These extensive raids – the UK’s largest ever crackdown of its kind on money laundering – form the second stage of Operation Machinize
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These extensive raids – the UK’s largest ever crackdown of its kind on money laundering – form the second stage of Operation Machinize
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Barbers, minimarts, and vape shops are among the 2,700 high street businesses that have been raided in the UK’s largest ever crackdown of its kind on money laundering.
The Metropolitan Police has seized thousands of stolen items during a huge raid of more than 120 shops. Footage shared by the…
The number of shoplifting offences surged to the highest figure since current police recording practices began in 2003
Police also seized more than £1.5m in cash and around 200kg of Class A substances
Some 12,791 visits took place in 2025, up 57 per cent from 2024, to businesses such as nail bars, car washes, barbers and…
Products that fail fire safety checks, are counterfeit and breach laws protecting children targeted in raids in London
Luxury London properties frozen as Foreign Office and US officials impose sanctions on gang behind centres in south-east Asia
