More than 100 criminals linked to drug and gun crime in Merseyside have been jailed as a result of investigations by a specialist team formed in 2021.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) and Freeview channel Great! Romance have today launched a joint campaign highlighting warning signs of romance fraud, a crime that affects victims both emotionally and financially, costing millions of pounds every year.
A Sudanese national has been charged with endangering another during a journey by sea to the UK following a small boat crossing.
NCA and Border Force seized 54 handguns and 764 rounds of ammunition from smuggler's cars.
Two members of an Albanian organised crime group have been jailed for drugs and firearms offences.
A man from West Sussex who committed multiple child abuse offences, including paying for children in the Philippines to be sexually abused to order, has been jailed for 12 years.
Almost £20m worth of cocaine has been seized at Portsmouth Docks, sparking a National Crime Agency investigation.
Eleven offenders guilty of plot to retrieve 500kg of cocaine from the ocean – as NCA releases bonus episode of podcast series Underworld exploring the chemical concealment of cocaine.
At least 25 inflatable boats and 25 outboard engines which would have been delivered to people smuggling gangs have been seized at Felixstowe, as part of a National Crime Agency investigation.
A British man who fled to Spain has been sentenced for masterminding the supply of drugs and illegal firearms worth £3.75m.
A man has been jailed for trying to smuggle around £430,000 worth of cannabis on a flight from Thailand, following an investigation by Scotland’s Organised Crime Partnership team.
Six suspected scammers targeting UK victims from a Nigerian compound have been arrested following joint working between the National Crime Agency, Nigerian Police Force and Meta.
Two young men have been sentenced for launching a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL) which cost tens of millions of pounds in losses and inconvenienced thousands of customers.
A group who fraudulently claimed to be able to provide PPE during the pandemic but instead spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on house renovations and luxury cars have been convicted after a National Crime Agency investigation.
Five people have been charged as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into Russian Coms, a group which made products used by criminals to defraud victims all over the world.
A pair of people smugglers who arranged the transport of Vietnamese migrants to the UK hidden in lorries have been sentenced.