Repeat offender jailed for 20 years had snap of £1m cash bagged up in storage tub on Encrochat phone
A GANG boss repeat offender, who went on the run after the Encrochat hack, has been jailed for 20 years for leading an organised crime...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Apr 4
EXCLUSIVE: Encrochat brothers who sacked lawyers and snubbed trial get 25 years each for coke supply
TWO Encrochat defendants, who sacked their defence lawyers and failed to attend their trial, have been jailed for 25 years each. Jamie,...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Dec 23, 2021
Russian and Lithuanian money launderers got £10m from fraudulent corona Bounce Back Loans
RUSSIAN and Lithuanian men who headed up an international criminal network responsible for laundering £70 million, £10m of which came...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Dec 9, 2021
EncroChat gaffer who wanted to import 90kgs of heroin a week gets just 10 years after guilty plea
AN ORGANISED crime boss who planned to import 90kgs of heroin a week has received just a ten years and nine months jail term after...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Dec 9, 2021
NCA won't say if it is investigating mystery EncroChat and Sky ECC cocaine importer 'Championssss'
THE National Crime Agency (NCA) has refused to say if it knows the identity of a cocaine kingpin who used the EncroChat and Sky ECC...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Nov 21, 2021
ENCROCHAT: Man wanted in Germany for 'aiding Albanian crime gang to import cocaine from Colombia'
A DAD of two suspected of being involved in large cocaine importations from South America to Europe using the EncroChat encrypted mobile...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Nov 16, 2021
ENCROCHAT: 'I’ll blowtorch your balls and cut ear off'- torture gang threats to robbery victims
A RUTHLESS gang was recorded describing how they would torture wealthy robbery victims to get them to hand over their cash. Six of them...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Nov 15, 2021
ENCROCHAT HACK: Supreme Court verdict could be by Xmas rapper C Montana's case hears
SEVERAL people accused of using the encrypted Encrochat mobile phone system to supply drugs and other organised crime offences should...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Nov 13, 2021
ENCROCHAT HACK: Drug importer who tried to destroy Encro device has he fled NCA pleads guilty
A MAN who used the encrypted phone network EncroChat to import cocaine worth £1.6m into the UK has pleaded guilty. Ibraheem Abdullah, 38,...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Oct 9, 2021
Encrochat fugitive bodybuilder Clinton Blakey who absconded after being bailed arrested in Spain
A BODYBUILDER who absconded after being bailed during the UK's biggest ever operation against organised crime groups has been arrested in...
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