Crime

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Crypto ‘Laundromat’ linked to Russian financial sector and cocaine trade, police say
Britain’s National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.
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Multi-billion-pound Russian money-laundering operation uncovered with ties across the UK
The UK’s NCA has led an international crackdown on the "unprecedented" money-laundering operation which swapped cash from British street-level drug deals for cryto from elite Russian hackers
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Prolific London fraudsters who dealt with over 5,000 stolen phones jailed
The Met police said the cost of their crimes totalled at least £5.1 million.
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Two arrested on drug charges following Belfast nightclub death
Two men in their 20s have been arrested on suspicion of drug-related offences following the death of a woman at a Belfast nightclub.
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Schoolgirl, 8, stabbed to death while ’trying to protect mum’ pictured for first time
Malika Noor Al Katib is said to have tried to defend her mum from an intruder at their home in New Ross, Co Wexford, Ireland, on Sunday night
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Britain’s ’largest drug smuggling gang’ sentenced after £7 billion plot
A gang which smuggled up to £7 billion worth of drugs from the continent over two-a-half years have been jailed.
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Teen who shot mum dead as she protected her children bragged about it in song lyrics
A 17-year-old gangster who bragged about shooting a woman dead while she tried to protect her children has been jailed for 29 years.
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Man arrested for alleged rape of woman at London’s Groucho Club
A man has been arrested on suspicion of rape in Soho’s famous Groucho Club days after Westminster Council suspended its licence.
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Three-month-old boy dies after being discovered unresponsive at a Seacombe, Wirral home
Police are treating the death of a young child as “unexpected” after they were found unresponsive at home in south London.
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Italy leads police operation to dismantle major illegal streaming network
A global police operation has shut down one of the largest illegal streaming services, used by millions worldwide.
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Woman and two men sentenced for luring a man to a Sheffield park and murdering him with a machete
Two men and a woman have been jailed for luring a man into a Sheffield park before killing him with machetes.
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Police say Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused more than 111 women
Scale of the criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders
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Suspect arrested in cross-border Balkan drug smuggling investigation
Authorities in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia collaborate in a Europol-backed operation targeting an organized criminal group accused of smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe. One suspect has been arrested, with more arrests expected.
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Netflix "Too Hot to Handle" reality star arrested ’after being caught smuggling £150,000 worth of drugs into the UK’
A Netflix reality star has been arrested for attempting to smuggle £150,000 worth of drugs from Thailand.
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Man, 32, arrested for ’attempted murder’ after 8-year-old girl and her father were shot in a car attack
A second man has been arrested after an eight-year-old girl was ‘caught in the crossfire’ of a shooting in west London on Sunday night.
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One of FBI’s most wanted terrorists found in Wales after 20 years on the run
Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, was wanted for two bombings in the San Francisco area in 2003 - and was finally arrested by the UK National Crime Agency this week
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Interpol arrests over 1,000 suspects in Africa as part of cybercrime crackdown
Operation Serengeti, a joint effort with Afripol, the African Union’s police agency, took place from September 2 to October 31 across 19 African countries.
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Barry Island: Two boys charged after a 12-year-old girl was injured in a ’serious assault’
The girl’s injuries are described as "not life-threatening" and South Wales Police says the two suspects were arrested within an hour.
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NGOs: trafficked women in Mexico face "judicial indifference"
Organized crime, systemic corruption, and a culture of machismo are fueling a devastating crisis for women and girls in Mexico, where only a tiny minority of human trafficking cases are investigated by authorities.
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Kensington shooting: Girl, 8, injured and man seriously hurt as police search for gunman
Met Police were called to Kensington following reports of a shooting - a man and a young girl were found suffering from serious injuries at the scene on the weekend
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LuLaRoe found guilty of fraud and ordered to pay $164 million to supplier
Following a jury verdict against them, LuLaRoe has been ordered to pay $164 million in damages.
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Man shot dead and another critically injured in Birmingham shooting, with a murder suspect arrested
West Midlands Police say they worked through the night to determine the cause of the shootings and are urging anyone with information to come forward.
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Two men who operated a people-smuggling ring from a car wash in Caerphilly plead guilty
Dilshad Shamo, 41, and Ali Khdir, 40, had previously denied all five counts but pleaded guilty to all charges on the tenth day of their trial.
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Infamous killer Lyle Menendez allegedly starts prison romance with British student 35 years his junior
Infamous US killer Lyle Menendez, 56, has begun an alleged prison romance with a British student 35 years his junior who lives 5,323 miles away from the San Diego prison he is held in
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Lambeth Palace accused of paying hush money to alleged victim of sexual assault by senior adviser
An abuse survivor has told LBC that a compensation payment from Lambeth Palace felt like “hush money”, after he accused a senior aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury of sexual assault.