Last modified on Sun 11 Apr 2021 06.00 EDT
At 5am on a chilly Tuesday morning last month, 1,600 police officers and balaclava-wearing special forces, bristling with arms and battering rams, were ordered into action around the Belgian port city of Antwerp.
More than 200 addresses were raided in what was the largest police operation ever conducted in the country and potentially one of the most significant moves yet against the increasingly powerful narco-gangs of western Europe.
There are hopes that Operation Sky will herald the downfall of a generation of local bosses, although the Belgian and Dutch âgodfathersâ largely now hide out in Dubai and Turkey, hoping to be out of reach of the authorities.
Source: Sky ECC website
Authorities in the U.S. have extended the international police crackdown against the Sky ECC cryptophone service by indicting both the parent company s CEO and its main distributor.
Jean-François Eap, CEO of Sky Global, and Thomas Herdman, who authorities say distributed Sky Global devices until December 2020, have both been charged with a conspiracy to violate the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, aka RICO, by running an illicit secret communications network for criminals. They have also been charged with a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
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