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Times of Malta
April 3, 2018
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has said it would “review” material provided by MEP David Casa about what he termed as “evidence of systemic money-laundering” at Malta-based Pilatus Bank. In a letter to the NCA sent days before the arrest of Pilatus Bank's owner Seyed Ali Sadr Hasheminejad,Ãâà...
The Guardian
April 2, 2018
Last month the National Crime Agency reported a 35% annual rise in the number of suspected slavery victims found in the UK, with more than 5,000 people referred to the government mechanism that supports them in 2017. Labour exploitation, rather than sexual exploitation, was the most common type ofÃâà...
Avon and Somerset Constabulary
March 26, 2018
We've welcomed a National Crime Agency report that highlights the fight against modern slavery and the efforts taken to identify and protect potential victims. The report, released today, confirmed 27 individuals who were potentially victims of human trafficking or slavery were identified in our area in 2017.
The Independent
March 25, 2018
British children are being forced into modern slavery in the UK as more potential victims are reported than ever before. A total of 5,145 potential victims were referred into the system last year, an increase of 35 per cent on the year before, and the National Crime Agency (NCA) believes the number willÃâà...
The Times
March 24, 2018
British children who have been exploited by organised crime gangs are behind a huge rise in slavery and trafficking to be announced tomorrow. The National Crime Agency (NCA) is set to reveal that, for the first time, Britons are the largest nationality recorded in the national referral mechanism, a system forÃâà...
Business Insider
March 21, 2018
The five men, currently aged between 25 and 28, made more than Ãâã800,000 ($1.1 million) through sales of Ecstasy, Ketamine, LSD, Valium, and other drugs on the dark web while students at Manchester University, according to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA). They splashed their cash on lavishÃâà...
BBC News
March 13, 2018
Det Con Patrick Prescott said: "We've been working with a criminal profiler at the National Crime Agency to examine and risk-assess the offender's behaviour and are continuing to progress numerous lines of inquiry. "Thorough analysis of the communications has been carried out and the possibility theÃâà...
The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald
March 13, 2018
ARMED police working with the National Crime Agency broke down the doors of a house just yards from Wiltshire Police headquarters as part of a drug bust which netted a kilo of heroin and a four kilos of cannabis. People living in the shared accommodation in London Road were astonished when scoresÃâà...
The News Tribune
March 10, 2018
The Home Affairs committee chairwoman called for the National Crime Agency to scrutinize the 14 deaths in light of reports that U.S. intelligence officials believe they may be linked to Russia — even though British police have not reached the same conclusion in most cases. "No attempt on an innocent lifeÃâà...
Newsweek
March 3, 2018
But over the past two decades, British banks and property have grown into one of the world's largest clearinghouses for dirty money, with some Ãâã90 billion being laundered last year, according to Britain's National Crime Agency. Anti-corruption activists in countries such as Syria and Nigeria have unearthedÃâà...
Lexology
March 3, 2018
Whilst the rest of the UK has been feeling the cold, the National Crime Agency (“NCA”) has turned up the heat on a Politically Exposed Person (“PEP”). On 28 February 2018 the NCA announced that they had secured two unexplained wealth orders (“UWOs”), the first to be granted under the new powersÃâà...
BBC News
March 3, 2018
Six people have been arrested in connection with child sex abuse in Rotherham. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said five men from Rotherham and Sheffield were arrested on suspicion of raping and indecently assaulting two girls under the age of 16. A 53-year-old woman from Rotherham was alsoÃâà...
The Independent
March 1, 2018
New powers are being used to investigate whether British properties worth Ãâã22m were paid for legally by an unnamed “politically exposed person”. The National Crime Agency (NCA) has been granted two unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) for the first time, to look into a house and offices in London andÃâà...
The Sun
February 25, 2018
THE Rotherham abuse inquiry needs 100 more officers to probe the unprecedented scale of abuse, the head of the operation has said. Over 1,500 potential victims and 110 suspects have been identified by the National Crime Agency in the UK's biggest ever investigation into child sexual exploitation.
The Guardian
February 20, 2018
... in the first official increase in the figure since the scandal erupted four years ago. The National Crime Agency (NCA) detectives revealed the updated figure on Tuesday in a briefing on Operation Stovewood, the investigation into child sexual exploitation over a 16-year period in the South Yorkshire town.
CNN
February 19, 2018
He then blackmailed them into sending him "increasingly sickening images -- whose poses he directed -- by threatening to send the original pictures to their family, friends, employers and school pals," according to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA). Read More. By the time he was arrested, Falder hadÃâà...
Coventry Telegraph
February 19, 2018
Conviction of 'hurtcore' paedophile Matthew Falder a watershed, says National Crime Agency. Cambridge University graduate, used his "evilmind" and "666devil" .... And he is not alone, investigators at the National Crime Agency (NCA) warned. Will Kerr, NCA director of vulnerabilities, said police areÃâà...
The Independent
February 14, 2018
The National Crime Agency is “closely monitoring” allegations of abuse by Oxfam staff and other aid agencies amid government warnings about public funding. Sexual offences committed outside the UK can be investigated by the agency, which is to meet with the International Development Secretary onÃâà...
The Guardian
February 14, 2018
The international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt, is to meet investigators from the National Crime Agency to discuss the Oxfam sexual misconduct scandal. Speaking at a child protection summit in Stockholm, Mordaunt said she would attend an appointment with the NCA after meetings with charityÃâà...
ChronicleLive
December 31, 1999
After the alleged poisoning, an urgent question on Government policy on Russia was put forward in the House of Commons. During the debate, Yvette Cooper MP demanded the National Crime Agency (NCA) review investigations into 14 deaths which she said “have not been treated as suspicious by theÃâà...
Somerset Live
December 31, 1999
A spokesman for National Crime Agency has issued the following statement: "On the evening of Wednesday 28 March, NCA and Hertfordshire Police officers arrested an 18-year-old man in the Abbots Langley area on suspicion of making malicious communications relating to the threatening emailsÃâà...
