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:
Total1,261
Searchable497
Targets164
Entity types:
People343
Articles133
Legal entities11
Companies10
Countries:
34 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:
2026-10-05 10:34:04 · v. 20261005103404-hvu · change statistics...
Last change:
Warnings:1 Warning

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 entities605.8 KB
names.txtTarget names text file5.49 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format236.54 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON333.29 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV36.43 KB

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Using the API 

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

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Recent additions 

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

AddedNameTypeCountries
Signature GroupLegal entityUnited Kingdom
David WilsonPersonUnited Kingdom
Kevin Thomas ParlePerson
Alexsandr KuksovPersonRussia
Liam Michael MurrayPerson
Simon DuttonPerson
Philip Barry FosterPerson
Spencer Dillon LambPerson
Derek McGraw FergusonPerson
Matthew PurvesPerson
Dean EighteenPerson
Charlie SalisburyPerson
John RocksPerson
Francis David ParkerPerson
Philip Barry FosterPersonUnited Kingdom · Spain
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