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Home News British man back in UK charged with cyber attacks on banks Return to News 30 August 2017 A British man has been extradited from Germany to face charges he launched cyber attacks against two of the UK’s most prominent high-street banks. Daniel Kaye, 29, of Egham, Surrey, is accused of using an infected network of computers known as the Mirai#14 botnet to attack and blackmail Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays banks. Lloyds Banking Group services were disrupted by an apparent cyber attack in January 2017, while Barclays fended off an apparent cyber assault in the same month. Kaye is also facing a charge that he endangered human welfare with an alleged cyber…

Return to News29 August 2017 Kyle Enos (25) from Maindee Parade, Gwent has today pleaded guilty to importing, supplying and exporting class A drugs after investigators identified that he was using the dark web to purchase the highly toxic synthetic opioid fentanyl. Appearing at Cardiff Crown Court, Enos admitted using a number of online identities to buy and supply significant amounts of the opioid to various outlets in the UK, USA and Canada between May 2016 and May 2017. Enos was arrested in May 2017 by officers from the National Crime Agency, supported by Gwent Police. Items consistent with the preparation and packaging of drugs were recovered from his home, as well…

Home News Arrest of alleged head of international drug syndicate known as the Sultan Return to News A man suspected of being the leader of a global drug production and distribution syndicate has been arrested in the UK, following investigations by the National Crime Agency and US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Officers from the NCA and the Metropolitan Police detained Pakistani national Muhammad Asif Hafeez, 58, at an address in North London this morning (Friday 25 August). He is wanted in the United States to face charges of conspiring to import drugs and will now face extradition. Hafeez is alleged to have been the head of an international network involv…

Return to News18 August 2017 A third man has been jailed following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into an internet chat room where the rape of a child was streamed in real time. Christian Luecking Johnson, 36, of Raynes Park, London, was not online during the attack, but logged on shortly before and afterwards, forensic evidence uncovered by NCA officers showed. Private chat He pleaded guilty in July at Kingston Crown Court to encouraging the distribution of indecent images of children by participating in the chat room. Luecking Johnson also sent messages to the rapist that he “would love to see u bring ur boy in a pvt room, only u and me”. Prevention …

Home News Joint statement on kidnap investigation Return to News 16 August 2017 Officers from West Midlands Police and the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) this morning arrested the brother of Lukasz Pawel Herba in connection with the kidnapping of Chloe Ayling. Michal Konrad Herba, aged 36, was apprehended at an address in the Tividale area of the West Midlands on a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Italian authorities. He will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on 17 August. The National Crime Agency and EMSOU are providing specialist support to the Italian Polizia di Stato as part of this ongoing investigation. Share this Page: Vi…

Return to News14 August 2017 A drug trafficker who tried to smuggle heroin worth millions of pounds into the UK by disguising it as a charcoal shipment has been jailed following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. Vasil Stoyanov, 30 (pictured), hid the drugs in the sides of more than 200 cardboard boxes of charcoal. He was convicted of importing heroin at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday (11 August) and sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment. Border Force (BF) officers detected the lorry-load of heroin in June 2015 at Dover Eastern Docks (pictured). Carefully concealed A BF officer found 130g of the drug powdered and sealed in a plastic bag in the wall of one o…

Return to News14 August 2017 A jailed cocaine smuggler is still being pursued for his profits a decade after he was ordered to hand over more than £1m of criminal assets. Clifton Rochester, 47, was jailed for 14 years in 2005 for heading a drugs operation. Rochester and his crime gang were estimated to have imported almost £50m worth of cocaine from Jamaica to the UK using air hostesses as couriers. Tens of millions of pounds worth of class A was dealt in Bristol where Rochester of Greenford, Middlesex, admitted conspiracy to import and supply cocaine, deception and money laundering offences. In 2007 he was ordered to forfeit his profits with the promise his future f…

Return to News10 Aug 2017 Modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) in the UK is far more prevalent than previously thought, according to the National Crime Agency. A growing body of evidence resulting from an increase in law enforcement activity points to the numbers of victims being much higher than estimated, and the threat continuing to expand. The NCA today (Thursday 10 August) released figures showing there are currently more than 300 live policing operations targeting modern slavery in the UK. More than a dozen of the highest risk operations targeting organised crime groups are being led by the NCA. Recent operational results from those include: The arrests…

Return to News9 August 2017 Property seized from online and credit card fraudsters who took advantage of vulnerable victims has been donated to a refuge helping women and children. The items – which include televisions, games consoles and a home massage chair – were donated to The Haven in Wolverhampton after efforts to trace owners were fruitless. The goods were recovered from crooks who orchestrated a scam that involved persuading vulnerable victims in the West Midlands to set up bank accounts, fake companies and move money to help their frauds. If the victims resisted they were threatened. Marvin Campbell, aged 28, and Henry Ogunde, aged 33, were jailed for eight …

Home News Three charged in Albanian people smuggling operation Return to News 4 August 2017 Three men suspected of being members of an organised crime group involved in moving Albanian nationals from Europe into the UK have been charged with people smuggling offences The trio were arrested on Wednesday after officers from the National Crime Agency and the Belgian Federal Police of West Flanders made coordinated arrests. Scott Downie, aged 31, of Seedley Park Road, Salford; Anthony Corkovic, aged 28, of Murray Street, Salford; and Jetlind Gjyriqi, aged 31, of Approach Road, Merton, London, were all charged with people smuggling. They will appear from custody at Man…

Return to News A Nottingham man who tried to distance himself from a drug smuggling attempt by letting his girlfriend carry a suitcase containing cocaine onto a ferry before meeting her on the other side has been jailed for ten years. Kimberley Brown, 27, from Walters Row in Dudley was arrested by National Crime Agency and Border Force officers at Dover on 18 November 2015. She had travelled to France via a Eurolines coach from Victoria Coach Station in London the day before. Her boyfriend Garvey Barnes, 36, of Mansfield Road in Nottingham, had travelled to France separately via car, but the two met and stayed overnight in a hotel in Calais. The following day they re…

Home News Man suspected of 1970s child sex offences arrested in Malta Return to News Acting on behalf of the National Crime Agency (NCA), Maltese Police Force officers arrested Bryan Davies, aged 70, from Wrexham, at an address in Gozo – an island in the Maltese archipelago. He appeared at court in Valletta and consented to extradition to the UK. Officers from the NCA's Operational Pallial, which is the agency's investigation into non-recent abuse in children's homes in North Wales in the 1970s and 1980s, sought his arrest as part of the ongoing investigation. The warrant lists 38 offences, including 29 contact offences alleged to have occurred between 1976 and…

Return to NewsPrimary school teacher jailed for watching live child abuse A primary school teacher who watched as “horrific” live child abuse was screened to an internet chat room has been jailed following an investigation by the National Crime Agency. Wayne Brookes, aged 43, of Weston-Super-Mare, is the second man sentenced in relation to the chat room. Brookes was jailed for 20 months at Bristol Crown Court yesterday. He was also put on the sex offenders register for ten years, given a sexual harm prevention order for the same duration, and has been disqualified from working with children. Brookes taught at Westleigh Infants School in Southend-on-Sea …

Return to News1 August 2017 A fourth man has been charged with importing, supplying and exporting class A drugs as the National Crime Agency continues to investigate the supply and distribution of synthetic opioids across the UK. Kyle Enos (25) from Maindee Parade, Gwent was arrested in May 2017 after officers identified him using the dark web to purchase fentanyl/ synthetic opioids. He has been remanded in custody until his next hearing on 29th August at Cardiff Crown Court. This follows the arrest of three men in April, after raids on a drug mixing facility in Morley, Leeds. All three were charged with conspiring to supply class A drugs. The NCA is repeating its war…

Return to News31 July 2017 A 72-year-old man has been found guilty of importing a child sex doll after a judge made a landmark ruling that the doll was indecent or obscene. The subjects of previous prosecutions for importing the dolls have all pleaded guilty. David Turner also admitted possessing more than 34,000 images of child abuse. Although he admitted importing and having sex with the 3ft 10in doll – which is anatomically detailed and correct – he asked a judge to decide if it was indecent or obscene in law. Today, in the first ruling of its kind, Judge Simon James, sitting at Canterbury Crown Court, decided it was. National Crime Agency officers arrested T…