A high value Cartier diamond ring purchased by jailed Azerbaijani banker Jahangir Hajiyev has been seized by NCA investigators as part of an ongoing Unexplained Wealth Order case.

The sentencing of a man for importing a firearm from the United States is being hailed as the first major success for the recently formed Organised Crime Partnership (Scotland).

13 January 2019

A 51-year-old man has been charged with possession of a Section 5 firearm after he was arrested yesterday (12 January) as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the supply of drugs and firearms in Ireland and the UK.

A British cyber criminal has been sentenced to two years and eight months for conducting attacks that disrupted a Liberian telecommunications provider, resulting in losses estimated at tens of millions of US dollars.

Three members of an organised crime group who attempted to smuggle £3 million of Class A and B drugs into Dublin have been jailed for a total of 27 years and five months.

National Crime Agency investigators are appealing for information on the whereabouts of two men wanted for questioning in connection with a £4 million drugs conspiracy.

Two men from the West Midlands have been jailed following an operation by the joint National Crime Agency and Met Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP).

NCA officers have tonight (2 January 2019) arrested a 33-year-old Iranian national and a 24-year-old British man in Manchester, on suspicion of arranging the illegal movement of migrants across the English Channel into the UK.

Chris Hogben, head of the NCA-led Invigor organised immigration crime task force, said:

NCA officers working in the fields of organised immigration crime, child sexual abuse and exploitation, covert policing and intelligence have been officially recognised in this year’s New Year Honours.

A man wanted in connection with the supply of class A and B drugs worth more than half a million pounds has been arrested in Waterford.

More than half a million pounds of suspected criminal money has been seized, following a joint operation involving the National Crime Agency and West Midlands Police.

A man has been jailed for four years after he was caught with £439,140 in cash in the back of his van in Poplar, London.

A drugs trafficker who tried to smuggle £2m worth of cocaine into the UK using suitcases with false bottoms has been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation.

Three men have been jailed for smuggling over £7 million cash on over 80 flights from the UK to multiple destinations across Europe.