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Most Wanted fugitive behind bars after international arrest

An organised crime boss who had been on the run since 2018 has begun an 11 year prison sentence after being extradited to the UK from Thailand.

  • Most wanted
Heroin pomegranate juice

£38.8m worth of heroin recovered from cover load of pomegranate juice

National Crime Agency investigators have foiled a plot to smuggle heroin with a street value of £38.8m into the UK in bottles of pomegranate juice.

  • Drug trafficking
NCA officers in branded jackets

NCA investigates land in Co Armagh suspected of being purchased with fraud money

National Crime Agency officers have obtained a freezing order for a plot of land in County Armagh as part of an ongoing civil recovery investigation.

  • Fraud

NCA and social media companies work together to tackle organised immigration crime

Thousands of social media posts, pages and accounts advertising the services of people smugglers have been removed thanks to a landmark agreement between the National Crime Agency and five major social media companies.

  • Organised immigration crime
There is no doubt that encryption plays an important role in safeguarding privacy, however this has to be balanced with the importance of safeguarding children online.

Global law enforcement coalition urges tech companies to rethink encryption plans that put children in danger from online abusers

The Virtual Global taskforce is calling for all industry partners to fully appreciate the impact of implementing system design decisions that result in blindfolding themselves to child sexual abuse (CSA) occurring on their platforms, or reduces their capacity to identify CSA and keep children safe.

  • Child sexual abuse

Notorious criminal marketplace selling victim identities taken down in international operation

An international operation involving the National Crime Agency has taken down one of the biggest online marketplaces selling stolen credentials to criminals worldwide.

  • Fraud
  • Cyber crime

Joint International Crime Centre launches

A specialist new unit has been launched to lead the UK’s work on international crime.

Operation Henhouse: Hundreds of arrests and millions in assets seized in month tackling fraud

The NCA’s National Economic Crime Centre has led a successful operation working closely with City of London Police and other policing partners against suspected fraudsters across the UK.

  • Fraud
Cocaine in tin

Bristol man charged over attempted drug importation

A Bristol man has been charged with drug offences following his arrest by National Crime Agency officers investigating the attempted importation of cocaine with a potential street value of around £1.75 million.

  • Drug trafficking
Gold seized by the NCA

Gold shipment forfeited after NCA links it to drug cartels

The National Crime Agency has obtained a civil recovery order for gold worth an estimated £4 million that was being laundered by South American drug cartels.

  • Illicit finance
Man in his dressing gown being arrested by the NCA

North West group arrested in suspected property fraud where victims lost life savings

Five men have been arrested across the North West and London in an NCA investigation linked to property investment fraud and money laundering.

  • Fraud
Computers lined up on a desk

Fraud targeted thousands across UK and abroad

More than 700 potential UK victims have been identified, among thousands worldwide targeted by a boiler room fraud that was run from Romania.

The NCA's most wanted fugitives

Seven arrested, six to go – NCA launches renewed appeal to trace Most Wanted fugitives

Update: Mark Francis Roberts has been arrested in Malaga. He is the eighth fugitive to be arrested from the campaign – six men remain on the run.

  • Fugitives
Russian cyber criminals

Ransomware criminals sanctioned in joint UK/US crackdown on international cyber crime

Seven Russian cyber criminals who are linked to the group behind some of the most damaging ransomware attacks on the UK in recent years have been exposed and sanctioned by the UK and the US.

  • Cyber crime
Arrest of suspect accused of PPE fraud

Three arrested in suspected PPE fraud worth millions

Three people including a husband and wife have been arrested in an NCA investigation linked to international PPE fraud.

  • Fraud
Small boats people smuggling equipment

Six convicted in France over small boat migrant smuggling network

Six men who set up a storage base for a small boat people smuggling network in northern France have been jailed, after an investigation supported by the National Crime Agency.

  • Organised immigration crime

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