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NCA: Two arrested over £40k ecstasy seizure
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Home News Two arrested over £40k ecstasy seizure Return to News 23 May 2018 On Tuesday 22 May National Crime Agency officers, supported by Police Scotland, executed search warrants at premises in Barrhead and Paisley, near Glasgow, following the seizure of around four thousand ecstasy tablets by Border Force. This joint operation relates to the criminal exploitation of the postal service to import controlled drugs into the United Kin…
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NCA: Dozens of victims safeguarded as modern slavery crackdown focuses on labour exploitation
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Home News Dozens of victims safeguarded as modern slavery crackdown focuses on labour exploitation Return to News 23 May 2018 Dozens of potential victims of slavery have been safeguarded following the latest nationwide multi-agency drive to tackle modern slavery. The week of co-ordinated action, which was led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA), started on Monday 14 May and focused on …
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NCA: £22 million of cocaine and firearm seized by joint NCA and Metropolitan Police unit
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Return to News A man and a woman have been charged respectively with firearms and drugs offences as investigations by a joint NCA and Metropolitan Police unit targeted organised crime and associated violence from UK ports to London streets. The two investigations are part of sustained efforts to tackle the range of threats posed by the class A drugs trade, particularly undermining of UK border controls, and the use of violence and weapons by those controlling distribution within the UK. On Friday 18 May, 32-year-old Spanish national, Olivia Anton-Altamirano, was charged with drugs importation in relation to the seizure of 259kg of class A drugs smuggled i…
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Return to News 22 May 2018 A Hull man who befriended and helped vulnerable families in rural Kenya to gain access to their children has been convicted of 9 child abuse offences. The National Crime Agency began investigating Keith Morris, a 72-year-old locksmith, in February 2017 after another British national staying in Kenya reported his inappropriate behaviour with children. Enquiries by the NCA and Kenyan National Police identified that in the many years Morris had been visiting a rural village in Kilifi County, Kenya, he frequently took local children away for trips, where he would buy them gifts and stay with them in hotel rooms. It was on these trips …
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Return to News 18 May 2018 Three Ukrainian nationals who were convicted of attempting to smuggle 19 migrants into Suffolk on a hired yacht have been jailed. The trio were arrested after the boat – Flamingo - arrived into Southwold harbour on 15 October 2017, having sailed across the North Sea from the Netherlands. Shortly after the boat landed, National Crime Agency officers and the Border Force coastal patrol vessel ‘Alert’ moved in and Yevhenii Vasylkov, 30, and Yupi Karakin, 27, were arrested, alongside a number of migrants who were still on the vessel. Ten migrants had already been transferred into two vehicles for onward transportation. Those vehicles …
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Return to News 18 May 2018 Three Ukrainian nationals who were convicted of attempting to smuggle 19 migrants into Suffolk on a hired yacht have been jailed. The trio were arrested after the boat – Flamingo - arrived into Southwold harbour on 15 October 2017, having sailed across the North Sea from the Netherlands. Shortly after the boat landed, National Crime Agency officers and the Border Force coastal patrol vessel ‘Alert’ moved in and Yevhenii Vasylkov, 30, and Yupi Karakin, 27, were arrested, alongside a number of migrants who were still on the vessel. Ten migrants had already been transferred into two vehicles for onward transportation. Those vehicles …
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Home News Firearms and grenades seized following NCA operation in Sussex Return to News 17 May 2018 Five handguns and three hand grenades have been seized following a National Crime Agency operation in West Sussex. NCA officers, supported by armed colleagues from Sussex Police, moved in on a lorry on the Rosier Business Park in Billingshurst at around 12 midday today (17 May). They arrested the lorry driver, a man his 40s from the …
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Return to News 17 May 2018 Two members of a Nigerian organised crime group who committed more than £1m worth of fraud and money laundering after staging a mass phishing con have been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation. Emmanuel Mmaduike and Olawale Kashimawo, both 31, spent the money on a lavish lifestyle – hiring a helicopter, driving flash cars – and regularly posed for photographs of themselves with wads of money, expensive watches and drinking champagne. Confiscation orders are being pursued against both men. The duo’s organised crime group (OCG) was based in south-east London and obtained thousands of business email addresses and pa…
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Return to News 17 May 2018 A loaded pistol has been recovered from a drug trafficker’s home following an operation by the Organised Crime Partnership (OCP), which is jointly run by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Metropolitan Police Service. The gun was found with 20 bullets, cocaine, £193,430 in cash and lists of recorded drug deals at the Aaron Chander’s house in Stafford Road, Wolverhampton. Chander, 26, is one of three dealers imprisoned today following a cocaine deal in a pub car park. He was sentenced to 17 years and two months at Wolverhampton Crown Court after pleading guilty to possession of the gun, conspiring to supply cocaine and money l…
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NCA: Document distributor had dozens of fake IDs
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Home News Document distributor had dozens of fake IDs Return to News 17 May 2018 A man who was at the centre of a fake identity document distribution ring has been jailed for more than five years. Albanian national Arsen Baculi, 23, was arrested by National Crime Agency officers in east London on Tuesday 8 February 2018 after picking up a consignment of counterfeit documents, including a Greek passport and ID card with his picture on…
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Return to News 17 May 2018 A teenager has been arrested over hoax bomb threats sent to thousands of schools. The 18-year-old is the third teenager to be arrested over a recent spate of malicious communications sent to schools in the UK and US. He was arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill, blackmail and malicious communications. National Crime Agency officers arrested the suspect yesterday at the home he shares with his family in Andover, Hampshire. NCA senior investigating officer Marc Horsfall said: “The series of bomb threats caused huge worry and inconvenience to thousands of innocent people. “Anyone thinking that law enforcement doesn’…
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Home News NCA appoints Steve Rodhouse as Director General of operations Return to News 15 May 2018 The National Crime Agency today (15 May) announces the appointment of Steve Rodhouse as its new Director General (Operations). Steve joins the agency from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) where he has worked for eight years and is currently Deputy Assistant Commissioner. He has worked in a variety of detective and uniformed roles ac…
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NCA: National Crime Agency publishes 2018 analysis of serious and organised crime threats
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Return to News The 2018 National Strategic Assessment (NSA) draws intelligence from UK law enforcement, government departments, the intelligence community and the private and voluntary sectors. The assessment provides evidence that the scale and complexity of organised crime continues to grow despite notable operational successes - reinforcing the findings from the National Security Capability Review, recently published by the National Security Advisor. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-security-capability-review-nscr The NSA highlights overlaps and links between all threat types. It also emphasises that criminals are abusing technology and…
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Home News Arrests made in Essex over attempted cross-Channel firearms importation Return to News 10 May 2018 National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators are questioning two men from Essex over an attempt to import a deadly haul of firearms into the UK. The weapons included two AR-15 assault rifles of the same type used in mass shootings at a school in Parkland, Florida in February and at a music festival in Las Vegas last October, as w…
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NCA: Schools hoax bomb threat
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Return to News 8 May 2018 We are aware of a number of threatening emails being sent to schools and are investigating alongside our partners in the police. We understand that these types of emails can be distressing and while we take the communications extremely seriously we must stress there is no credible threat. We would ask that anyone receiving such an email contact their local police. Share this Page: View the full article
