A police employee has been charged with five criminal counts in an investigation emerging from Operation Venetic – the U.K.’s law enforcement response to the takedown of encrypted comms platform EncroChat. Keep Reading
Suspected members of an organized crime group responsible for selling vast quantities of MDMA on the dark web have been targeted in raids across the U.K. Keep Reading
Members of a suspected criminal group accused of trafficking heroin and producing amphetamine worth millions of pounds were arrested in the U.K. on March 10 as part of an investigation linked to encrypted communications. Keep Reading
An attempt to stop prosecutors using messages from hundreds of phones that were part of the EncroChat secret communications network in court has been rejected by the Appeal Court in the U.K. Keep Reading
Three men have been arrested in London, U.K. and two in Western Sydney, Australia following the seizure of 450 kilos of MDMA hidden within an excavator that was shipped into the Port of Brisbane from the U.K. Keep Reading
Three men have been arrested and a warehouse raided in connection with an alleged conspiracy to import cocaine into the U.K. in food deliveries from the Netherlands. Keep Reading
In early 2020, EncroChat was one of the largest providers of encrypted digital communication with a very high share of users presumably engaged in criminal activity. Keep Reading