The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that Eamon Goodfellow, from St Albans, has been found guilty of two counts of attempting to cause the sexual exploitation of a child under 13 following a six day trial at St Albans Crown Court. The NCA has provided that Goodfellow was arrested on 14 June 2018 and his electronic devices were seized. It was found on recovered chat logs that Goodfellow had been actively seeking children under 13 and sent payment to facilitators in the Philippines and Romania to carry out sexual abuse on the children, with a view to live-streaming the offending. Goodfellow is expected to be sentenced on 31 May 2022.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that, alongside the US Secret Service (USSS), FBI and Spanish Guardia Civil, they have uncovered a suspected corruption scheme where criminals would bribe officials in Moldova to avoid detection by Interpol’s Red Notice system. The investigation found that high harm cyber criminals were paying the officials to find out the status of their arrest warrants to inform their travel plans. Four people have been detained in Moldova and 33 search warrants have been executed across the country by the anti corruption office of Moldova and France, with support from the NCA, Eurojust, the FBI, and USSS.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that, for the first time there, has been a statutory presumption that the assets subject to an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) may be recoverable property. The NCA has stated that on 7 June 2023 the NCA obtained an UWO against Yaqub Younis and his company, Regal Capital UK Limited. Younis is currently ‘on the run’ after being recalled to prison for breach of licence in February 2023. Younis’ son brought an application to have Younis replaced as the respondent on the UWO and to obtain a further six weeks to respond, which was refused by a High Court judge. The requirements of the UWO were not complied with and the result of this was that, for the first time in British legal history, there has been a statutory presumption that the assets, subject to the UWO, may be recoverable property. In addition to this, the NCA has reported that the judge has also granted an application by the NCA for a Property Freezing Order over 14 properties of Younis, with a total value of £1.25m.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that former solicitor, Philip Shiner, has pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud at Southwark Crown Court. Shiner applied for approximately £200,000 in Legal Aid funding to represent clients against the Ministry of Defence for ill treatment of Iraqi detainees after the 2003 Iraq war. Shiner received around £3m in the value of the contract and failed to disclose that an agent, acting on Shiner's behalf and with his knowledge, was cold calling and making unsolicited approaches to potential clients in Iraq. Shiner also failed to disclose that a witness statement provided to the Legal Services Commission (now the Legal Aid Agency) was gained by an unsolicited approach and that he was paying referral fees. The Legal Aid contract, obtained through fraud, allowed Shiner to pursue the judicial review.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has provided an update on Operation Destabilise, confirming continued disruption of Russian-linked money laundering networks previously dismantled in 2024. Over the past year, the NCA and its partners have arrested a further 45 suspects and seized more than £5.1m in cash, alongside international confiscations totalling US$24m and over €2.6 m. The operation continues to target ‘cash-to-crypto’ laundering schemes that convert criminal proceeds from drug trafficking, firearms, and organised immigration crime into cryptocurrency, obscuring links to sanctioned Russian entities. Core networks Smart and TGR remain under international sanction, with leaders Ekaterina Zhdanova and George Rossi facing enforcement action across Europe. The NCA has also launched a bilingual public campaign warning cash couriers of the severe penalties of handling illicit funds. According to Deputy Director,  Sal Melki, the operation demonstrates the direct link between local criminality, organised crime, and state-sponsored financial activity, reinforcing the UK’s commitment to dismantling networks that threaten national and international financial integrity.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that Nicholas Clayton, who was the principal of an international school in Iraq, has been jailed for 20 months after grooming and attempting to sexually exploit children around the world using social media. The NCA has provided that it launched an investigation into Clayton after receiving intelligence that a 13 year old boy from Cambodia had been contacted through Facebook by a man who asked for photos of his naked upper torso. Clayton had also arranged to pay for the boy to travel to Malaysia so they could meet. Investigators obtained further messages which revealed Clayton had communicated with 130 other boys from the ages of ten to 13 over three months.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that a nurse who is serving an 18-year prison sentence for trafficking has had nearly £184,000 confiscated. In 2018, Josephine Iyamu was the first British national to be sentenced under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA 2015) for offences committed overseas. Iyamu trafficked women from Nigeria and forced them into sex work in Germany. Iyamu has been given three months to make the payment, or her sentence will be extended by two years in addition to being liable for the money.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that a coordinated effort by law enforcement agencies across the UK, led by the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) and City of London Police has led to 438 arrests, account freezing orders of £5.1m and seizure of cash and assets worth £13.9m. The NCA has reported that Operation Henhouse aims to combat fraudulent activity across the UK as it is the most common crime type reported in the Crime Survey of England and Wales, accounting approximately 40% of all crime report.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported on an arrest made as part of the investigation into a cyber security incident affecting Transport for London (TfL). A 17 year old male has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack on Transport for London (TfL) on 1 September 2024, as part of an investigation led by the National Crime Agency (NCA). The suspect is accused of violating the Computer Misuse Act. The NCA is working in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre and TfL to respond to the incident, mitigate potential risks, and prevent further harm.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that a senior staff member of scam company, 'JuicyFields', has been arrested. NCA indicated that investments in the Ponzi scheme could amount to €645m but that unreported damages could significantly increase this sum. NCA reported that from 2020 to 2022 more than 500,000 individuals across dozens of countries had registered on 'JuicyFields' websites and over 180,000 investors transferred funds. In July 2022, the scheme removed the company's profiles from social media networks and prevented users from logging in resulting in frozen cash withdrawals. The joint investigation team was established at Eurojust and was led by Spanish, German and French authorities. The investigation team was supported by Europol, the NCA and policing partners from multiple member states. NCA officers, joined by Spanish police, arrested an individual in Atherstone, Warwickshire who was responsible for legitimising the company and paying salaries. NCA officers recovered digital devices that will be forensically analysed. Extradition proceedings began on 11 April 2024 in Westminster magistrates' court.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that the former director of corporate banking at First Bank of Nigeria (UK), Adetunji Fadahunsi-Jones, has been charged with bribery offences following an investigation. The NCA stated that the former director led the bank's relationship with a businessman in the Nigerian oil, gas and petroleum industry who is also under investigation by the NCA. The NCA suspects that the former director accepted bribes whilst employed by the bank and in return overlooked the account holder's conduct breaching the duties and code of his employment and section 2 of the Bribery Act 2010.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported that is has coordinated global action against illegal software used by cybercriminals to carry out attacks on IT systems. Unlicensed versions of Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool used to check for vulnerabilities in a company’s network and help improve cyber security, were targeted during a week of action from the week commencing on 24 June 2024. Action was taken against 690 individual instances of malicious Cobalt Strike software located at 129 internet service providers in 27 countries. Other agencies involved in the action included the FBI, Australian Federal Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, German Federal Criminal Police Office, Netherlands National Police and the Police Central Cybercrime Bureau.