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A high ranking member of an organised crime group thought to be behind the transportation of hundreds of migrants both into and out of the UK has been jailed for almost two-and-a-half years.

A London-based nurse currently serving an 18-year prison term for trafficking Nigerian women to Europe and forcing them into sex work has been ordered to hand over almost £184,000.

A drugs trafficker who admitted posting dozens of packages of Class A drugs around the world as part of a global dark web organised crime group has been jailed for nine years.

A legal requirement for UK companies to report child sexual abuse content on their platforms to the National Crime Agency was announced as part of the Government’s Online Safety Bill.

The National Crime Agency has renewed an appeal to the UK maritime industry to beware of organised crime groups targeting them to obtain small boats for people smugglers.

A Lancashire man has been jailed for repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting two young children.

A Manchester man has been jailed for 12 years after using the encrypted phone network EncroChat to import cocaine worth £1.6m.

A lorry driver who hid 63 kilos of cocaine in a legitimate load of electronics has been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation.

More than £800,000 will be returned to the public purse after the National Crime Agency secured a forfeiture order on cash seized from a group of men attempting to smuggle it out of the UK.

Austrian who brought heroin worth £250,000 into the UK sentenced to five years in prison

A Loughborough-based businessman has agreed to hand over assets worth £500,000 to settle a National Crime Agency civil recovery claim based on his alleged links to money laundering.

Two men have been jailed for 30 years after supplying multi-kilo consignments of cocaine to crime groups across London and Essex.

A man from Wakefield has admitted to posting online messages fantasising about abusing children and possessing thousands of child sexual abuse images.

More than 70 kilos of Class A drugs have been seized and three suspects charged after an investigation by a specialist crime team from the National Crime Agency and Merseyside Police.

A suspected gun supplier from Birmingham has been charged after officers from the National Crime Agency seized a gun barrel as part of an investigation into the supply of firearms.