Modern slavery risks have risen in 20 EU member states, according to a new global ranking compiled by Verisk Maplecroft. The risk analytics firm’s Modern Slavery Index 2017 identified Romania,... read more →
Police in the UK have identified scores of previously unknown paedophiles after seizing more than 100 child-like sex dolls ordered from overseas. The silicone dolls, which can cost thousands of... read more →
Deaths in the UK linked to synthetic opioid fentanyl have trebled in the last five years, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been warned. The painkiller, which is said to... read more →
Police have seized a huge shipment of illegal firearms from a car on the French side of the Channel Tunnel. British customs officers found 79 viable weapons in the vehicle’s... read more →
A new report from the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed that violent Albanian criminal groups are exerting considerable control over the drug trafficking market in Britain. In its... read more →
A fugitive suspected British drug smuggler swam from Spain to Gibraltar to hand himself over to police after seeing an appeal for information about his whereabouts on a UK television... read more →
Europol and the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) have disrupted a people smuggling group involved in trafficking migrants from Greece to other EU nations after months of investigations. The operation... read more →
An international drugs gang kingpin has been jailed for 10 years after being found guilty of smuggling huge amounts of high-purity cocaine and cash between Wales and Ibiza. Nicholas Strange,... read more →
Law enforcement officers from Spain and the UK have arrested five people as part of Europol-backed investigation into the activities of a cyber crime gang. The five suspects, made up... read more →
Three men have been jailed for a total of 42 years after being convicted of attempting to smuggle cocaine worth almost €100 million into the UK. Ringleader Michael McDermott, 68,... read more →
