Press releases published by the UK National Crime Agency (NCA).
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Press releases published by the UK National Crime Agency (NCA).
This dataset contains enforcement-related press releases sourced from the official website of the National Crime Agency (NCA). It covers actions, arrests, convictions, and operations related to major criminal threats such as money laundering, modern slavery, drug trafficking, organised immigration crime, fraud, and asset denial. The dataset aggregates items from multiple news categories published under the NCA's News section.
Press releases are filtered by topic to focus on organized and financially motivated crime. Articles related to firearm offenses, local drug enforcement, and child exploitation are excluded as they fall outside OpenSanctions' core scope.
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| Publisher: | National Crime Agency (NCA) · United Kingdom The National Crime Agency leads the UK's fight to cut serious and organised crime, protecting the public by disrupting and bringing to justice those serious and organised criminals who pose the highest risk to the UK. | ||||||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default · Warrants and Criminal Entities | ||||||||
| Information: | www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk | ||||||||
| Source data: | www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk · HTML | ||||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: weekly | ||||||||
| Last processed: | 2026-06-23 10:12:59 · v. 20260623101259-gvy | ||||||||
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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 608.31 KB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 5.78 KB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 240.44 KB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 322.65 KB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 35.98 KB |
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The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Spencer Dillon Lamb | Person | Spain · Belgium · United Kingdom | |
| Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid | Person | Egypt | |
| Mark Youell | Person | United Kingdom | |
| Rohit Chawla | Person | United Kingdom | |
| Freddy Lawrence | Person | United Kingdom | |
| Surjeet Chawla | Person | United Kingdom | |
| Carl Bailey | Person | ||
| Terry Brewer | Person | ||
| Alnour Mohamed Ali | Person | Sudan | |
| Simon Dutton | Person | Spain | |
| Kevin Thomas Parle | Person | Spain | |
| Matthew Purves | Person | Spain | |
| Derek McGraw Ferguson | Person | ||
| Liam Michael Murray | Person | ||
| Alexsandr Kuksov | Person |
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