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                • Monday, 11 September, 2023
                  Cyber Security
                  Ransomware thrives as cyber security remains lax, says UK report

                  Multibillion-dollar cybercriminals have developed specialised areas while businesses have been slow to keep pace

                  Computer code displayed on screens
                • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
                  Madagascar
                  Aide to Madagascar leader accused of seeking bribe from UK gemstone miner

                  Britain’s National Crime Agency arrests Romy Andrianarisoa and associate over alleged approach to Gemfields

                  Kagem opencast emerald mine is seen in this aerial photo in Lufwanyama, near Kitwe, Zambia
                • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
                  UK crime
                  Police in England and Wales failing to curb online child sex abuse, says watchdog

                  Constabulary inspectorate says forces ‘do not understand’ the growing scale of exploitation

                  Young girls holding phone and laptop
                • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
                  Mikhail Fridman
                  UK scales back probe into Mikhail Fridman four months after raid in London

                  National Crime Agency drops two of three lines of inquiry against sanctions-hit Russian billionaire after his arrest in December

                  Mikhail Fridman
                • Monday, 5 December, 2022
                  UK immigration
                  UK home secretary welcomes report calling for crackdown on asylum seekers

                  Refugee groups say suggested policies would represent a breach of Britain’s international obligations

                  A group of people thought to be migrants are brought ashore in Dover by the RNLI
                • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
                  UK crime
                  UK crime agency arrests wealthy Russian businessman at London home

                  58-year-old man and two others held by NCA’s anti-kleptocracy unit

                • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
                  Financial fraud
                  Home Office still in dark on true cost of fraud in UK, says watchdog

                  NAO report highlights ‘significant gaps’ in understanding of scale of problem

                  Website of the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud
                • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
                  UK companies linked to sanctioned oligarch given go-ahead to fight freezing order

                  Court challenge centres on bank accounts containing £1.5mn used to manage Petr Aven’s affairs

                • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
                  Malawi
                  British businessman investigated over alleged Malawi corruption

                  Zuneth Sattar’s contracts with one of Africa’s poorest countries under scrutiny

                  Demonstrators wash their faces after police fired tear gas at them during a demonstration in Lilongwe, Malawi, on November 26 2021
                • Friday, 29 April, 2022
                  Michelle Mone
                  Properties linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone raided in PPE contracts probe

                  PPE Medpro was set up by a business associate of Mone and received more than £200mn in contracts after it was fast-tracked as a supplier

                  Michelle Mone
                • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
                  FT AlphavilleBryce Elder
                  UK impounds Canary Wharf’s Russian-owned superyacht [updated]

                  But is Shapps playing gesture politics?

                • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
                  LexCryptocurrencies
                  Crypto mixers: regulatory clampdown will struggle to keep pace with an agile industry

                  More change is on the cards but industry participants are accustomed to moving fast

                  A bitcoin logo on the window of a cryptocurrency exchange in Barcelona, Spain
                • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
                  Cryptocurrencies
                  NCA calls for regulation of crypto mixers used in ‘churning criminal cash’

                  UK crime agency says technology can disguise transactions that are otherwise traceable on blockchains

                  National Crime Agency building in Westminster, London
                • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
                  Money laundering
                  UK set to cap costs for agencies pursuing unexplained wealth orders

                  Government plans to limit the financial risk to public agencies battling £100bn tide of dirty money

                  Officers from the National Crime Agency take part in a dawn raid
                • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
                  Financial fraud
                  MPs call for single agency to fight fraud and economic crime

                  UK ministers criticised again for delaying key legislation to tackle scale of problem

                • Tuesday, 23 March, 2021
                  Financial fraud
                  HBOS fraud review closed because of lack of evidence

                  NCA finds nothing beyond scope of original trial in which six people were jailed for scam that forced many SMEs to fold

                  HBOS logo on building
                • Sunday, 27 December, 2020
                  Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
                  How can I stop my bank from freezing my accounts?

                  I haven’t been able to get hold of my bank for two weeks.

                • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
                  Money laundering
                  UK crime agency urges deeper reform of illicit funds tracking system

                  Poor quality or unnecessary reports affecting ability to investigate criminal money flows, NCA says

                • Tuesday, 4 August, 2020
                  UK politics
                  Theft of Fox emails proves Russia alerts were ignored, says Grieve

                  Warnings about hacking activity in UK were ‘not taken seriously’, says ex-intelligence committee chair

                • Monday, 3 August, 2020
                  Cyber warfare
                  Liam Fox’s trade dossier stolen and leaked by Russian hackers

                  NCA investigates theft of US-UK trade documents used by Corbyn during 2019 election campaign

                • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
                  Europe
                  Hundreds arrested across Europe as French police crack encrypted network

                  Drugs and weapons seized after investigators infiltrate EncroChat used by organised crime

                  The UK’s National Crime Agency and police raid a property in Birmingham in connection with the EncroChat investigation
                • Wednesday, 8 April, 2020
                  Unexplained wealth orders
                  Kazakh family defeats NCA over ‘Billionaires Row’ unexplained wealth order 

                  High Court rules that evidence concerning £80m London properties is ‘unreliable’

                • Wednesday, 11 March, 2020
                  UK Budget
                  Money laundering campaigners hail £100m ‘economic crime’ levy

                  Money will be used for law enforcement technology and hiring investigators

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                • Tuesday, 10 March, 2020
                  UK property
                  London homes probe linked to former Kazakh ruler’s family

                  National Crime Agency seeks source of wealth of Nursultan Nazarbayev’s daughter and grandson

                  Nurali Aliyev at a gala in Astana, Kazakhstan last year
                • Wednesday, 5 February, 2020
                  Unexplained wealth orders
                  Banker’s wife Zamira Hajiyeva loses appeal over unexplained wealth orders

                  Golf club owner must account for spending, including £16.3m at Harrods over a decade

                  File photo dated 24/06/19 of Zamira Hajiyeva, who is set to find out whether her challenge to the UK's first unexplained wealth order (UWO) has been successful. PA Photo. Issue date: Wednesday February 5, 2020. Hajiyeva, who spent more than £16 million at Harrods in a decade, is attempting to overturn a UWO obtained by the National Crime Agency (NCA) against a property in Knightsbridge, central London, which was purchased for £11.5 million in 2009 by a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. See PA story COURTS McMafia. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
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