National Crime Agency (NCA)
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Return to News 26 June 2018 A former priest who spoke of his sexual interest in babies has been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation. Edmund Black, 44, was jailed for 31 months after admitting two counts of intentionally encouraging or assisting the distribution of indecent imagesof children, and one count of making indecent images of children. Between September 2015 and March 2018 Black was present in online conference rooms 18 times when child sex abuse was being shown. In May 2016 he hosted one of the conference rooms where nine videos were played showing horrific abuse of very young children – one thought to be just three-months-old. No li…
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Home News Seized at sea: international operations net more than three tonnes of cocaine Return to News 26 June 2018 More than three tonnes of cocaine has been seized in the Atlantic Ocean following two separate international operations involving the National Crime Agency. In the first, the NCA worked with the Spanish National Police, Air Force and Customs services to intercept the British flagged 40 foot yacht SY Pepper Sauce around 2…
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Home News PCTF officers execute warrants targeting proceeds of crime Return to News 21 June 2018 National Crime Agency officers working as part of the Paramilitary Crime Task Force today executed a series of search warrants on four properties in the Carrickfergus, Ballycarry and Larne areas of Antrim. The searches related to civil recovery investigations being undertaken by the PCTF under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and were under…
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Home News Further arrests made in Iraqi people smuggling investigation Return to News 20 April 2018 National Crime Agency officers investigating an alleged people smuggling network operating between Iraq and the UK centered on the north west of England have made two further arrests. The pair, a woman aged 30 and from Manchester, and a man aged 21 and from Burnley were both detained on suspicion of conspiring to facilitate illegal immi…
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Home News People smuggling ‘ringleader’ arrested in joint UK-Belgian investigation Return to News 20 June 2018 The suspected ringleader of an organised criminal network thought to be behind hundreds of attempts to smuggle migrants into the UK has been arrested by the National Crime Agency. 31-year-old Albanian national Alket Dauti was detained at his home address in Penge, south-east London, this morning (20 June). The arrest was p…
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NCA: Two men charged with raping girl aged 14
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Home News Two men charged with raping girl aged 14 Return to News 19th June 2018 Two men have been charged with raping and indecently assaulting a girl aged 14 as part of the National Crime Agency’s investigation into child sexual abuse and exploitation in Rotherham. Abid Saddiq (37) from Masbrough in Rotherham and Waseem Khaliq (33) from Eldon Street in Sheffield were arrested on the 11 June on suspicion of rape, conspiracy to rape an…
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Home News Brothers from Sussex imported suitcases full of drugs Return to News 15 June 2018 Two brothers from Sussex have been convicted for attempting to smuggle drugs worth around £200,000 into Scotland via Prestwick Airport. Jack (aged 25) and James (26) Goldsmith, from Hastings, were intercepted by Border Force officers at the Scottish airport on 11 January, having arrived on a flight from Malaga. Both were found to have suitca…
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NCA: Update on Dixons Carphone plc cyber incident
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Home News Update on Dixons Carphone plc cyber incident Return to News 13 June 2018 Mike Hulett, Head of Operations at the National Crime Agency said: “The National Crime Agency (NCA) is leading the UK law enforcement response to the incident which has affected Dixons Carphone plc. “We are working with partners – including the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Information Commissio…
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Return to News  13 Jun 2018 A man from Solihull has been convicted of being the head of an organised crime group involved in the importation and supply of class A and B drugs on an industrial scale. James Mulvey, 42, was apprehended in Lithuania on a European Arrest Warrant in March 2017 following a two year investigation by the National Crime Agency. NCA investigators worked with the West Midlands Regional Asset Recovery team, HMRC, and law enforcement in over nine countries to collate and analyse extensive financial and telephone evidence which proved Mulvey was the mastermind behind a large scale drugs conspiracy in 2006 and 2007. Mulvey used bogus hau…
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NCA: Wheels come off for stock car drugs importers
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Return to News 13 June 2018 A man used the cover of being a stock car racer in a bid to smuggle drugs with a street value of £2.6m into the UK. Antonius Hendriks, 50, hadn’t raced at all in the UK in 2017 but told officials he and his assistant Rene Neuteboom, 35, were en route to a competition in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, when they were stopped at the Channel Tunnel on 31 August last year. Inside the specially adapted truck they used to transport Hendriks’s race car were 40kgs of cocaine and 280kgs of cannabis hidden in the roof. Officials’ attention first turned to the vehicle because an illegal immigrant had hidden in an external locker on the truck unknown …
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Home News Will Kerr to join Police Scotland after NCA secondment Return to News 12 June 2018 Will Kerr, the NCA's Director of Vulnerabilities, is to take up a position with Police Scotland as Deputy Chief Constable. Will has been on secondment to the NCA from his role as Assistant Chief Constable with the Police Service of Northern Ireland since January 2017. His current role has seen him lead and coordinate the national response to c…
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Home News Paramilitary Crime Task Force execute warrant at Belfast social club Return to News 11 June 2018 Officers from the Paramilitary Crime Task Force today executed a warrant at a social club in the Heather Street area of Belfast, which was suspected of continuing to trade without a licence. The premises had previously been visited by the PCTF in February of this year, when a number of licence breaches were detected. A restrainin…
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Home News Fugitive wanted since 2014 appears in court charged with drug trafficking Return to News 9 June 2018 A man who was wanted by the National Crime Agency in connection with an attempt to import 15 kilos of cocaine has appeared in court. Michael Lloyd, 31, originally from the East London/Essex area was arrested by the Spanish National Police in Barcelona on 14 May. He had been wanted by the NCA since September 2014. Lloyd was lo…
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Home News National Crime Agency officers recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours Return to News 9 June 2018 The work of two National Crime Agency (NCA) officers has been recognised in this years’ Queen’s Birthday Honours. Tobi Mulder has received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to law enforcement and diversity, and a second officer Mark, received the Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to law enforcement a…
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NCA: 'Insider threat’ airport worker jailed for 13 years in Colombian cocaine conspiracy
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Return to News 8 June 2018 An airport security officer who was at the centre of a Colombian organised crime group’s cocaine route into the UK has been jailed for 13 years, after a National Crime Agency investigation. Farhan Iqbal, 31, used his insider knowledge and privileged access to Heathrow Airport to take consignments of the Class A drug before passing them on. Today, at Blackfriars Crown Court, Iqbal, of Hanson Gardens, Southall, London, was sentenced along with two accomplices – a courier who brought the drugs in and a man who was waiting to collect them. On November 23 last year NCA officers caught Iqbal in the toilets at Terminal 5 taking possessio…
