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850 years in jail for criminals and £70m-worth of drugs seized by specialist Merseyside team

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.

  • Drug trafficking
  • Firearms
  • Money laundering
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Campaign to protect viewers from romance fraud launched by National Crime Agency and Freeview channel Great Romance

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.

  • Fraud
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Man charged with piloting small boat from France to the UK

A Sudanese national has been charged with endangering another during a journey by sea to the UK following a small boat crossing.

  • Organised immigration crime
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Bulgarian man jailed over dozens of guns and massive amount of ammunition

NCA and Border Force seized 54 handguns and 764 rounds of ammunition from smuggler's cars.

  • Firearms
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Albanian crime group duo jailed over cocaine and semi-automatic handgun

Two members of an Albanian organised crime group have been jailed for drugs and firearms offences.

  • Drug trafficking
  • Firearms
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West Sussex man who paid for children to be sexually abused jailed for 12 years

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.

  • Child sexual exploitation
  • Child sexual abuse
Cocaine laid out at Portsmouth

Nearly £20m of cocaine seized at Portsmouth Docks

Almost £20m worth of cocaine has been seized at Portsmouth Docks, sparking a National Crime Agency investigation.

  • Drug trafficking
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Crime group smuggled £40m of cocaine they almost lost at sea

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.

  • Drug trafficking
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25 boats and 25 engines destined for Channel people smugglers seized in major operation at Felixstowe

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.

  • Organised immigration crime
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Operation Venetic: Brit who fled to Spain sentenced for masterminding drugs and firearms supply worth £3.75m

A British man who fled to Spain has been sentenced for masterminding the supply of drugs and illegal firearms worth £3.75m.

  • Drug trafficking
  • Firearms
Zane Hutton-Lewis

Thai cannabis smuggler jailed for 12 months

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.

  • Drug trafficking
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NCA intelligence sharing leads to arrest of suspected fraudsters

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.

  • Fraud
Jubair and Flowers

Two sentenced for hacking Transport for London in UK’s biggest ever cyber crime case

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.

  • Cybercrime
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Fraudsters bought luxury car and home improvements from PPE scam

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.

  • Fraud
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Five charged in NCA investigation into fraud platform responsible for millions of scam calls

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.

  • Fraud
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People smugglers who arranged HGV transport for migrants are sentenced

A pair of people smugglers who arranged the transport of Vietnamese migrants to the UK hidden in lorries have been sentenced.

  • Organised immigration crime

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