National Crime Agency (NCA)

Home News £5million fugitive behind bars after seven year pursuit Return to News 8 July 2017 A convicted money launderer has been jailed for seven and a half years for failure to pay his £5 million confiscation order. Robert Dimmock, aged 60, of Doncaster, who absconded in 2010, was arrested in Bulgaria after NCA intelligence led the country’s authorities to his hideout. Dimmock was known by the nickname ‘SAS Bob’, an image he did nothing to dispel despite never having served in the SAS. He was convicted of money laundering in 2006, and was sentenced to three and a half years. A confiscation order for just under £5million (£4,929,334.40) was raised at Leeds Crown…

Return to News7 July 2017 Eight men have been convicted of conspiring to smuggle heroin worth up to £10m into the UK from Pakistan following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. Seven of the men, who concealed the drugs inside industrial machinery, were found guilty today (7 July 2017) at Birmingham Crown Court, while one pleaded guilty before the trial. Ameran Zeb Khan, 38, (pictured, top left) Mohammed Ali, 36, (top, second left) and Sajid Hussain, 32, (top, third from left) organised two container shipments from Lahore, via Karachi, to the London Gateway Port in February and July last year. Covert seizure Border Force officers searched the July shipment, …

Home News Op Stovewood: Man charged with rape and sexual activity with a child Return to News 6 July 2017 A 34 year-old man has been charged with four child sexual abuse offences against two girls as part of Operation Stovewood. Khuram Javed, from Faraday Court, Rotherham, has been charged with rape, sexual activity with female under 16 and arranging or facilitating the travel of another person with a view to exploitation on between 2008 and 2014. He has been released under investigation until his next hearing on 20 July at Sheffield Magistrates Court. Operation Stovewood is the our investigation into non-familial child sexual exploitation and abuse in Rotherha…

Return to News5 July 2017 Between June 2015 and July 2016 57 packages of cannabis were sent on routes operated by delivery drivers Andrae Davis, 43, of Willenhall, Walsall, (pictured top) and Vincent Simpson, 42, of Stoke-On-Trent (pictures second), a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation found. Davis and Simpson were today each imprisoned for two years and four months at Manchester Crown Court (Crown Square). Back of a van The smuggling route was discovered after Border Force officers detected a package containing 8.3kg of cannabis at a Post Office depot in Coventry in October 2015. Border Force detected 16 of the deliveries in total, each labelled for fake ad…

Return to News5 July 2017 A new multinational centre to coordinate law enforcement action against grand corruption is launched today. The International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre (IACCC), hosted by the UK’s National Crime Agency, brings together specialist law enforcement officers from multiple jurisdictions into a single location to tackle allegations of grand corruption. The IACCC’s members include agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and the USA, with Interpol scheduled to join later this year. There is already significant cooperation between the countries in tackling trans-national serious crime, however to date no mechanism has …

Home News Firearms investigation update: Ten guns seized and two more arrested Return to News 4 July 2017 Two further people have been arrested and another ten guns seized as part of an ongoing National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service investigation into a network alleged to be involved in firearms supply. At approximately 5pm on Monday 3 July officers from the joint NCA and MPS Organised Crime Partnership, supported by armed officers from Thames Valley Police, stopped a white van in a pub car park in Iver, near Slough. They arrested the two occupants, men aged 25 and 35 from the Slough area, on suspicion of firearms offences. A number of bags con…

Return to News03 July 2017 Two men have been charged after 79 viable firearms seized as part of a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service operation into the attempted importation of illegal firearms. Investigations over a number of days indicated that an importation of firearms was imminent over the weekend. This information was shared with Border Force officers based at Coquelles, France, who were able to stop a vehicle before it entered the Channel Tunnel en-route to the UK on Saturday 1 July. Searches of the vehicle’s trailer revealed a large cache of viable 4mm and 6mm handguns and a quantity of ammunition, all hidden in specially adapted concea…

Return to News30 June 2017 Several officers are today receiving Commendations from Director General Lynne Owens in recognition of their exemplary contribution to our mission of protecting the public. The annual Director General’s Commendations ceremony recognises and celebrates innovation and outstanding work of officers from across the agency. For operational reasons we cannot name all the officers receiving Commendations today, but we have selected a number of stories that reflect the diverse background and work areas of the officers being recognised. These citations stand as a testament to the dedication and capability of all those receiving awards today. Darryl S…

Home News Tracked through the Channel – fishing boat Bounty lands £200m cocaine haul Return to News 29 June 2017 An international operation involving the National Crime Agency has led to the discovery of a huge haul of uncut South American cocaine on a fishing boat in Belgium. The MV Bounty II, which had been monitored by law enforcement as it sailed up the English Channel, was intercepted by Belgian and Dutch forces on Thursday 22 June and escorted into the port of Ostend. After they spent two days searching the boat, specialist officers from the NCA and Border Force National Deep Rummage Team were deployed to Belgium to assist the effort. They played a key rol…

Return to News29 June 2017 A drug smuggler has been jailed for ten years after trafficking cocaine to criminal groups around the country. The sentence, delivered at Birmingham Crown Court today (29 June 2017), follows an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Adrini Kuqi, 31, supplied criminal groups with more than 50 kg of the class A drug. He was also given a concurrent sentence of a year for money laundering and will serve a minimum of five years of the ten-year tarrif. In November 2016 NCA officers followed Kuqi’s BMW to a car park near the Hams Hal industrial estate in Coleshill, Birmingham. Stopped on the M42 They saw him leave his car before retur…

Home News National Crime Agency publishes 2017 analysis of serious and organised crime threats Return to News 29 June 2017 The National Crime Agency today publishes its fourth annual public analysis of the nature and scale of serious and organised crime affecting the UK. The 2017 National Strategic Assessment has been put together using knowledge from across UK law enforcement, government departments and the intelligence community. For the first time the threats have been categorized into three broad headings: - Vulnerability - including child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) and organised immigration crime…

Return to News28 June 2017 Two members of an organised crime group have been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation. Drugs traffickers Artan Markaj, 23, and Marsela Kreka, 30, both from Albania, were sentenced to six years nine months and eight years respectively. Officers caught the duo after a drugs handover in Barnet, north London, last June. Markaj left his home in Clarence Close, Barnet, to get into a Mini Cooper driven by Kreka. Officers believed he was carrying drugs under his coat and stopped him and Kreka when he got out of the car a few streets away. A 1kg block of high purity cocaine wrapped in a sock was hidden under the passenger seat. Wh…

Home News Convicted armed robber goes back to jail for gun importation Return to News 26 June 2017 A former armed robber has been sent back to jail after being found guilty of importing two firearms and fifty rounds of 9mm ammunition from America. The National Crime Agency’s investigation began in February 2015, after Border Force officers working at an international postal depot near Heathrow found two packages containing firearms parts, labelled as ‘antique metal’ which had been posted from Dallas to an address in Bayswater, London. NCA officers visited the address, a block of flats, and found a further two parcels to the same consignee unopened in the communal…

Return to News23 June 2017 A child sex offender who conspired with a mother to travel to Canada to rape her children has been jailed following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Alex Dennis, 37, of Pontarddulais, Swansea, discussed plans with the woman to visit her in order to abuse her children while she watched. He was sentenced to two years at Swansea Crown Court today. In addition, Dennis was given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and put on the sex offenders’ register. The mother, with whom Dennis used the online pseudonym Hardatitt, was in fact an undercover member of the Canadian police and the children were fictional. Dennis asked the …

Return to News22 June 2017 Three men have been arrested in the UK as part of an National Crime Agency led multi-agency operation targeting an organised crime group (OCG) allegedly involved in trafficking girls from Romania for sexual exploitation and money laundering. NCA investigators believe the criminals were using the internet to advertise the services of their victims, then forcing them to launder the proceeds through bank accounts controlled by the OCG. Across Europe, the group and its wider network are suspected to have made around €5 million in criminal profits. On Monday 19 June NCA officers, with support from Northumbria Police and Home Office Immigration En…