12 h. ago Supermarket worker caught trying to smuggle £1m cash in suitcases out of Heathrow Airport

Mazen Al Shaar, 48, was about to fly to Beirut when intercepted by Border Force officers

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4 d. ago National Crime Agency name most wanted men including holiday home fraudster

National Crime Agency name most wanted men including holiday home fraudster  News Shopper

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5 d. ago Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums

Exclusive: Police set up taskforce to tackle online violence as young men seek victims on eating disorder forumsYoung men and boys fuelled by “strongly misogynistic” online material are hunting for vulnerable women and girls to exploit on websites such as eating disorder and suicide forums, senior officers have said.The threat from young males wanting to carry out serious harm is so serious that counter-terrorism officers are joining the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the hunt for them, fearing they could go on to attack or kill. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Hundreds of barbershops targeted by police operation against money laundering

The operation targeted barbershops in an effort to prevent criminal gangs from using cash-intensive businesses for money laundering, the NCA said.,

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1 week ago People smugglers are turning to Chinese and Vietnamese encrypted apps to get small boat migrants across the Channel, head of Britain's FBI warns

The National Crime Agency has warned smugglers cannot be entirely stopped from using social media to advertise journeys across the Channel.

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2 w. ago China is 'UK's biggest security threat' as 'Bitcoin Queen' caught, say experts

The National Crime Agency has revealed the origin of the most dangerous criminals operating in Britain. These criminals have amassed billions of pounds of wealth in crypto currency

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2 w. ago Airport security uncover £1m drug stash inside electric wheelchair

The National Crime Agency says the concealment ‘shows the ingenuity crime groups employ to smuggle cocaine’

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2 w. ago Airport security check uncovers £1m cocaine stash hidden in electric wheelchair

The wheelchair contained 11 packages, weighing 12kg, concealed in the seat and backrest.

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2 w. ago Britain's FBI launches probe into Turkish barber shops used as a front for criminal gangs selling drugs, washing money and illegal workers

The National Crime Agency has launched an investigation into Turkish barber shops across the UK amid concerns that premises are being used by criminal gangs.

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3 w. ago Urgent warning as 'sadistic' online gangs coerce kids into harming themselves

The National Crime Agency warns that in the past it was mostly adults who preyed on young victims online but there has recently been a shocking increase in 'peer-to-peer' abuse

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3 w. ago Threat from teenage boys in ‘sadistic’ online groups surges sixfold, National Crime Agency warns

Intelligence shows a rise in ‘com networks’ used by ‘young men who are motivated by status, power, control, misogyny, sexual gratification or an obsession with extreme or violent material’

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3 w. ago Teenage boys are targeting girls online for sexual abuse and violence, warns National Crime Agency

Reports have surged in the last three years of gangs of boys sharing extreme violence pictures and misogynistic online

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3 w. ago Threat from teenage boys in ‘sadistic’ online groups surges six

Intelligence shows a rise in ‘com networks’ used by ‘young men who are motivated by status, power, control, misogyny, sexual gratification or an obsession with extreme or violent material’

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4 w. ago British teenage boys are being targeted on Snapchat and Instagram by Nigerian 'sextortion' gangs posing as young women

Teenage boys as young as 14 are being blackmailed by Nigerian crime gangs who pose as women to trick victims into sending explicit images before demanding payments.

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4 w. ago British teenage boys being targeted by Nigerian ‘sextortion’ gangs

The National Crime Agency has launched a campaign to educate teenagers on how sextortion works and how to report incidents.

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4 w. ago Over 400 people arrested and £7.5m seized in national crackdown on fraud

Operation Henhouse involved every police force in the country as well as national agencies

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