EXCLUSIVE: Drug dealers 'turn to fraud to avoid risk of death or jail but still make as much cash'
DRUG dealers are turning to fraud as the risk of death or lengthy prison terms from being involved in supplying class A substances...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Oct 10, 2020
ENCROCHAT HACK: Armed drug dealer on police radar before encryption probe but phone sealed fate
A MAN has been jailed for over nine years after a sawn-off shotgun and cash was recovered and his drug dealing activities were cemented...
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By JON AUSTIN UK EXCLUSIVE
- Oct 1, 2020
Encrochat Hack: Albanian head of organised crime unit suspended over alleged leaks to criminals
THE head of Albania's special crime unit has been suspended amid allegations he sent information to an Albanian crime gang operating in...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Sep 29, 2020
ENCROCHAT HACK: Suspects arrested in encrypted phones probe were already known to investigators
THREE of the four latest people to be arrested under Operation Venetic - the wide-ranging investigation following the hack of the...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Sep 25, 2020
ENCROCHAT: Met charges seven more with cocaine supply as encryption hack probe continues
SEVEN more people have been charged as part of the ongoing investigations following the hack of the Encrochat encrypted mobile phone...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Sep 25, 2020
ENCROCHAT: Haulage firm boss nabbed by encrypted phone hack admits drug importation
AN IRISH haulage firm owner who used the encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to lead a criminal network which moved drugs and dirty...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Sep 23, 2020
ENCROCHAT HACK: Tonne of cocaine at Dover latest NCA seizure in encryption probe
AROUND a tonne of cocaine, concealed within a load of fruit, is the latest seizure in Operation Venetic - the series of raids across the...
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By JON AUSTIN
- Sep 17, 2020
Albanian cocaine group Kompania Bello "dismantled" after a five-year investigation, spanning globe
AN ALBANIAN crime group has been "dismantled" after a five-year probe, according to international investigators. An "unprecedented...
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