#organised-crime

#organised-crime

"It's funny: the money [that] they have is all in the ether," she says. "It's never really in their hands. They're always in debt or in credit, or they're owed, or they owe money - vast amounts of it. And of course, some of it does end up in their hands, and they'll spend it like mad on items that you wouldn't think of ever buying in your lifetime.

The NCA said the enterprise benefited criminals globally, from Russian-speaking hackers with millions in cryptocurrency to British street gangs laundering physical cash. Launderers for the group operate in at least 28 UK cities and towns, with couriers collecting cash for crypto conversion. A company linked to one of the network's bosses purchased the bank now facilitating payments supporting the Russian military.

The woman is being held at Coolock Garda Station while a male suspect is also in custody in Clontarf after his arrest

It took thieves less than eight minutes to steal the jewels valued at €88m on October 19, shocking the world. The thieves forced open a window, cut into cases with power tools and fled with eight pieces of the French crown jewels. One suspect is a 34-year-old Algerian national who has been living in France since 2010, Ms Beccuau said. He was arrested on Saturday night at Charles de Gaulle airport as he was about to fly to Algeria with no return ticket.

As part of the operation, a truck and trailer unit travelling from the continent was searched at the port. This revealed an elaborate lead lined concealment within the fuel tank of the vehicle. The operation then discovered approximately 150kg of cocaine within the concealment with an estimated street value of €10.5m. A male in his 50's was arrested and is currently detained under Organised Crime Legislation in the South East of the country.

Police said officers had been conducting a routine surveillance operation in Sydney's Condell Park area on Tuesday when they allegedly identified the trio mobilising to carry out an offence. Officers immediately sought assistance from the tactical operations unit, PolAir, the dog squad and the state intelligence command. Just before 4pm they conducted high-risk stops of two vehicles in Revesby using less than lethal rounds and arrested the three men, aged 18, 19 and 26.

The seizure shows how organised crime groups are using ever-more sophisticated methods to evade detection. Smugglers would have known Border Force faced paying out hundreds of thousands of pounds had they damaged the combined 40 tonnes of equipment without detecting anything. Home Office minister Mike Tapp said: Vile drug smugglers thought the threat of a huge damages bill would scare Border Force off intercepting this deadly cocaine haul.

A senior detective said cracking the covert messaging platform EncroChat was pivotal in securing convictions against members of an organised crime group who planned to smuggle 48m worth of cocaine into Europe. The gang was involved in the plot to smuggle 600kg (94st 6lb) of the Class A drug on a yacht that was being used in a transatlantic sailing race. The ringleaders - Lee McClenaghan and Lea Talbot, both from Essex - admitted their involvement and were imprisoned for 30 and 23 years respectively.