Posts Tagged ‘UK News’
31.07.09 Serious organised crime review published
The Government's new strategy for tackling serious organised crime, entitled Extending Our Reach: A Comprehensive Approach to Tackling Serious Organised Crime, has been published. The strategy endorses many of SOCA's current ways of working, including by seeking to cement a collaborative approach and to embrace wide-ranging tactics. The strategy's four main aims ...
18.06.09 Taliban, Al Qaeda finances recovering
Investigation shows Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan get money from extortion, crime and drugs.Taliban refer to extortion money as tolls, taxes or zakat PESHAWAR: For the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, money is coming mostly from extortion, crime and drugs, an AP investigation claims Funding for the Al Qaeda is more diverse ...
5 June 2009 EUROPE’S ‘BIGGEST PEOPLE SMUGGLER’ JAILED FOR PIZZA PLOT
An Afghan criminal who boasted he was Europe’s biggest people smuggler has been jailed for 9 years for smuggling illegal immigrants into the UK. Two other members of the people smuggling gang were today sentenced to a total of 19 years. The gang is known to be responsible for the illegal immigration ...
3 June 2009 36 million spliffs incinerated as international crime gang is convicted
Over 12.5 tonnes of cannabis resin – enough to produce 36 million spliffs – has been incinerated after an investigation by the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The drugs seizure, from the tug boat ‘Abbira’ which had docked at Southampton, represents one of the largest seizures of cannabis resin in the UK. ...
18.05.09 Tax haven crackdown to hit offshore financial centres
The number of offshore financial centres could shrink by half within the next five years as the worldwide crackdown on tax havens gathers pace, according to a prominent Jersey-based financial lobbyist. Geoff Cook, chief executive of Jersey Finance, a promotional body representing the financial services industry on the Channel Island, said: ...
14.04.09 Crime Pays: Cops Given £5.5m Of Seized Assets
More than £5m of assets seized from criminals is to be handed to police across England and Wales, the Home Office has announced. Half of the a total of £31.8m in criminal assets, confiscated between October and December last year, will be shared ...
08.04.09 Liverpool drug gang hit with £140,000 Proceeds of Crime action by Serious and Organised Crime Agency
A LIVERPOOL gang behind a massive Scottish drugs farm was stripped of thousands of pounds. John Fitzgibbon, 60, and Michael Fairhurst, 44, ran the sophisticated cannabis operation for more than two years. The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) raided ...
31.03.09 SOCA Issues Warning To Drug Traffickers
The Serious Organised Crime Agency is warning drug traffickers they will face a long time behind bars if they attempt to import drugs into the United Kingdom. Tobagonians Owen Alfred and Oswin Moore were jailed for 18 and 15 years respectively in London today for their roles in a cocaine trafficking ...
30.03.09 Wirral drug baron’s wife’s Champagne lifestyle comes to end
SHE enjoyed a life of the most vulgar excess, once joining her husband for a £600 chauffeur ride to Claridges for a £345 meal at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant. But yesterday the glamorous wife of a Liverpool drugs baron was ...
16 March 2009 HM Treasury warns businesses of serious threats posed to the international financial system
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has announced that it remains concerned by Iran’s failure to meaningfully address the deficiencies in its Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) regime, particularly in respect of terrorist financing and suspicious activity reporting. The FATF has called on its members to consider effective countermeasures ...
