🚨 Det Insp Daniel Fenn, says some barber shops are claiming income of 💷 £100,000 to £150,000 a month❗
🗣️ "They aren't getting that amount of customers to warrant that amount of money."

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3677xzk56no

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Two Swansea men convicted as part of £100m cocaine sea smuggling bid

Four drug smugglers were found with more than a ton of the Class A drug on board their boat, the Lily Lola, in September last year.

Two of the offenders 45-year-old Michael Kelly from Portway in Manchester and 27-year-old Jake Marchant of no fixed address pleaded guilty before trial.

But today (12 March) two other men from Swansea, 46-year-old Jon Williams of Windmill Terrace in St Thomas and 31-year-old Patrick Godfrey of Danygraig Road in Port Tennant were also convicted after a trial of smuggling the 1,076kg haul.

Truro Crown Court heard that shortly after 2pm on 13 September 2024, the Border Force cutter HMC Valiant was onpatrol off the north coast of Cornwall and deployed a RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) to intercept the Lily Lola.

Williams, the captain and who had bought the boat for around £140,000 two months earlier, was at the helm. Marchant, of no fixed abode, was next to him. Kelly, of Portway, Manchester, was in the accommodation area and Godfrey was asleep in a deck chair.

The Lily Lola was taken into Plymouth Royal Dockyard and the seized substances, which were divided into bales, removed and tested showing them to be high purity cocaine.

A device that had been on board the Lily Lola was downloaded and some messages were recovered. These demonstrated the boat receiving instructions and co-ordinates from a third party.

Also, Godfrey’s phone showed he sent a message to someone saying “delete everything u see and not show anybody”. His phone also made the internet search “how long does it take a ship to leave peru to uk”.

A tracker was found in the drugs haul which National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators established was linked to a user in South America.

Williams, Godfrey and Marchant made no comment in interview and Kelly claimed he was on a fishing trip. But faced with the evidence against them, Kelly and Marchant pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court on 15 October 2024.

The four men will return to the court on 8 May 2025 to be sentenced.

NCA branch commander Derek Evans said: “The NCA and Border Force have prevented a huge haul of cocaine from hitting the streets of the UK and wider Europe, where it would have blighted countless lives and communities.

“We’ve disrupted a drug supply chain and ensured organised criminals are deprived of the significant profits they would have gained had these drugs made it into the country.

“The NCA is working around the clock with partners here and overseas to erode the criminal networks benefiting from the destructive drugs trade.”

(Lead image: NCA)

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BAFTA-Winner Nick Leather Behind TV Drama Exploring “Most Successful Law Enforcement Operation In UK History”
#News #BonafideFilms #NationalCrimeAgency #NickLeather

https://deadline.com/2025/02/nick-leather-national-crime-agency-encrochat-drama-1236277604/

[18:32] Money laundering network used by Kinahan gang dismantled

An international investigation involving gardaí, the UK's National Crime Agency and other US and European law enforcement has dismantled a Russian money laundering network used by drug traffickers including the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.

https://www.rte.ie/news/crime/2024/1204/1484725-money-laundering/

#UK #NationalCrimeAgency #US #European #Russian #theKinahanOrganisedCrimeGroup

Man Jailed for Rape of Teenage Girl in Rotherham 21 Years Ago

A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison for raping a 14-year-old girl in Rotherham over two decades ago.

#NationalCrimeAgency #OperationStovewood

https://tscnewschannel.com/2024/09/14/man-jailed-for-rape-of-teenage-girl-in-rotherham-21-years-ago/

Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/owners-of-1-time-passcode-theft-service-plead-guilty/

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#UK government weighs action against #Russian #hackers over #NHSEngland records theft

#NationalCrimeAgency may take retaliatory measures after #Qilin gang steals data covering 300m patient interactions
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/21/uk-national-crime-agency-russian-ransomware-hackers-qilin-nhs-patient-records