He was a really old man when he died, a one-time mob boss of London’s Little Italy. Sometimes he was called “The General of Clerkenwell.” In a life that long, there must be a richness, a flavor of spice that carries his endeavors through decades of t
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An Albanian drug dealer who supplied more than £1 million of cocaine in just four months was imprisoned last Friday. Investigators of Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) identified Xhuljan Shehu as a prolific drug dealer who used the encrypted comm
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A West Yorkshire-based organized crime group that trafficked cocaine were sentenced Wednesday to a combined 49 years behind bars. Their prison terms follow a National Crime Agency investigation under Operation Venetic – the UK’s response to the taked
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Two members of an organized crime group who supplied fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to the criminal underworld have had their sentences increased. The passports, which were issued authentically but applied for using false information,
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A former haulage firm owner in England who was imprisoned for moving drugs and dirty cash across Europe has been ordered to pay back £630,000. 42-year-old Thomas Maher was sentenced to 14 years and eight months in prison in December 2020.
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Four men who conspired to supply drugs from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom and Ireland have been convicted following an investigation by Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The “kingpin” of this operation was 49-year-old Anthony Terry, from
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Two British crime bosses who conspired to buy and supply drugs and guns on the encrypted communications platform EncroChat have been imprisoned. Raj Singh, 45, and Waqas Iqbal, 41, plotted multi-kilo consignments of cocaine and heroin between March a
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A British pilot and career criminal was imprisoned on Friday alongside two other men in connection with a plot to fly four Albanian illegal immigrants into the United Kingdom. As the pilot was arrested he joked: “I normally get arrested for drugs, so
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British authorities dismantled a network of criminal cash couriers that laundered over £100 million by smuggling it out of the United Kingdom (UK) to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The investigation was led by the National Crime Agency (NCA
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Four members of an organized crime group that ran an industrial scale amphetamine lab in Scotland, and trafficked heroin and cocaine, have been sentenced yesterday. A National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation dismantled the crew which was based in Me
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Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has obtained a civil recovery order for gold worth an estimated £4 million that was being laundered by South American drug cartels, the NCA announced Tuesday. Financial investigators took up the case after the sh
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A man who supplied firearms to organized crime groups across the United Kingdom was imprisoned yesterday for over 19 years after law enforcement cracked the encrypted communications platform EncroChat. 50-year-old Michael Derrane orchestrated, suppli
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Four members of an organized crime group that ran an industrial scale amphetamine lab in Scotland, and trafficked heroin and cocaine, have been convicted after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.
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One of Great Britain’s biggest drug smugglers last week admitted his part in a large-scale international cocaine trafficking plot. 36-year-old Michael Paul Moogan, from Croxteth, Liverpool, went on the run in October 2013 and remained a fugitive for
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An alleged drugs and firearms supplier and one of the Britain’s most wanted men has been arrested in Marbella, Spain. 29-year-old Dean Garforth was riding an e-bike on a street in Nueva Andalucia, Marbella, when he was arrested on Monday afternoon in
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Members of a British organized crime group who bought scores of blank firing handguns to convert into live weapons have been jailed on Tuesday for a total of almost 14 years. National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators established that 31-year-old Perh
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The ringleader of a money laundering group which smuggled tens of millions of British pounds of criminal cash out of the United Kingdom has been jailed for 9 years on Thursday. 47-year-old Abdullah Mohammed Ali Bin Beyat Alfalasi arranged travel for
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Irish mob boss Thomas “Bomber” Kavanagh was sentenced to 21 years in prison on Monday. He had pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy and money laundering charges. Authorities claim Kavanagh was a high-ranking leader within Dublin’s Kinahan Clan and was ta
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Guns are a serious business. Always, but especially in Europe where laws are much more strict. Of course, when it comes to guns and organized crime authorities around the world tend to work by a zero tolerance policy. Three members of a London-based
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