News - National Crime Agency (2024)

Corrupt border officer jailed for aiding organised crime group

• Drug trafficking
• Corruption

Seven men have been found guilty of a string of child sex abuse offences against two teenage girls in Rotherham in the early 2000s.

Four people have been detained in Moldova in relation to a suspected corruption scheme to bribe officials in Moldova and elsewhere for wanted persons to avoid detection by Red Notices published by INTERPOL.

National Crime Agency officers have arrested two men wanted by the French authorities over the death a young girl who was attempting to cross the Channel in a small boat.

A nurse from Ipswich who worked with vulnerable adults has been sentenced for viewing child abuse images.

Six people have been charged with forcing people to work in cannabis farms, following a National Crime Agency investigation.

Three people who sent crystal meth to Australia, where it would have been worth up to £4.3 million at street level, have been jailed.

A man who purchased convertible blank firearms from Spain and had them shipped to Northern Ireland has been sentenced.

The National Crime Agency has dismantled the servers of prominent malware ‘droppers’ which have enabled cyber criminals to conduct ransomware attacks around the world.

A corrupt former border officer from Kent has been sentenced after supplying class A drugs, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency.

A man from Rotherham who is already serving a 23-year jail term for raping and indecently assaulting teenage girls has been sentenced after admitting further offences.

A taxi driver who raped two children in Rotherham two decades ago has been convicted, following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

A man wanted in relation to a multi-million pound NCA bribery investigation has been charged alongside the company of which he is a director.

A “significant and trusted” drugs supplier who went on the run from law enforcement was caught hiding in his parents’ loft.

Two men involved in the handover of a firearm, which was recovered from a minicab in south east London, have been jailed.

Two east London criminals who arranged for migrants to be smuggled into the UK using lorries and small aircraft have been sentenced to a combined total of five years and two months.