UK, US clamp down on money laundering rings allegedly favored by Russian oligarchs and Western drug gangs
UK and US authorities on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on a pair of billion-dollar money laundering rings that officials say has cleaned money for Russia’s elite, cybercriminals and drug-runners around the world.
UK dismantles massive money laundering operations tied to Russian oligarchs and cybercriminals
British authorities say they have dismantled two massive money laundering operations linked to Russia that were used by oligarchs, organized crime groups, cybercriminals and drug dealers.
Russian money-laundering network used by Kinahan cartel has been dismantled
Sprawling money laundering networks hit by British and US agencies had been used by the Kinahan cartel and other Irish organised crime groups
UK street gangs used multi-billion dollar Russian crime ring to launder money
Russian-speaking hackers who had millions in cryptocurrency used the network to turn it into cash and assets - as well as street gangs in Britain.
U.S., Britain say they target global money laundering network used by Russians
The U.S. and Britain announced on Wednesday they had disrupted what they described as a global money laundering ring used by rich Russians to evade sanctions, and which London said laundered cash for drug traffickers,
Russian criminals helped UK drug gangs launder lockdown cash
UK drug gangs paid Russian criminals to swap their dirty street cash for untraceable crypto currency, police say.
UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies
A UK-led operation has uncovered a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme run out of London, Moscow and Dubai that enabled Russian spies and European drug traffickers to evade sanctions using cryptocurrency.
84 arrested in UK-led crypto laundering investigation involving Russian oligarchs, spies
The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) announced on Dec. 4 that it had dismantled a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme that has enabled criminal networks, including Russian spies and oligarchs,
Two brothers found guilty of raping teenage girls almost 20 years ago
Mark Evans, 36, and Robert Evans, 40, were convicted on Wednesday after a two-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
Organised crime gang members jailed after helping smuggle up to £7bn worth of drugs into UK
Members of an organised crime gang which smuggled up to £7bn worth of drugs into the UK from the continent have been jailed.
Crypto-Rich Russian Networks Moving Billions Shut Down by UK
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Final member of organised crime group sentenced after drugs hidden in digger bound for Australia
The last member of an organised crime group who plotted to send 448 kilos of MDMA to Australia has been jailed for 23 years following an National Crime Agency investigation.
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NCA takes out network that laundered ransomware payments
NCA-led Operation Destabilise disrupts Russian crime networks who funded the drugs and firearms trade in the UK, helped ...
Moment police unravel Britain’s biggest-ever drugs ring
National Crime Agency (NGA) officers have thwarted what they described as Britain's biggest-ever detected drug conspiracy in ...
18 Convicted In Biggest UK Drugs Trial
A court has sentenced 18 members of an international crime group behind Britain's "biggest ever detected drugs conspiracy" to up to 32 years in jail after the country's longest-running criminal trial, ...