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Description: NEW: JOIN ME ON PATREON: patreon.com/TheMobReporter The mystery may finally be solved of how the global criminal elite were tipped off to a police probe that allowed officers to crack an encrypted criminal communication system. The EncroChat breach was undone by police corruption. Let me tell you about it. Many of you will have heard of EncroChat by now — the seemingly impenetrable phone system allowing serious criminals to talk and text in private — and an international law enforcement consortium that managed to unscramble it. The Mob Reporter here with the story of how police broke the code of underworld messages and of a new development that may shed light on how one of the most cherished police ops was burned. By one of their own. The rise and fall of EncroChat is one of the most significant developments in international crime in years. The devices were a replacement for the Blackberry phones many gangsters used until it was revealed that Canadian police had master encryption keys to decode messages. The RCMP used it to track the Mafia in Montreal during the Rizzuto clan’s feud, and it helped solve the hit on Sal Montagna, the acting boss of New York’s Bonanno crime family, by Montreal gangsters in 2011. Getting inside EncroChat was a modern milestone in fighting the modern face of crime. But then someone with the company found out they’d been compromised and, on June 12, 2020, an emergency alert was pushed out to users. The message warned users to “power off and physically dispose your device immediately.” Police in several countries moved in on some of their highest-value targets. In the UK, the fruits of the EncroChat probe are still reaching deep into the underworld in an ongoing project called Operation Venetic, led by the National Crime Agency. The NCA say the data helped them pick off kingpins and “the so-called iconic untouchables who have evaded law enforcement for years.” Arrests in Operation Venetic are announce regularly. As of March, there’s been 1,550 arrests with tons of contraband and almost US$80 million worth of criminal cash seized. Throughout these exploits, the original leak that tipped EncroChat off to the police hack remains something of a mystery. But we may have a clue about that. Police said Natalie Mottram, 22, was working as an intelligence analyst with the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit. She was arrested with two others, Jonathan Kay and Leah Bennett, both 36 years old, of Warrington, a town between Liverpool and Manchester in England’s north. Their crime, police alleged, was disclosing information that law enforcement could access encrypted EncroChat data. Although this was announced on May 21, 2021, she was arrested nearly a year earlier — you guessed it, on June 12, 2020. The trio is scheduled to appeared in court on June 8, just four days shy of a year after the date of her arrest and, of course, four days shy of when EncroChat users were tipped off that they’d all been burned. Maybe then we will learn more. Thanks for watching. Song is “Psychic Need” by Chasms Map animation created using Google Earth Studio EncroChat phone use video is from the “This is Just the Beginning” video posted by Sylak 88 at youtube.com/watch?v=mUdugZjTPho Multiple Blackberry phones photo by Kt38138 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46699162 Blackberry handset by Cheon Fong Liew CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56212757 Matrix-like image video by BRoll.io from Pexels Computer program video by Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels Time lapse by Video by Naveen Annam from Pexels London street videos by George Morina from Pexels Aerial view of London by Video by Mike from Pexels Police on motorbikes by Image by Grzegorz Korczyc from Pixabay ~ The Mob Reporter is a professional journalist bringing you real-life mob, police and true crime news and educational videos. ~ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/user/themobreporter?sub_confirmation=1 ~ Please subscribe to my other channels: • Crime Watch: youtube.com/CrimeWatchWorld • Crime in Italy: youtube.com/channel/UC-RAffGKnxExn8kXmeRdRsg ~ To read my written journalism in the National Post, visit: news.nationalpost.com/author/ahumphreys ~ For more information, visit adrianhumphreys.com. Please like, share, comment and subscribe. Thanks for watching! - The Mob Reporter -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "Italian Mafia boss visiting Canada accidentally brought police wiretap to all his meetings": youtu.be/lhSL0JzQJYc -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-