Dutch police arrest 6 men, uncover makeshift torture chamber

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11. They're not all to do with torture; it is a form of secure communication

with encrypted phones that they infiltrated.

EncroChat: What it is, who was running it, and how did criminals get their encrypted phones?

Police forces across Europe celebrated their infiltration of EncroChat on Thursday, disrupting international organised crime networks which were using the company's encrypted phones.

In the UK, authorities arrested 746 suspected top-tier criminals who are believed to be involved in murder, gun smuggling and drug trafficking crimes, and seized £54m in cash and 1.5 tonnes of cocaine.

Similar operations have been carried out across Europe, as a result of intelligence gleaned from police's access to millions of messages sent using the encrypted messaging network over the past five months.
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The National Crime Agency (NCA) told Sky News that the company itself has not been accused of criminal activity, but that its platform was used by criminals.

https://news.sky.com/story/encrochat-what-it-is-who-was-running-it-and-how-did-criminals-get-their-encrypted-phones-12019678