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<p>The National Crime Agency’s Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15 sets out the Agency’s
staffing numbers and funding allocations including gross expenditure for the Economic
Crime Command for 2013-14, and 2014-15.</p><p>The gross expenditure of the Economic
Crime Command in 2013/14, the first year of the NCA’s operation, was £10,571,000.
In 2014-15 gross expenditure was £21,718,000. In June 2015, the International Corruption
Unit was established in the Economic Crime Command. It brought together resources
from the Metropolitan Police Service, City of London Police and the NCA into a single
unit and is responsible for investigating the bribery of foreign public officials
by individuals or companies from the UK, and money laundering by corrupt foreign officials
and their associates.</p><p>The Economic Crime Command also leads the Joint Money
Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT) through which the financial sector, law
enforcement agencies and the Financial Conduct Authority share information to prevent,
detect and disrupt money laundering and terrorist financing. The NCA as a whole has
around 4,000 staff. The majority of the NCA’s staff work as a flexible investigative
resource, not in a particular Command, but assigned to particular operations across
all areas of the NCA as needed. The agency also houses a number of deployable specialist
capabilities.</p><p>The number of staff working in a particular Command is not a reliable
indicator of the overall NCA resource linked to a particular type of crime. The Criminal
Finances Threat Group is a multi-agency group chaired by the NCA which includes representatives
from across law enforcement, meeting quarterly. As the Group is not a unit within
the NCA, the information sought is not available. HMRC leads on tax evasion.</p><p>The
NCA works closely with HMRC in relation to tax evasion that relates to serious and
organised crime. Through the NCA’s national tasking and coordination mechanisms the
Agency is able act on these cases by utilising its specialist capabilities, for example
undertaking tax investigations to recover assets from serious and organised criminals
under part 6 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.</p>
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