Search results for ‘national crime agency’
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Cyber crime – a bigger threat than nuclear attack?
MPs warn the government not to underestimate the impact of e-crime and cyber attacks by hostile states. But have the risks been exaggerated?
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FactCheck: Why copper theft is the perfect crime
Metal theft has caused at least six deaths, 50 injuries, 60 fires and – a contender for stat of the year here – a total of 673 days of train delays in the last three years. But unless personally blighted by it – as Jon Snow was over the weekend – you’d be forgiven for being oblivious to the problem. Graham Jones, MP for Hyndburn in Lancashire, says it was the “constant concerns” of his wife and son – who both work for Electricity North West – that brought it to his attention. He is not alone in calling for a reform of the Metal Theft Act of 1964, which was slammed in the Lords last month for being “still legally in the age of Steptoe and Son”. But are we really dealing with a cable crime wave or has Mr Jones got his wires crossed? FactCheck dons its hard hat.
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Cybercrime ‘hackers’ arrested in UK and US
A teenage boy from Britain is one of 15 people arrested on suspicion of being connected to hacking group Anonymous, which targeted PayPal’s website in retaliation for suspending WikiLeaks’ accounts.
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FBI-style crime agency to lead fight against drug gangs
The Home Secretary is due to give more details of the new National Crime Agency, the Coalition’s successor to Labour’s heavily criticised SOCA unit.
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Home Office ‘falsely imprisoned’ foreign national prisoners
The Home Office has been found to have operated an unlawful and secret policy of keeping nearly all foreign prisoners locked up beyond their sentence.
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BNP claims immigration to blame for ‘rising crime’
BNP blames immigration for a rising crime rate but FactCheck finds numerous holes in its assertion.
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Investigating claims of Sri Lankan 'war crimes'
On 3 June 2005 I sat in the Channel 4 newsroom watching a video of six young Bosnian Muslim men being taunted and then murdered in cold blood by members of a Serb militia called the Scorpions in a village near Srebrenica ten years earlier. Their paramilitary tormentors sneered at their captives; they smoked cigarettes…
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‘The police are currently winning and this is only the start – we are coming for more of you’ – NCA director of investigations’ message to criminals
The investigation was led in the UK by the National Crime Agency – and its Director of Investigations Nikki Holland.
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NCA says ‘no evidence’ Leave.EU and Arron Banks broke law
The National Crime Agency has announced that it has dropped an investigation into the source of businessman Arron Banks’s £8 million donation to the campaign group Leave.EU.
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Isle of Man at centre of row over Leave.EU funding
The National Crime Agency is investigating Arron Banks, who helped fund the Leave.EU campaign, after the Electoral Commission said they suspect he is not the true source of £8 million of funding. The Electoral Commission suspects that some of the money may have been routed through a holding company on the Isle of Man.
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Rotherham: 300 possible abuse suspects identified
An investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham identifies 300 possible suspects, the National Crime Agency says.
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London: ‘a global haven for criminal financial activity’
London is a global haven for criminal financial activity – with billions of pounds laundered through British banks each day, according to the head of the UK’s National Crime Agency.
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Third of UK could be hit with spam wave, police warn
Don’t open that email attachment! The UK’s National Crime Agency has given out an urgent national alert about a wave of spam emails due to hit the UK on Friday.
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May launches inquiries into Wales child abuse claims
The National Crime Agency chief will lead a new investigation into child abuse claims in north Wales linked to a senior Tory politician, says Theresa May.
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Van driver jailed for 10 years after attempting to smuggle seven people into UK
Today, a van driver, who was caught attempting to smuggle seven Vietnamese people into the UK – nearly suffocating them – was jailed for 10 years.
