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A motorbike cop has been dismissed from the police for gross misconduct after he sent an explicit photo to a woman while on duty. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-officer-year-sacked-sending-18272619.amp

Millions of pounds of laundered criminal money has been recovered by the National Crime Agency after an investigation into a corrupt Liberian business account. On 8 April 2020, the NCA issued a Notice of Forfeiture on the account’s balance of $8 million dollars (approx £6.4 million), which investigators argued was part of a fund operated for the purpose of tax evasion, money laundering, bribery and corruption. The NCA’s investigation began when Commerzbank AG London approached the National Economic Crime Centre after noticing unusual activity on an account held by a Liberian company called ‘The Albatross Limited’. The bank account had been internally investigated and…

A 26-year-old man has been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the alleged smuggling of migrants into the UK. The Albanian national was detained on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration by officers from Kent Police, who were working with the NCA, on the A2 near Cobham as he travelled towards London at around 7.30 on Saturday morning (16 May). After being questioned by NCA investigators he was released under investigation. Two other men who were in the car with him, also believed to be Albanian nationals, were detained on suspicion of having arrived illegally in the UK within an HGV. The pair were handed to Immigration Enforcement a…

By Tom Burridge Transport correspondent, BBC News 18 May 2020 Related TopicsCoronavirus pandemic Image copyright Getty Images New measures have been deployed on board trains and at stations amid fears that more people might use public trans…

This is the shocking moment a police officer appears to kick and hit a 15-year-old boy in the street. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8268777/amp/Shocking-moment-police-officer-kicks-hits-15-year-old-boy-broad-daylight.html

Four members of a criminal network have been jailed for a total of over 50 years for transporting hundreds of kilos of cocaine through Kent, stashed in frozen chicken and marrow bones. Thomas Lordan, 38, of Hurst Road, Sidcup; Mehmet Ali, 62, of Ministry Way, Eltham; and Francis Sullivan, 22, of Clayhill Crescent, Mottingham, who all admitted conspiracy to supply class A drugs, were sentenced yesterday to 18, 15.5, and 10 years at Lewes Crown Court. Emanuel Jella, 20, of Chatham Road, Kingston, was previously jailed to 6 years 7 months for the same offence at Southwark Crown Court. Officers from the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime …

Two men have been charged with money laundering offences after £90,000 was found in a vehicle attempting to cross the UK border. Adrian Hij, 31, and Gheorghe Ionesi, 48, both Romanian nationals of no fixed abode, were arrested and charged by National Crime Agency investigators under the Proceeds of Crime Act after their vehicle was stopped at the Eastern Docks, Dover. Border Force conducted a stop of the vehicle on Monday and following a search detected the cash which was believed to be in furtherance of criminality. The money was hidden in a section of the centre console that had been specifically removed to conceal cash, with separate stashes found in a suitcase an…