Police arrest 800, smash criminal phone network used to plan murders

THE HAGUE: Police said Thursday they had arrested more than 800 people across Europe after shutting down an encrypted phone network used by organised crime groups to plot murders and drug deals.

EncroChat sent a message to its estimated 60,000 users in June warning them to throw away their €1,000 devices as its servers had been “seized illegally by government entities”. It has now been shut down. Some of the encrypted messages “were so worrying that it went far beyond our imagination,” said Jannine van den Berg, Chief Constable of the Dutch police’s central unit.

They then “put a technical device in place to go beyond the encryption technique and have access to the users’ correspondence,” the statement said. Dutch police had busted 19 meth labs, seized 10 tonnes of cocaine and thousands of kilos of crystal meth and arrested more than 100 people, Kraag said. The French and Dutch authorities said the decision to hack into the encrypted phone network was justified.

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