Crime network cracked.

[meatballs]

Brads67 is going to lose his mind when he reads the Snowden disclosures

[carinaman]

Chanced upon that from a piece about somebody taking their white Corsa offroad and it ending upside down.

Courier had Enchrochat phone on them:

https://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/news/crime/for...

A firm of solicitors on about Enchrochat:

https://www.reeds.co.uk/encrochat-hack/

[carinaman]

Seems some NCA personnel may have commented at some conference earlier this week that our laws don't allow the same sort of methods and tactics that are allowed in Europe for dealing with such criminal offending.

[A1VDY]

Met police commissioner 'Dame Dick'... rather unfortunate...

[A1VDY]

itsnotarace said:

^^ You would be suprised

We monitor a lot of botnet traffic coming from Dutch datacentres that are fronts for Russian companies

Trading in butt plugs maybe?

[carinaman]

Seems it was the Dutch police as well as the French:

https://www.2harecourt.com/2021/02/05/jonathan-kin...

[juice]

A breakdown of numbers. Quite staggering really

Europol on Tuesday announced that the takedown of EncroChat in July 2020 led to 6,558 arrests worldwide and the seizure of €900 million in illicit criminal proceeds.

The law enforcement agency said that a subsequent joint investigation initiated by French and Dutch authorities intercepted and analyzed over 115 million conversations that took place over the encrypted messaging platform between no less than 60,000 users.

Now almost three years later, the information obtained from digital correspondence has to :

Arrests of 6,558 suspects, including 197 high-value targets
7,134 years of imprisonment of convicted criminals
Confiscation of €739.7 million in cash
Freeze of €154.1 million frozen in assets or bank accounts
Seizure of 30.5 million pills of chemical drugs
Seizure of 103.5 tonnes of cocaine, 163.4 tonnes of cannabis, and 3.3 tonnes of heroin
Seizure of 971 vehicles, 83 boats, and 40 planes
Seizure of 271 estates or homes, and
Seizure of 923 weapons, as well as 21,750 rounds of ammunition and 68 explosives

Edited by juice on Tuesday 27th June 14:19

[normalbloke]

Those really are some numbers. Once I’d got over misreading 83 goats, it sunk in. Great work, looking forward to some of the documentaries that may come out because of this.

[eldar]

normalbloke said:

Those really are some numbers. Once I’d got over misreading 83 goats, it sunk in. Great work, looking forward to some of the documentaries that may come out because of this.

How many of the 6558 suspects ended up convicted of an offence?

[normalbloke]

eldar said:

normalbloke said:

Those really are some numbers. Once I’d got over misreading 83 goats, it sunk in. Great work, looking forward to some of the documentaries that may come out because of this.

How many of the 6558 suspects ended up convicted of an offence?

No idea, as I’m sure some of it is still ongoing. But I’m sure the 7000+ years of jail time issued so far, may give one or two of them something to chew on.

[whimsical ninja]

There are still cases ongoing.

Conviction rates are ridiculously high, at least in GB; there are just so many cases to go through that only the ones that looked like stone bonker cases got prosecuted in the first place due to resources. There have been a few test cases but most others have ended in guilty pleas.

[Greendubber]

Thats a horrendous amount of firearms recovered.

[Mr Miata]

7134 years imprisonment between 6558 arrests is nothing

Either many of the suspects were acquitted / charges dropped or they had on average 1.08 years each.

I’d be interested to see what percentage those seizures are in relation to the amounts imported into Europe? Is 103 tons a lot or is it a few weeks worth?

[markjmd]

Mr Miata said:

7134 years imprisonment between 6558 arrests is nothing

Either many of the suspects were acquitted / charges dropped or they had on average 1.08 years each.

I’d be interested to see what percentage those seizures are in relation to the amounts imported into Europe? Is 103 tons a lot or is it a few weeks worth?

Or a lot of them are yet to face trial.