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EncroChat crook's signed Tyson Fury belt seized after Manchester Airport arrest

Liam Freaney is facing a lengthy sentence

Liverpool Echo

International drug trafficking plot smashed after gang member shared photo of his dog

Danny Brown, 55, included in the image the tag of his French Bulldog, named Bob, which had his partner’s phone number on it and was later used to help snare him

Daily Mirror

£45m drug smuggling plot foiled by gangster’s photo of pet dog

The picture was spotted on Encron by National Crime Agency investigators

The Independent UK

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Drug and gun-running gang boss planned to make so much money he'd be 'set up for life'

Mohammed Shahid was described as a 'key facilitator' in a Cheetham Hill-based gang which trafficked guns and 'wholesale amounts' of heroin and cocaine

Manchester Evening News

Royal Marine drug dealers snared after thousands of EncroChat messages uncovered

Detective Constable Gary McArthur has been honoured for his work on cracking a £300,000 drugs ring

Liverpool Echo

Cracking apps: are crimefighters going too far to bring down cartels?

Deciphering encryption is said to have upended a vast drug network, but some say the method should worry us all

The Guardian - UK

'Fantastic father' is exposed as an international drug dealer who traded in guns

Sidaquet Sadiq, 38, has been sentenced to 18-and-a-half years in jail

Manchester Evening News

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Bristol and South Gloucestershire men used encrypted messaging to deal drugs on 'commercial scale'

James Marshall and Scott Ryan were two of five men to be sentenced for a combined 30 years

Bristol Post

Scots cop who nailed EncroChat organised crime gang hailed after unmasking corrupt Royal Marines

Ministry of Defence Detective Constable Gary McArthur was tasked with unmasking five gangsters involved in the supply of drugs and laundering more than £7m in Glasgow and Merseyside.

Daily Record

Dealers joked about getting complaints from mums of kids they employed to sell drugs

In messages recovered from Encrochat, the three men also discussed setting up a drugs line during the coronavirus lockdown because they were 'skint'

Manchester Evening News

Sex shop plans, Ava White tributes and Encrochat suspect

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Liverpool Echo

Encrochat drug dealing suspect named after extradition from Holland

He was detained at Manchester Airport after being extradited from Holland

Liverpool Echo

Met Police PC’s husband ‘traded kilos of cocaine and cannabis through EncroChat’

Julian Agalliu is said he boasted to associates about being married to a Metropolitan Police officer

Evening Standard

'Mothvodka' and 'Unawaregiraffe' ran major EncroChat drug gang

Key players were found to be using handles "Mothvodka" and "Unawaregiraffe"

Liverpool Echo

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Cocaine deal broker and debt collector splashed out on Rolex for his birthday

EncroChat user 'Dior Fox' was identified after sending pictures of his wife and kids to other conspirators

Manchester Evening News

Dad boasts about stashing a 'right arsenal' of terrifying weapons for criminal underworld

Christopher Winder, from Salford, kept four deadly firearms for a drugs boss

Liverpool Echo

Encrochat dealer 'Limitedturtle' involved in £1m cocaine and heroin plot

The dealer was found with more than £500k of cocaine in his bedroom

Irish Independent

Inside the EncroChat data breach that exposed the criminal underworld and how a French court’s decision could undo months of police work

In June, 2020, the criminal underworld was rocked after one short message sent hitmen, drug dealers and extortionists on a scramble to cover their tracks.

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Manchester Evening News

'Stash man' who stored £800,000 of cocaine for gangster family at his parents' house jailed on his birthday

Nabeel Rashad, from Bury, was snared after being spotted carrying 'large and heavy' bin bags into the home

Wales Online

'Trusted lieutenant' played significant role in multi-kilo heroin deals

Rizwan Anwar, 29, of Newport, and his cousin used EncroChat phones in an attempt to evade authorities

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat dealer 'boredgiraffe' made 'vast profits' trafficking multi-kilos of drugs

"We will continue to target anyone involved in serious organised crime to keep this positive momentum going"

Daily Record

Racist 'Mudmen' gang killer is key man in multi-million drug trafficking conspiracy

Convicted killer Daniel Masher, 33, fell foul of the EncroChat-encrypted phone hack which exposed an organised crime group trafficking multi-kilos of cocaine, crack and heroin between Liverpool and Cardiff.

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat money laundering operation shut down as £500,000 seized

A number of raids were carried out across Allerton, Norris Green and Walton yesterday

Liverpool Echo

Swampmaster's plan to flood UK with Colombian cocaine

Dean Smith has been jailed for 13 years

Daily Record

Linwood dad jailed after acting as 'single-day courier' during £900,000 Highland drug run

Police stopped car on A95 near Aviemore and discovered three kilos of cocaine.

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