The Dutch police have over 1 billion chat messages between criminals in their possession. Those messages helped them dismantle some 60 drug labs in the Netherlands, seize around 170,000 kilograms of cocaine, and confiscate 1,000 heavy weapons, AD reports based on figures from the police’s National Unit.
Crime gangs across the north are bracing themselves for a law enforcement crackdown linked to a secret messaging service similar to EncroChat. Known as Sky ECC, the network was believed to be one of the most secure end-to-end encryption messaging platforms.