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WALES: The NCA said crooks had been targeted over a two-month period after the network was compromised
But as they chatted away, law enforcement officers were collecting clues in real-time to collect enough evidence to put them behind bars. RELATED ARTICLES
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The Metropolitan Police alone detained 132 people – including some from the most serious organised crime network in the capital - with more than ￡13.3million in cash seized among machine guns and narcotics. What is the 'EncroChat' smartphone system used by the mafia to move money, drugs and order murders [backcolor=rgba(0,
EncroChat was a secret platform where users were able to communicate privately between specially-designed handsets - often to run drugs, traffick people and even order murders. These devices, costing ￡1,500, are usually Android-based smartphones that had their GPS sensors, microphones, and cameras stripped out, encrypted chat apps installed by default to allow people to sent private messages.
It is now emerging that criminal syndicates across the world had one - with one in six of the 60,000 users in the UK. Marketed as the electronic equivalent of two people having a conversation in an empty room, it enabled users to send written messages or make voice calls through an encrypted system.
There were thought to be 60,000 users internationally, including 10,000 in the UK, with prices at ￡1,500 for a six-month contract. Investigators say that the platform, which was not in itself illegal, was designed to be secure against unwanted outside access, and in the UK was used purely for criminal purposes.
Since the breach, the Encrochat platform has shut down. According to the Encrochat website, customers had access to features such as self-destructing messages, that deleted from the recipient's device after a certain length of time. There was also panic wipe, where all the data on the device could be deleted by entering a four-digit code from the lock-screen. The National Crime Agency said the handset could also be wiped remotely. Encrochat made sure that there was no way to link the SIM or device to the user's account, and its handsets had no camera, USB data port, GPS or microphone to make them extra secure.
Investigators became aware of the platform in around 2016, but it grew in popularity in the following two years after law enforcement hacked the encrypted Blackberry PGP system. Before Encrochat, hosted in France, shut down, National Crime Agency deputy director Matt Horne said: 'We assess there are up to 10,000 people in the UK using the Encrochat platform, and we assess that is completely for criminal purposes.
'The platform is provided by internationally based individuals, and it allows those people that wish to participate in having one of these devices to have a specially-designed handset, which is hardened against law enforcement forensic techniques. 'The device has a bespoke operating system, which is designed to frustrate law enforcement's ability to collect intelligence or evidence from these devices. They utilise an encrypted messaging system in order to communicate between criminals.'
One of the operations seized ￡5million in one go – which is the force's largest ever single cash haul. Many of the arrests were of seemingly-respectable people living luxury lifestyles, but hiding their secret criminal empires. Incredible footage of one raid showed armed officers deploy nearly a hundred flash bombs in a 1.45am mission two weeks ago on a high-end property in the Home Counties.
Heartstopping bodycam footage shows them get into the building screaming 'armed police' as they gain access, with one man in his boxer shorts standing with his hands up. He was arrested on suspicion on large-scale importation of drugs and has been released pending investigation. An imitation firearm was seized. A source said: 'The flash grenades are used to disorientate when police arrive when they suspect the person could be armed.
The vast Met operation – codenamed Eternal – was made possible through a team-up between the National Crime Agency and European partners. Data from the encrypted EncroChat phone system was shared with them, identifying a number of serious criminal plots. The international partnership revealed there were approximately 1,400 London-based users of the secret call network.
Their handsets had allowed them to plot crimes, but the teams managed to infiltrate it and dismantle the system. Commissioner Cressida Dick said: 'This operation is the most significant activity, certainly in my career, we have ever carried out against serious and organised criminality across London.
'Organised crime groups have used encrypted communications to enable their offending. 'They have openly discussed plots to murder, launder money, deal drugs and sell firearms capable of causing atrocious scenes in our communities. 'They were brazen and thought they were beyond the reach of the law. 'Organised crime does not respect geographical boundaries.
'Those responsible for it adapt quickly and take advantage of every opportunity. 'This operation has enabled us to target those at the top of the hierarchy and individuals we have known about for years but have not been able to tackle head on.
'This offending has a direct impact on our communities – those involved appear to have an air of respectability, but their actions leave a trail of misery and are inextricably linked to the violent scenes we see play out on our streets. Our investigators, intelligence analysts, firearms officers, Territorial Support Group and our local officers have worked day and night over the past two months to progress our investigations as part of this operation. 'Through this work with our international partners, we have significantly developed our understanding of organised criminality in London and the ways in which some of our most prolific and dangerous offenders operate.
'This is just the beginning, there are many more people we are investigating. We know who they are and we have seen what they are doing and who they are doing it with. We will not rest until they have seen justice.' Elsewhere officers from the NCA, supported by Merseyside Police, arrived at a home in Melling at about 7.30am yesterday morning.
The action was one of five separate swoops on Merseyside, including in Halewood and Anfield. All the five warrants in the county were linked, and are connected to alleged high-level drug dealing and firearms offences, with guns used to 'enforce' in criminals' Class A turfs or patches.
The man arrested in Melling is suspected of working with others on a 'national and international scale,' police added, and 'how it comes back into Merseyside, and those people then control others and how that then leads to misery and corrosive effect on the community.' 
BIRMINGHAM: Drugs that were discovered when the National Crime Agency and police took part in a raid on June 26
BIRMINGHAM: A carbine conversion kit that discovered when the NCA and police took part in a property raid on June 26
BIRMINGHAM: Blocks of cocaine discovered when the NCA and police took part in a raid on a property on June 26
BIRMINGHAM: A National Crime Agency leaves a property following a raid on June 26 in relation to the encrypted system
BIRMINGHAM: a gun that was discovered when the NCA and police took part in the raid relating to Encrochat on June 26
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BIRMINGHAM: A raid on a property on June 26 related to Encrochat, a military-grade encrypted communication system
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BIRMINGHAM: Officers from the National Crime Agency and police take part in raid on a property on June 26
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BIRMINGHAM: Officers from the National Crime Agency in the doorway of a property during a raid on June 26
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LONDON: Bundles of cash in a plastic bag, in one of the evidence pictures released by the Metropolitan Police
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LONDON: Piles of cash are laid out on a bed in one of the evidence photographs released by Scotland Yard
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LONDON: One of the guns which was recovered during a raid of a property in the capital
LONDON: Boxes of cash are pictured following one of the raids by the Metropolitan Police
Another of the organised crime groups was thought to have roots in Nottinghamshire, with links into Liverpool. A number of warrants in the county has led to the seizure of 7.5kg in cocaine and heroin, and ￡620,000 in cash. How police smashed criminal gangs in the UK, Europe and the UAE by hacking their phones Police today dismantled huge chunks of a criminal drugs, guns and people trafficking network spanning the globe after four years of trying.
After two months of planning officers in major cities across the UK simultaneously struck kingpins all over the country. In April, at the height of lockdown in Europe, police in France and the Netherlands finally infiltrated the EncroChat platform. The phone system, similar to a walkie talkie system allowed users to send encrypted communications and offered a secure mobile phone instant messaging service believing that they were safe from detection.
There were 60,000 users worldwide and around 10,000 users in the UK – the sole use was for coordinating and planning the distribution of illicit commodities, money laundering and plotting to kill rival criminals. But detectives infiltrated the system - and the crime syndicate collapsed like a house of cards in June. This is what we know about they operation, known Venetic, with 746 arrests, and ￡54m criminal cash, 77 firearms and over two tonnes of drugs seized so far in Britain.
This is what we know so far: March 2020: After four years of work, police in France and the Netherlands finally infiltrate the EncroChat system . The data harvested about who was used was shared via Europol, to countries all over the world all over the UK. April and May: Officers continue to take down information from 60,000 users including 10,000 in the UK. There are also a series of raids June 13: The owners of the EncroChat system realised the platform had been penetrated and sent a message to its users urging them to throw away their handsets.
June 14: Users are sent a 'kill code' that disables their phones and wipes its memory. June 15: Police forces in 30 areas across the UK carry out raids using counter-terrorism armed officers to arrest the bosses of the gangs selling drugs and arms in the UK.
Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Kirby, who heads up East Midlands Special Operations Unit said they were tracked using Encrochat. He said: 'It was an encrypted app used entirely by criminals. 'It was used for criminality across what we call 'threat areas' - money, drugs, firearms, and the ability to endanger lives through criminal feuds.
'It is a drugs supply gang dealing in kilos and large amounts of money. It told us about criminal networks in our area and what they are up to. 'They really thought they were safe but it was a gold mine for law enforcement. 'We had the keys to that code and we were aware of everything that was going on. 'It was like the Enigma code.'
There was also action in Northern Ireland where hundreds of thousands of pounds were seized among a 'significant' number of arrests. Police who carried out 25 searched came away with more than ￡365,000 in cash, as well as drugs, high-value vehicles, laptops, jewellery and designer handbags. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it stopped more than 15 threats to life as part of the operation. Five people have so far been charged, four of whom have been remanded in custody and one is on High Court bail.
LONDON: A gun and ammunition on top of an evidence bag which was recovered during a raid by the Metropolitan Police
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LONDON: Stacks of cash found by Metropolitan Police detectives during the international Operation Venetic
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