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Return to News 24 December 2018 More than half a million pounds of suspected criminal money has been seized, following a joint operation involving the National Crime Agency and West Midlands Police. Acting on a tip-off from the NCA, officers from West Midlands Police intercepted a van on the M6 near Rugby on Tuesday 18 December. Inside they found a holdall containing more than £400,000 of cash (right). The cash was seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and the driver of the van was arrested on suspicion of money laundering offences. He was later released under investigation. A subsequent search of the driver’s home address in Epping Forest by NCA of…
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Interesting news report but you'd think if they were threatening the crew with violence to take it over they would have been arrested and investigated for more than just immigration offences.
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Image caption Witnesses were told by armed police to "stand back" Armed police have shut part of a town centre in the search for a wanted man. Officers were sent to Walsall Street in Willenhall, in the West Midlands, at about 08:30 GMT following reports of a sighting of the wanted man. A police cordon is in place and witnesses said they were asked to "stand back" from what officers described as a "serious incident". West Midlands Police has yet to confirm the man's identity or the offences he is wanted for. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-46658926
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Return to News 21 December 2018 One of the most influential and feared organised criminals in Europe has been convicted of involvement in a plot to smuggle more than a tonne of cocaine, following an investigation involving the National Crime Agency and international partners. Robert Dawes, 46, originally from Nottinghamshire, was found guilty of drug trafficking offences following a two week trial in Paris. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. The trial followed a lengthy investigation involving law enforcement in the UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands and South America into a huge 1.3 tonne cocaine seizure at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in Septem…
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Home News Cambridge academic siphoned off government grants to fund luxury lifestyle Return to News 21 December 2018 A Cambridge University academic who fraudulently claimed almost £2.5 million in government grants has been jailed for four years, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency. Dr. Ehsan Abdi-Jalebi, age 38, a former engineering student and Bye-Fellow at the university, used faked documents to siphon off mo…
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Return to News Three men have been jailed for smuggling over £7 million cash on over 80 flights from the UK to multiple destinations across Europe. Two Albanian brothers organised travel for four others who acted as couriers by carrying large amounts of cash in their luggage. Over 80 trips were made by the group between November 2016 and January 2018 to countries including Belgium and Greece for onward transportation to Albania. Gjelosh Kolicaj, 37, and Jak Kolicaj, 47, drove the couriers to the airport and waited until they had checked in the suitcase before leaving. Airline records showed that the brothers also made similar journeys to Europe, taking bags …
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Return to News 21 December 2018 A computer expert has been jailed for eight years after admitting offences including operating a child sex abuse forum and blackmailing a young girl. Matthew Claridge, 49, of Cardiff, employed a scatter gun approach to target vulnerable young users of a live-streaming site asking them to send him indecent images of themselves. He used a screen recorder application to make videos of two UK victims broadcasting indecent videos of themselves. Using the online name ‘Cuddlemonkey’, he tried to groom and coerce one girl to send him pictures of her genitals which he asked her to photograph in public to worsen her humiliation. The …
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Body camera footage shows an assault on two officers, during which one suffered facial injuries after being repeatedly punched in the head. The footage, released by Lincolnshire Police, shows one officer being pushed into a hedge by a man before a second officer is dragged to the floor and attacked in North Hykeham. One of the officers required hospital treatment for the injuries sustained on 10 December. The force said a man had been convicted of assault in relation to the incident but has not released any further details. Chief Constable Bill Skelly condemned the incident, saying assaults are "not part of the job". In November new legislation wa…
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Return to News 21 December 2018 A drugs trafficker who tried to smuggle £2m worth of cocaine into the UK using suitcases with false bottoms has been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation. French national Christian Francois Agbo, 26, was sentenced to 10 years and four months behind bars today at Manchester Crown Court after admitting trafficking 20kilograms of the class A. He would have been jailed for 13 years if he was convicted after trial. Border Force officers at Manchester Airport stopped Agbo on 19 September. He had travelled from Cotonou Airport, in Benin, via Brussels. Agbo, of Le Puy, France, collected two identical silver suitcases f…
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Return to News Friday 21 December A British man who travelled to Belgium to purchase a haul of illegal weapons has been jailed, along with five members of a firearms trafficking group, for a total of 16 and a half years following a joint investigation by the National Crime Agency and the Belgian Federal Police (BFP). The group were jailed in October, however details can only be released now following the conclusion of a linked investigation by the BFP. In 2017, investigators from the NCA’s Armed Operations Unit identified that 33-year-old British national, Patrick Riley, was planning to travel to Belgium to purchase a haul of illegal weapons. After sharing …
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Return to News A Slovakian man has been jailed for 22 years for organising the importation of a semi-automatic weapon and a large quantity of ammunition into the UK. Marek Platko, aged 28, of Pinehurst Road, Liverpool, was found guilty after a week-long trial at Canterbury Crown Court. National Crime Agency investigators were called in after Border Force officers stopped a van at Dover in April this year following a vehicle scan and a search. The Slovakian driver, Peter Kral, aged 41, of Grassmere Street, Liverpool, claimed he had been to the Czech Republic to collect a racing buggy for his boss. A foam-filled concealment on the front of the van contained a…
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Return to News Mathew Law, from London, is the eighth person to be convicted as part of a wider investigation led by the National Crime Agency.He was found guilty last month following a two-week trial. Law initially started communicating with Christopher Knight, aged 39, from Manchester– a prominent member of a paedophile ring – using encrypted communication including TOR and the dark web. Knight then introduced Law to other like-minded individuals in the group and they began planning the ‘most shockingly sordid exploitation’ of young toddlers and babies. One of the men had access to a baby and over a period of nine months, he was sexually abused by the group…
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Home News Suspicious Activity Reports annual report 2018 published Return to News The 2018 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Annual Report is published today, showing that the UK Financial Intelligence Unit processed a record number of SARs (463,938); 22,619 of those were requests for a defence against money laundering (DAML), which resulted in a total of £51,907,067 being denied to criminals. There was also a marked increase in the nu…
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Image caption The disciplinary hearing is being held at Goole Magistrates' Court Two police officers threatened to Taser a boy with learning difficulties who was sitting on a sofa, a misconduct hearing heard. PCs Paul Jackson and James Newton were called out to speak to the 14-year-old following a phone call made by his father on 5 May 2013. A misconduct panel heard his head was "banged against a wall" during his arrest and he suffered facial bruising. The officers deny Humberside Police's claim that they breached standards. The disciplinary panel heard the boy, who was from London and visiting his sister in Hull at the time, received "several …
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Police officers carrying Tasers are almost 50 per cent more likely to use force against suspects, a new study suggests. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-officers-carrying-tasers-50-more-likely-to-use-force-a4022231.html
