https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11810243/Man-50-sold-guns-gangsters-Britain-using-EncroChat-jailed-19-years.html
A man who supplied weapons to criminal gangs across the UK has been
jailed for more than 19 years.
Michael Derrane, 50, from Morpeth in Northumberland, transferred
firearms and multiple kilos of class A and B drugs to crime groups for
a profit, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA).
The NCA said Derrane used the encrypted messaging system EncroChat to orchestrate the illegal trades in Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, the
Midlands and London.
As part of Operation Venetic, the UK law enforcement crackdown on
EncroChat users, Derrane was arrested
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From Wikipedia -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat
"EncroChat handsets emerged in 2016 as a replacement for a previously
disabled end-to-end encrypted service.[6] The company had revealed on
31 December 2015 the Version 115 of EncroChat OS, which appears to be
the first public release of their operating system.[7] The earliest
version of the company's website archived by the Wayback Machine dates
to 23 September 2015.[8]
According to a May 2019 report by the Gloucester Citizen, EncroChat
was originally developed for "celebrities who feared their phone
conversations were being hacked".[9] In the 2015 murder of English
mobster Paul Massey, the killers used a similar service providing
encrypted BlackBerry phones based on PGP. After the Dutch and Canadian
police compromised their server in 2016, EncroChat turned into a
popular alternative among criminals for its security-oriented services
in 2017–2018."
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