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UK policing watchdog finds National Crime Agency heavily reliant on weak legacy systems

An independent audit reveals unfit for purpose tech in the NCA.

TechRadar

London woman, 49, arrested over supply of boats to cross-Channel people smugglers

Lydia Bloomfield, of the National Crime Agency, said: ‘We are determined to target, disrupt and dismantle the gangs’

Evening Standard

Yvette Cooper pours extra £100m into efforts to smash people-smuggling gangs

The funding will pay for up to 300 more National Crime Agency officers and new technology and equipment to step up intelligence-gathering on smuggling gangs

The Independent UK

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Chinese national accused of money laundering forfeits £16.7m and seven London flats

Shijie Song denied engaging in any wrongdoing, the National Crime Agency said

Evening Standard

National Crime Agency officer jailed for stealing £4.4m worth of seized bitcoin

Paul Chowles, 42, stole the proceeds of an online illegal drugs market and laundered the money on the dark web

The Guardian - UK

Former National Crime Agency officer stole bitcoin from dark web drug dealer

The former intelligence officer stole 50 Bitcoin before sending it to a cryptocurrency ‘mixing’ service

The Independent UK

Four arrested after dawn raids targeting suspected people smugglers

The group are accused of advertising illegal lorry crossings from France on social media and moving migrants from HGV stops in Kent to London.

The Independent UK

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Inside London raids targeting ‘people smuggling gang' as four arrested

Met Police, Home Office and NCA storm homes and cafes believed to be used by smuggling gang who advertised illegal crossings to the UK on social media

Evening Standard

East London 'master forgers' who made £1 million supplying fake IDs to criminals jailed for six years

Bilal Iqbal and Ummad Ahmed sold more than 40,000 fake documents over an eight-year period

Evening Standard

Former civil servant, 25, denies lying about being GCHQ intelligence analyst

Ifthikhar Alam is also charged with fraud over allegedly lying about being the Cabinet Office’s ‘Head of Western Balkans’.

Evening Standard

Supermarket worker caught trying to smuggle £1m cash in suitcases out of Heathrow Airport

Mazen Al Shaar, 48, was about to fly to Beirut when intercepted by Border Force officers

Evening Standard

Teenage boys are targeting girls online for sexual abuse and violence, warns National Crime Agency

Reports have surged in the last three years of gangs of boys sharing extreme violence pictures and misogynistic online

Evening Standard

Threat from teenage boys in ‘sadistic’ online groups surges sixfold, National Crime Agency warns

Intelligence shows a rise in ‘com networks’ used by ‘young men who are motivated by status, power, control, misogyny, sexual gratification or an obsession with extreme or violent material’

The Independent UK

Knightsbridge mansion and golf course forfeited from wife of ‘McMafia’ banker selling for £19.5m

National Crime Agency say Zamira Hajiyeva’s properties were bought as a ‘direct result of large-scale fraud and and money laundering’

Evening Standard

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Suspected people smugglers arrested in London and set to be extradited to France

Albanian Lulzim Brahaj, 47 and Iraqi Rebin Sharif, 25, were tracked down by National Crime Agency investigators and arrested in London

The National (Scotland)

Three arrested after 'largest ever seizure' of drugs at Aberdeen Airport

Three men have been arrested after border guards at Aberdeen Airport seized drugs hidden in suitcases worth an estimated £1 million.

The Independent UK

Two men who smuggled half a tonne of cocaine into UK jailed

Men caught after being spotted shining torch out to sea while smuggling 524kg of cocaine on an inflatable boat

Evening Standard

Suspects arrested in international operation targeting people-smuggling gang

The operation targeted an Iraqi organised crime group suspected of smuggling people across the Channel to the UK, the National Crime Agency said.

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The Independent UK

Multibillion-dollar money laundering system used by criminals and spies exposed

The secretive Russian network allowed UK drug dealers and foreign hackers to hide the source of their money earned through crime

The Independent UK

Moment police unravel Britain’s biggest-ever drugs ring

National Crime Agency (NGA) officers have thwarted what they described as Britain’s biggest-ever detected drug conspiracy in the country’s longest-ever-running criminal trial.

The Independent UK

£7 billion UK drug operation foiled when smuggler left his van to go drinking in Amsterdam

Investigators bring down drug smuggling empire run by gangster Paul Green, known as ‘The Big Fella’

Evening Standard

Britain’s ‘biggest drug smuggling gang’ jailed

It is believed to be the largest drug smuggling operation ever detected in the UK, Manchester Crown Court heard.

The Independent UK

Man suspected of supplying small boats for Channel migrant crossings arrested

The Turkish man, 44, was arrested at Schipol Airport, Amsterdam, as part of a joint investigation on Wednesday

The Independent UK

Four arrests after 400kg cocaine cargo found on fishing boat

The NCA said three men were arrested on the boat off the coast of Kent on Sunday morning.

Evening Standard

Female volleyball pro one of three jailed after 100 kilos of cannabis seized at Heathrow

Raekelle Powell, 22, admitted being paid £166 to carry her suitcase

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