Encrypted phone service 'Encrochat' shutdown leads to 6,500 arrests
The system had an estimated 60,000 users when it shut down abruptly in June 2020, and Europol revealed the following month that law enforcement officials had been intercepting users' communications for months.
More than 100 arrested in European swoop on 'Ndrangheta crime group
The suspects are accused of money laundering, criminal tax evasion, fraud and smuggling of drugs, mafia-type criminal association, possession and trafficking of weapons.
Rights group warns cops against ‘Sosma crackdown’
Lawyers for Liberty says using Sosma for this purpose will only see the police embroiled in an 'unending cycle of abuse of power'.
Consider environmental pollution as organised crime under Sosma, say cops
Top cop Abdul Hamid Bador assures that the Sungai Gong investigation will be carried out transparently.
