National Crime Agency

Albanian organized crime groups are taking an increasingly high profile role in the cocaine trade in the UK, while Romanian gangs are increasingly prevalent in "modern slavery" in the UK, according to a new report from the UK's National Crime Agency, NCA, which blames corruption at airports and ports for the apparent ease of access of the drugs to the UK.

British Prime Minister David Cameron on April 10 released his tax details in a bid to head off a row over his father's offshore business, and announced a new taskforce to scrutinize the so-called Panama Papers.

A cocaine seizure off Britain's coast last week yielded what is thought to be the country's biggest-ever haul of hard drugs, potentially worth three-quarters of a billion dollars, authorities said on April 30.

Kosovo, UK partner against crime

A new deal tightens ties between law enforcement agencies in Kosovo, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Kosovo Interior Minister Skender Hyseni (right) and Steve Bennett of the UK's National Crime Agency speak in Pristina on February 24th after inking a security co-operation agreement. [AFP]

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of the Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic on the second day of his visit to Great Britain visited the National Crime Agency (NCA) and signed a memorandum of cooperation with NCA Director General Keith Bristow on the fight against organized crime, illegal migration and human trafficking.