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How drug traffickers used foie gras and duck breast to conceal £8m worth of cocaine

Officers said using foie gras and duck breast as a cover was ‘highly unusual’

The Independent UK

Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums

Exclusive: Police set up taskforce to tackle online violence as young men seek victims on eating disorder forums

The Guardian - UK

Why barbershops are often used as fronts for money laundering

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The Independent UK

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Drug trafficker jailed for smuggling £22.8m cocaine in dry ice for 'London hospital'

Bart Verschueren, 40, was sentenced on Thursday at Canterbury Crown Court

Evening Standard

Hundreds of barbershops targeted in raids across the UK

During the course of the operation officers secured freezing orders over bank accounts totalling more than £1 million

The Independent UK

Police freeze £1m as high street raids find cannabis farms and evidence of slavery

Thirty-five arrests after hundreds of barbershops and other businesses raided in UK money-laundering investigation

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of barbershops targeted by police in crackdown on money laundering and modern slavery

Ten shops were shut down, and further closures are expected after police forces across the country visited 265 cash-focused businesses

Evening Standard

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Hundreds of barbershops targeted by police operation against money laundering

The operation targeted barbershops in an effort to prevent criminal gangs from using cash-intensive businesses for money laundering, the NCA said.,

Evening Standard

BBC wrongly reports Britons consume 117 million tonnes of cocaine each year

Reported figure would mean the country consumed the equivalent of over 4.7kg of cocaine per person, per day

The Independent UK

Drug smuggler hid cocaine worth £22.8m under dry ice he claimed was for London hospital

Bart Verschueren has been jailed for 18 years for the smuggling plot

The Independent UK

Third ex-police officer arrested in Rotherham child sexual exploitation inquiry

Former officer with South Yorkshire force arrested on suspicion of raping teenage girl in 2004

The Guardian - UK

UK to work with allies and social media to tackle people smuggling adverts

A new agreement will see nations and social media giants work more closely together to tackle criminal gangs using online platforms to advertise.

Evening Standard

Airport security uncover £1m drug stash inside electric wheelchair

The National Crime Agency says the concealment ‘shows the ingenuity crime groups employ to smuggle cocaine’

The Independent UK

Airport security check uncovers £1m cocaine stash hidden in electric wheelchair

The wheelchair contained 11 packages, weighing 12kg, concealed in the seat and backrest.

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The Independent UK

Brothers jailed for raping teenagers in Rotherham

Mark and Robert Evans befriended the girls, one as young as 13, in the South Yorkshire town almost two decades ago.

Evening Standard

Are barber shops the latest front for London crime gangs?

Drugs. People trafficking. Terrorism. That £10 haircut might be too good to be true, writes Jacob Phillips

The Independent UK

Former Russian minister ‘shocked’ to learn he was subject to sanctions in UK

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, the former mayor of Sevastopol in illegally annexed Crimea, is facing seven counts of circumventing sanctions.

Evening Standard

What are Com networks and what threat do they pose?

The National Crime Agency has warned of the threats posed by online networks of teenage boys involved in disturbing crimes.

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Evening Standard

Teenage boys are targeting girls online for sexual abuse and violence, warns National Crime Agency

Reports have surged in the last three years of gangs of boys sharing extreme violence pictures and misogynistic online

The Independent UK

Threat from teenage boys in ‘sadistic’ online groups surges sixfold, National Crime Agency warns

Intelligence shows a rise in ‘com networks’ used by ‘young men who are motivated by status, power, control, misogyny, sexual gratification or an obsession with extreme or violent material’

The Guardian - UK

Online gangs of teenage boys sharing extreme material are ‘emerging threat’ in UK

National Crime Agency says such groups are fuelling crimes including fraud, violence and child sexual abuse

The Independent UK

‘Sadistic gangs of boys share extreme material online that normalises violence’

The loosely connected ‘com networks’ are also involved in crimes as wide-ranging as child abuse and fraud.

Evening Standard

Man charged after child, six, and woman people-smuggled to UK in lorry

The child and woman, who were Albanian nationals, were found on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Man charged with money laundering after £1m found in suitcases at Heathrow

Mazen Al Shaar was stopped by officials on Saturday as he attempted to board a flight to Beirut

The Independent UK

Sextortion: What is it and how to discuss it with your teen

Having open and honest conversations with your children about their online lives is key

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