National Crime Agency officers have warned registered Hawaladars in the UK of the consequences of being involved in organised immigration crime.

Read the full story ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-warni… Hawala is an informal value transfer system that operates on a basis of transfer of value without actual movement of money. Hawaladars serve entirely legitimate purposes, but are known to be exploited by criminals looking to move criminal cash, including from people smuggling.

A man who made false identity documents for organised crime groups involved in people smuggling has been jailed for three years and nine months, following an NCA investigation.

FULL STORY ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/jail-for-… Algerian national Radouane Bouhafs, 43, was arrested by NCA officers in June outside his home in Edmonton.

In an outbuilding to the rear of the property, investigators found a forgery factory complete with printers, computers, blank cards and other items being used to make false documents including embossed gold foil.

A leader of what was once the world’s most harmful cyber crime group has been unmasked and sanctioned by the UK, US and Australia, following an NCA-led international disruption campaign.

#Cronos @FBI @Europol

Full story ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/lockbit-l…
The sanctions against Russian national Dmitry Khoroshev, the administrator and developer of the LockBit ransomware group, are being announced today by @FCDOGovUK alongside @USTreasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and @DFATinSA.

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An international operation involving the National Crime Agency has taken down one of the biggest online marketplaces selling stolen credentials to criminals worldwide.

FULL STORY ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/notorious… Genesis Market was a go-to service for criminals seeking to defraud victims.

The platform hosted 80 million credentials and digital fingerprints stolen from over two million people.

Led by the @FBI and @Politie, activity to take the site down involved 17 countries.

Canadian who smuggled £295,000 worth of cannabis to Scotland sentenced

Read the full story here > nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/canadian-… Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership Scotland, made up of NCA and @PoliceScotland started an investigation after @UKBorder stopped Albanskyj at customs.

Money laundering couple caught smuggling criminal cash during lockdown.

Full story here > nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/money-lau… A husband and wife - Ardian Sharra, aged 51, and Valbona Laloshi, aged 41, from Tring, Hertfordshire - who tried to smuggle more than £200,000 out of the UK during the height of the Covid lockdown have been convicted of money laundering.

The NCA has conducted a major operation to arrest a wealthy Russian businessman on suspicion of offences including money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the Home Office and conspiracy to commit perjury. The 58 year old man was arrested on Thursday (1 December) at his multi-million-pound residence in London by officers from the NCA’s Combatting Kleptocracy Cell.

Two Birmingham men have been jailed in a National Crime Agency firearms investigation.

Full story ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/west-mids… Kemeel Reid hid a Bulldog revolver loaded with three 0.32 calibre bullets in the loft of his home in Finchley Road, Oscott, Birmingham.

Acting on intelligence about him and conspirator T’reece Ellis-Brade NCA firearms officers raided Reid’s home on 15 December last year.

Three members of an international organised crime group have been sentenced for importing drugs from the Caribbean to the UK.

Full story ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-inves… An NCA investigation found Devon Rowe, 43, Baboucarr Nyang, 49, and Winston Andrew, 55, conspired to smuggle cocaine through Manchester Airport.

In October 2018, Andrew was stopped by @ukhomeoffice Border Force who discovered 2.9kg of the Class A drug hidden in his suitcases

A criminal group which used a Christian charity as a front to import 400 kilos of cannabis into the UK has been convicted.

Full story ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/group-use… The NCA investigated Dalton Anderson, 50, Alvin Russell, 45, and Sinclair Tucker, 64, after Birmingham-based Vision Christian Ministries (VCM) was used to smuggle the drugs - worth up to £2 million.

A man from Sheffield has pleaded guilty to downloading more than 30,000 indecent images of children and possessing paedophile manuals following an NCA investigation.

Full story ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/sheffield… Christopher Priestley was arrested by NCA Cyber Crime investigators in October 2019.

Officers had identified the 52-year-old as a user who was regularly accessing child sexual abuse platforms on the dark web.

A motorcyclist who smuggled heroin into the UK in a void hidden in a top box on his bike has been jailed for more than five years after a National Crime Agency investigation.

Full story ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/motorbike… Ezekiel Rose, 40, from Pimlico, London, was stopped at the Channel Tunnel control zone in France on his return to the UK on 26 October 2021.
 
When his motorbike was searched by Border Force officers, a hide was found in the top box on the back of his bike containing packages.

A man from Nottingham has been jailed for more than two years after he admitted illegally accessing a number of victims’ devices to spy on them and build a collection of indecent images of both children and adults.

Full story➡️nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/cyber-voy… Robert Davies, 32, came to the attention of NCA investigators in 2019 after he purchased a number of cyber crime tools, including crypters and remote administration tools (RATs).

National Crime Agency and police have smashed thousands of criminal conspiracies after the infiltration of encrypted communication platform #EncroChat in the UK's biggest ever law enforcement operation.

Read more ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation… Entire organised crime groups have been dismantled during Operation Venetic with 746 arrests being made and £54m criminal cash, 77 firearms and over 2 tonnes of drugs seized so far.

An ex-employee has been jailed after admitting to carrying out cyber attacks against Jet2 which took down their computer systems for more than 12 hours.

Read more ➡️ nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/ex-employ… NCA investigators proved that 27-year-old Scott Burns from Leeds illegally accessed a domain operated by Dart Group and their subsidiary, Jet2.

An international law enforcement operation has exposed the world’s most harmful cyber crime group, Evil Corp.

Maksim Yakubets has been indicted in the United States following unprecedented collaboration between the NCA, @FBI, @NCSC & @TheJusticeDept.

nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/internati… @FBI @NCSC @TheJusticeDept Evil Corp created and deployed malware causing financial losses totalling hundreds of millions of pounds in the UK alone.

The NCA began working with multiple partners to investigate one of the group’s core malware strains, Dridex, in 2014.