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>Mottram was collared as part of Operation Venetic, the NCA's codename for the EncroChat takedown. According to the cops, their secret infiltration of the supposedly impregnable chat app, allowing officers to silently read crooks' private messages and probe criminal dealings... In 2020, police in France and the Netherlands led the effort to compromise the communications service. Once they'd busted into the network's servers, cops used that access to collect conversations and other data from EncroChat handsets and use this information to make arrests, with the NCA doing the legwork in the UK.

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