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Three men have been arrested in Birmingham as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into modern slavery and human trafficking.

A 44-year-old man from Sheffield has been arrested by officers from Operation Stovewood, the National Crime Agency’s investigation into child sexual abuse in Rotherham.

A lying lorry driver who smuggled £3m worth of heroin into the UK was caught out when he put a receipt for a bottle of whisky next to his hidden load of the Class A drug.

The Home Secretary has appointed Graeme Biggar CBE as Director General of the National Crime Agency (NCA).

A man who attempted to smuggle £720,000 of heroin and cocaine into the UK hidden in car door panels has been jailed for 11 years.

A man has been arrested as part of a joint National Crime Agency and Police Scotland investigation into cannabis farms and human trafficking.

A man from West Sussex who targeted girls as young as 12 online and blackmailed them into becoming his ‘sex slaves’ has pleaded guilty following a National Crime Agency investigation.

A second-hand car salesman has agreed to forfeit a property portfolio and money worth  a total of £1.14million, following a Civil Recovery and Tax investigation into his acquisition of a portfolio of ten properties.

A man has been arrested in Teesside as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a suspected Chinese underground banking network.

Three men have been arrested as National Crime Agency officers targeted an organised crime group manufacturing specialist hides for drugs in industrial machinery.

This pdf red alert (290 KB) is issued by the JMLIT+ Sanctions Facilitators Cell, with representation from law enforcement, private industry, regulators and OFSI.

National Crime Agency officers have targeted members of a major criminal network suspected of involvement in the smuggling of up to 10,000 people into the UK.

A man and woman have been arrested following searches across Heckmondwike and Dewsbury this morning, as part of a National Crime Agency investigation linked to heroin supply in West Yorkshire.

National Crime Agency officers have today joined what is believed to be the biggest ever international operation targeting criminal networks suspected of using small boats to smuggle thousands of people into the UK.

National Crime Agency officers have assisted an operation in France which has seen more than a dozen arrests in connection with the deaths of 27 people attempting to cross the English Channel in a dinghy last November.