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Showing 21 - 30 of 54 results for crime type "International and organised crime" & area "CPS"
A Black Country based group has been convicted of running a multi-million-pound fake medicines business, including powerful anti-anxiety tablets such as Xanax.Two people were convicted yesterday of their part in the operation to supply controlled drugs at Wolverhampton Crown Court. Eight others,…
Five members of an organised criminal gang, which falsely claimed more than £53 million in Universal Credit in the largest benefit fraud in England and Wales, have been jailed.Bulgarian nationals Galina Nikolova, 39, Stoyan Stoyanov, 28, Tsvetka Todorova, 53, Gyunesh Ali, 34, and Patritsia Paneva,…
Press ReleaseFraud and economic crimeInternational and organised crimeCPS
A Luton-based organised criminal gang leader and associates have been imprisoned today for the trading of illegal drugs, guns, and ammunition.Mohammed Waqas Khan (DOB: 02/12/1988) was sentenced for conspiracy to supply illegal drugs and firearms offences to 27 years and 6 months imprisonment and…
A ringleader who organised the importation and supply of Class A drugs disguised in printer ink has today (24/04/2024) been found guilty at Isleworth Crown Court.Jonathan Strogylos, 36, was one of a group of twelve men involved in a large-scale operation to supply cocaine.Strogylos ran and…
Press ReleaseDrug offencesInternational and organised crimeCPS
Three men have today been jailed for their involvement in a drug enterprise which saw the large scale selling of drugs on the dark web and their onward transmission via post in disguised packaging.Joe McNally, 33, Robert Brewster, 55, and Benjamin Martin-Bynoe, 34, were sentenced at Reading Crown…
Press ReleaseInternational and organised crimeDrug offencesCPS
Three men who laundered funds fraudulently obtained from 350 people who were tricked into investing more than £12 million in non-existent or worthless shares have been sentenced today.Some victims invested tens of thousands of pounds they had saved for their retirement and will have to continue…
Press ReleaseInternational and organised crimeFraud and economic crimeCPS
Two men have been jailed for their role in operating an organised crime group which laundered more than £12 million of criminally obtained cash in the UK. Semen Kuksov, 23, and Andrii Dzektsa, 27, were sentenced to five years and seven months and five years imprisonment respectively at…
Press ReleaseFraud and economic crimeInternational and organised crimeCPS
A man who blackmailed women and children into engaging in degrading sexual acts has today been jailed.Anthony Burns (AKA Danny Burns), 39, has been sentenced to 24 years imprisonment plus a five-year extended licence for 41 offences including blackmail, causing a child to engage in sexual activity,…
Press ReleaseSexual offencesInternational and organised crimeCPS
An illegal money service bureau owner who operated as a banker for criminals smuggling migrants into the UK has today been convicted. Asghar Gheshlaghian, 48, was found guilty of money laundering and immigration-related offences following a trial at Southwark Crown Court on 18 January…
Press ReleaseFraud and economic crimeInternational and organised crimeCPS
Two men, whose conspiracy to smuggle drugs and cigarettes into the UK was foiled after a farmer accidentally spotted a consignment of cocaine, have been handed lengthy prison sentences today.
The scheme involved the pair using their freight company as a cover to clear shipping containers that…
Press ReleaseInternational and organised crimeDrug offencesFraud and economic crimeCPS
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Media protocol
To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.
