There has been a major increase in the number of employers prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrants.
The BBC has found that in the two months since a change in the law came into effect at the end of February, 137 firms have been caught employing staff illegally. for more click here
Detectives from Europe will be able to carry out investigations and even make arrests on British soil as part of specialist squads designed to combat international crime. for more click here
The Liberal Democrats said yesterday that the alleged support was against the spirit of European Union sanctions, which specifically target prominent members of the Zimbabwe government.
The controversy has echoes of the 1980s when Barclays was boycotted by anti-apartheid activists and students for its links with South Africa. for more click here
About 100 leading household brands, including PG Tips, Coca-Cola and Aquafresh, are at the centre of an investigation into allegations of price-fixing, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. for more click here
Over the last six months, 13 major operations by the police and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs have resulted in the conviction of 15 serious organised criminals and the seizure of 150 kilos of drugs.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill today highlighted these successes as the kind of joint working that the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce wants to build on as it steps up its fight against criminal gangs.
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Euro MPs voted yesterday to keep secret a damning report exposing “criminal abuse” of a £100million expenses fund.
They refused to publish the internal audit, which revealed how some hired “ghost” staff and others employed family members on inflated taxpayer-funded salaries. for more click here
Police in Scotland have uncovered petrol station credit card frauds with a potential value of £1m, linked to international terrorism.
Banks, oil companies and police forces throughout the country are on alert after 5000 cards were copied and their details stolen at two Edinburgh filling stations. A further attempt on a filling station in Kilmarnock was discovered before card details were stolen. for more click here
Investigators have identified a number of British arms dealers trading with Tehran, triggering alarm among government officials who fear Iran’s nuclear programme may be receiving significant support from UK sources.
The probe by customs officers suggests that at least seven Britons have been defying sanctions by supplying the Iranian air force, its elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, and even the country’s controversial nuclear ambitions. for more click here
Texas officials who took 416 children from a polygamist retreat into state custody sent many of their mothers away as a judge and lawyers struggled with a legal and logistical morass in one of the biggest child-custody cases in US history. for more click here
Serb prisoners had their internal organs removed and sold by ethnic Albanians during the Kosovo war, according to allegations in a new book by the world’s best known war crimes prosecutor.
Carla Del Ponte, who stepped down in January as chief prosecutor at the Hague tribunal for crimes committed in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, said investigators found a house suspected of being a laboratory for the illegal trade. for more click here