A billion-dollar money laundering network, which is known to be active in the UK, bought a bank to facilitate payments to support Russian military efforts in Ukraine Cash seized in the National Crime Agency's Operation Destabilise to disrupt a billion-dollar money-laundering network (Image: PA)

A secret network has been helping Russia's army and assisting criminals all over the world, from Russian-speaking hackers with millions in cryptocurrency to British street gangs with dirty cash to launder, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA).

Sal Melki, deputy director for economic crime at the NCA , said: "Today we can reveal the sheer scale at which these networks operate and draw a line between crimes in our communities, sophisticated organised criminals and state-sponsored a

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