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Lorry driver who attempted to smuggle guns jailed

A Romanian man has been jailed for four years for attempting to smuggle three handguns into the UK. National Crime Agency officers launched an investigation after Ionut Constantin Diaconu, 36, was stopped at Dover’s Eastern Docks on 12 July 2021.

  • Firearms
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450 users of child abuse platform arrested in the UK

450 people have been arrested in the UK after they were identified as members of an online platform used for trading child sexual abuse material.

  • Child sexual abuse
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Britain's most wanted woman arrested in Spain after nine years on the run

A money launderer involved in a £1 billion mobile phone tax scam who was one of the National Crime Agency’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Spain.

  • Money laundering
  • Fugitives
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NCA investigation sees man jailed after gun recovered from Birmingham street

A man from Birmingham has been jailed for more than nine-and-a-half years following a National Crime Agency investigation into a suspected organised crime group involved in the supply of firearms in the West Midlands.

  • Firearms
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More under 20s sexually assaulted after meeting offenders on dating sites

NCA data shows that the number of female victims of online dating-related sexual assaults aged 19 and under has increased since 2016.

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People smuggling suspect wanted in Belgium over attempted boat crossing arrested by the NCA

A man wanted in Belgium for his role in an attempt to use a boat to smuggle people across the Channel to the UK has been arrested by the National Crime Agency in north London.

  • Organised immigration crime
  • people smuggling
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Man admits importing cocaine-laced gold duck statue

A man from Albania has admitted smuggling Class A drugs into the UK after a duck statue laced with cocaine was seized at Stansted Airport.

  • Drug trafficking
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Operation Venetic: Class A drug broker jailed for 16 years

A man who used encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to run an illegal drug supply network has been jailed for 16 years and three months following an investigation by the Organised Crime Partnership.

  • Drug trafficking
  • Money laundering
  • Organised crime partnership
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Ghanaian drug trafficking network dismantled

Four members of a Ghanaian cocaine smuggling group have been jailed for over 28 years following a National Crime Agency investigation.

  • Drug trafficking

Further arrests in major NCA investigation targeting Albanian people smuggling network

Four more people have been arrested as part of an ongoing National Crime Agency investigation targeting an organised crime group alleged to be involved in smuggling hundreds of Albanian migrants to the UK illegally.

  • people smuggling
  • Serious and organised crime
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Operation Venetic: London drug supply ‘fixer’ jailed

An Albanian drug supplier who arranged cocaine deals within the UK worth almost £1.4 million has been jailed for 10 years.

  • Drug trafficking
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Driver smuggled heroin on Amsterdam day trip

A man who claimed he was on a day trip to Dunkirk when he was actually picking up 6 kilos of heroin in Amsterdam has been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation.

  • Drug trafficking
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Suspected Vietnamese people smuggler arrested and charged by the NCA

A man who is suspected of being a high-ranking member of a Vietnamese people smuggling network has been arrested by the National Crime Agency.

  • Organised immigration crime
  • people smuggling
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Suspected firearms conversion factory discovered in East Sussex

A man from East Sussex has been arrested following the discovery of a suspected criminal firearms conversion factory.

  • Firearms
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Lorry driver smuggled cocaine in shipment of frozen potatoes

An HGV driver has been jailed for smuggling £480,000 worth of cocaine whilst delivering a shipment of frozen potatoes from the Netherlands.

  • Drug trafficking
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Fugitive on the run over alleged drugs plots arrested jogging in Dutch street

One of the UK’s most wanted men was arrested today jogging in a street in the Netherlands.

  • Fugitives

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