The National Crime Agency reported on 22 September that two brothers have been sentenced to a total of 43 years in prison for smuggling illegal firearms into the UK. 30-year-old…
A lorry driver has been jailed for 14 and a half years after trying to smuggle 50kg of cocaine worth £4m by hiding it in his bed. Karol Niewiadomski (30),…
A lorry driver who attempted to smuggle ketamine and mephedrone worth £2 million into the UK by hiding it in his mattress has been jailed. The National Crime Agency investigated…
Seized drugs Credit: NCA The National Crime Agency reports a lorry driver has been charged following the seizure of cocaine and heroin worth £5.7 million. A 64-year-old Irish national, now…
A truck driver who tried to smuggle almost 100kg of cocaine into the UK has been jailed for 11 years as part of a National Crime Agency investigation. Miodrag Ivankovic,…
Ancient artefacts smuggled into the UK have been formally returned to the people of Bulgaria following the conclusion of a Kent Police investigation. Coins, pendants, brooches, statues and spearheads worth…
A Serbian lorry driver has been charged with drug smuggling offences by National Crime Agency officers after cocaine worth £3.2 million was found in a lorry heading to the UK.…
Three 9mm firearms have been seized and two men charged as part of a National Crime Agency investigation. The firearms, believed to be forward venting blank firers converted to fire…
An Afghan national suspected of being one of the leaders of an international people smuggling network has been arrested in north London. The man, aged 32, who was in the…
Constituency matters… a weekly column by the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins 7 July 2021. On Monday Boris Johnson announced the government’s intentions for the final…
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