EU’s most threatening criminal networks enter legal economy
Crime webs are penetrating legitimate businesses across the 27-nation bloc, relying heavily on corruption to develop their activities. ADVERTISEMENTA bleak...
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International investigation disrupts the world’s most harmful cyber crime group
The National Crime Agency is today, Tuesday 20 February, revealing details of an international disruption campaign targeting LockBit, the world’s...
Indian pleads guilty in US to selling drugs on dark web, forfeits $150 million in cryptocurrency
A 40-year-old Indian national from Haldwani, Uttarakhand, has pleaded guilty in an Ohio court to charges related to operating an...
$150m cryptocurrency seizure following US-UK cooperation
The head of a multi-million-dollar drug enterprise has pleaded guilty to supplying hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs on a...
Member of steroid smuggling organised crime group told to hand over £9.8m proceeds of crime
The final member of a global anabolic steroid manufacture and distribution network has today been ordered to hand over assets...
National Strategic Assessment for Serious and Organised Crime
I am delighted to be here for my first public speech as Director General of the National Crime Agency. Thank...
Qakbot: cyber crime service taken out in international operation
An international operation involving the National Crime Agency has led to the takedown of Qakbot malware, which facilitated ransomware attacks...
How China came to dominate the black market for money laundering
Under China’s currency controls, people cannot send the equivalent of more than $50,000 abroad per year. As a result, elites...
Former Cambridge don who defrauded Government energy grants repays more that £1m
An ex-Cambridge University academic and convicted fraudster has paid £1m back to the taxpayer after a National Crime Agency investigation...
