UK National Crime Agency Press Releases

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.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total1,315
Searchable529
Targets170
Entity types:
People364
Articles144
Legal entities12
Companies9
Countries:
35 countries · Show overview...
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:
2026-09-21 11:41:27 · v. 20260921114127-iji · change statistics...
Last change:

Bulk download 

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 nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities631.6 KB
names.txtTarget names text file5.92 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format250.95 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON343.33 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV37.85 KB

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Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Philip Barry FosterPersonSpain · United Kingdom
Van Huy NguyenPersonUnited Kingdom
Vinh Van NguyenPersonUnited Kingdom
Adem SavasPersonTürkiye · Belgium
Quang Van NguyenPersonUnited Kingdom
Sy Trai HoPersonUnited Kingdom
Lia-Chien TrongPersonUnited Kingdom
Edwin OmokhualePersonUnited Kingdom
Touqir NasirPerson
Waqas HanifPerson
Nadir ValiyevPersonAzerbaijan
Burston Trading FZECompanyUnited Arab Emirates
ENEX Premium Trading LimitedLegal entitySaint Kitts and Nevis
Damian CiuronPersonPoland
Konrad DabrowskiPersonPoland
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