UK drug gangs paid Russian criminals to swap their dirty street cash for untraceable cryptocurrency, police say.

A multibillion-pound money laundering network between Russian cyber criminals, UK drug dealers and sanctioned oligarchs has been dismantled in an international operation. The network, which used ...

Money seized from drug dealers who blighted a community has been awarded to a local youth club. The Hive, based in Birkenhead ...

UK and US authorities on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on a pair of billion-dollar money laundering rings that officials say has cleaned money for Russia’s elite, cybercriminals and drug ...

Discovering the Russian-speaking network embedded in the UK’s street drugs market is the biggest success against money laundering in a decade, say investigators. The global operation ...

An international sting has brought down a multibillion-dollar Russian money laundering network used by UK drug dealers to hide criminal cash. Russian-speaking hackers who had millions in ...

Mr Jones said: "Operation Destabilise has exposed billion-dollar money laundering networks operating in a way previously unknown to international law enforcement or regulators. "For the first time, we ...

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A thug who attacked a man in his own home then demanded he hand over his drugs has been jailed. Did you know with a Digital ...