campaign to protect against Invoice Fraud in business
- Operation Venetic: 75 years in jail for three drugs and firearms offenders
- Op Venetic: Former footballer jailed for drug deals worth half a million
- Sixth man charged over alleged people smuggling plot
- Man charged after seizure of 55 loaded handguns with hundreds of rounds of ammunition
- Student who attempted to scam university applicants out of nearly £50k jailed
- 24/7 cocaine gang jailed after offering discount to celebrate release of Premier League footballer’s kidnapped father
- Suspected people smuggler arrested and charged in joint operation
- Man wanted over fatal small boat crossing arrested by NCA
- Five arrested in National Crime Agency people smuggling investigation
- Operation Stovewood: Man guilty of raping woman and child 20 years ago
- Man sentenced for running multiple online child abuse chat groups
- Child sexual abuse is increasing in severity, complexity and accessibility, say policing leads
- Operation Stovewood: 50th person to be convicted is jailed for raping woman and child
- Fraudsters arrested in Nigeria following NCA intelligence sharing
- Man charged as part of National Crime Agency firearms investigation
- Lake District armourer who planned industrial supply of crystal meth jailed for more than 22 years
- People smugglers who arranged HGV transport for migrants are convicted
- Prolific people smuggler brought down after NCA investigation
- Four charged as part of investigation into fraudulent Covid 19 vaccination records
- Drug dealer jailed after being caught with loaded gun and 36k cash
- Family sentenced after fraudulent Bounce Back Loan applications totalling £150,000
- NCA recovers property from former Lord Mayor of Leeds
- Woman jailed for nine years for smuggling arsenal of military grade weapons
- Fraud Strategy supports National Crime Agency’s commitment in fight against fraud
- Operation Stovewood: Three brothers guilty of string of sex crimes in the 2000s
- Jail for people smugglers who ran ‘VIP ferry service’ for migrants
- "Gun-obsessed" doomsday prepper caught with firearm and ammunition
- Mother and son sentenced after attempting to smuggle 14 kilos of cocaine
- Taxi drivers sentenced for helping smuggle illegal migrants to France
- Murderer led scheme from behind bars to help drug traffickers walk free
- Operation ATLANTIC
- NCA launches the National Strategic Assessment 2026
- Third man charged in large cocaine seizure investigation
- Smugglers who were part of a vast drugs supply network sentenced
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