All U.K. National Crime Agency articles

  • Suspicious activity
    Article

    The importance of quality SARs

    2023-07-24T16:24:00Z

    Good suspicious activity reports make it easier for financial intelligence units to prioritize and process investigations, enabling better results in the global fight against financial crime.

  • Documents
    Article

    Should lawyers, accountants be filing more SARs?

    2021-12-28T14:32:00Z

    A study of suspicious activity reporting data in the United Kingdom suggests accountants, lawyers, estate agents, and other service-facing professionals could be doing more to contribute to the fight against financial crime.

  • NCAHeadquarters
    Article

    Suspecting illicit assets, British police freeze record $121M

    2019-08-15T14:33:00Z

    The U.K.’s National Crime Agency announced it has frozen eight bank accounts containing more than £100m (U.S. $121 million), which it suspects derived from bribery and corruption overseas. This represents the largest amount of money frozen to date.

  • Blog

    International partners join forces to tackle grand corruption

    2017-07-10T13:15:00Z

    A new multinational centre to coordinate law enforcement action against grand corruption was launched this month. The International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre (IACCC), hosted by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, brings together specialist law enforcement officers from multiple jurisdictions into a single location to tackle allegations of grand corruption.