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Seized guns

More than 700 firearms recovered in ground-breaking NCA-led operation

More than 700 firearms have been recovered in the UK after an operation led by the National Crime Agency.

  • Firearms

Liverpool man arrested over alleged breaches of court order

National Crime Agency officers have arrested a 60-year-old man from Liverpool on suspicion of committing numerous breaches of his Serious Crime Prevention Order.

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Head of London-based people smuggling network jailed after covert NCA investigation

The head of an organised crime group that smuggled hundreds of people both into and out of the UK has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years.

  • people smuggling
Arrest of alleged organiser of Mediterranean migrant crossings

Update: Man charged over Mediterranean migrant boat crossings

National Crime Agency officers have charged a man with people smuggling offences as part of an international investigation into an organised crime network moving migrants across the Mediterranean from North Africa into Europe.

  • Organised immigration crime
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Psychiatrist helped run dark web child abuse site

A psychiatrist from London who helped run a dark web site dedicated to the sexual abuse of children has been jailed for six years.

  • Child sexual abuse
Killingholme seizure

Truck driver googled how to avoid sniffer dogs before getting arrested with £23m cocaine

A lorry driver who tried to smuggle hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the UK on behalf of an organised crime group has been jailed for 13-and-a-half years.

  • Drug trafficking
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Travelling sex offender coached others to abuse children

A man from East Sussex who travelled to Nepal and the Philippines to sexually abuse children, and coached others online how to groom victims, has been jailed for 21 years imprisonment and seven years extended licence period.

  • Child sexual abuse
Nana Oppong

Suspected murderer extradited to the UK from Morocco

One of the UK’s most wanted fugitives has been returned to the UK to stand trial over the murder of an Essex man.

Matthew Smith

Teacher paid £65,000 to commission the abuse of children in India

A former deputy head teacher of a primary school has pleaded guilty to paying and instructing teenagers in India to abuse younger children.

  • Child sexual exploitation
  • Child sexual abuse

NCA dismantles UK arm of people smuggling crime group

Three alleged members of an Albanian organised crime group bringing migrants to the UK in small boats and HGVs have been arrested following a National Crime Agency operation.

  • Organised immigration crime

Two arrests in Leicestershire over £120m cocaine haul hidden in charcoal

A major National Crime Agency operation against a suspected organised crime group that imported around 1.6 tonnes of cocaine into the UK has resulted in two arrests.

  • Drug trafficking

Administrator of online forum for paedophiles jailed following NCA investigation

A Devon man who set up an online forum for sharing indecent images of children has been sentenced to three years in jail.

  • Child sexual exploitation
weapons seized by the NCA

Dutch national extradited to UK over firearms seizure

A 34-year-old man from the Netherlands has appeared in court in the UK to face charges over the attempted importation of an AK47-style automatic rifle and handgun.

  • Firearms

Operation Venetic: Leeds fugitive returned to UK after Marbella arrest

A man wanted by the National Crime Agency for trafficking weapons and ammunition has been sent back to prison and charged with drugs offences after he was arrested in Spain.

  • Firearms
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NCA freezes holiday home linked to South East Antrim UDA

A seaside holiday home in County Down believed to have been purchased with the proceeds of fraud and money laundering offences has been frozen as part of an ongoing National Crime Agency civil recovery investigation.

  • Fraud
  • Money laundering
Byrne arrest

Alleged Kinahan organised crime group members arrested in Spain

Two men wanted by the National Crime Agency on suspicion of firearms offences have been arrested in Spain.

  • Firearms

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