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:
Total1,387
Searchable543
Targets188
Entity types:
People378
Articles144
Legal entities12
Companies9
Countries:
37 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:
2026-11-02 10:34:06 · v. 20261102103406-eer · 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 entities668.11 KB
names.txtTarget names text file5.7 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format260.71 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON385.51 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV41.62 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
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Recent additions 

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

AddedNameTypeCountries
Md Mokter HossainPersonUnited Kingdom
Eno GajdaPersonAlbania
Shuhal AhmedPerson
Qasim JanPerson
Shuhal AhmedPersonFrance
Nicusor LacatusPersonRomania
Kamal ChowdhuryPerson
Robiul IslamPerson
Shamim AhmedPerson
Md Ali HossainPerson
Suhel AhmedPerson
Syed AhmedPerson
Jogesh BhandariPersonUnited Kingdom
Craig MorrisPersonUnited Kingdom
Meenakshi BhandariPersonUnited Kingdom
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