Encrochat - UK Based International Drug Smuggling Ring Leader Jailed (Thomas Maher)
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
- A haulage firm owner who used the encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to lead a criminal network which moved drugs and dirty cash across Europe has been convicted.
Thomas Maher 39, of Warrington, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court this morning [25 September] where he pleaded guilty to two charges relating to importing Class A drugs into the UK and two charges of money laundering.
The National Crime Agency moved in to arrest Maher following evidence acquired through EncroChat - the encrypted messaging platform that was brought down in June as part of Operation Venetic.
Police said '
“Maher was the logistics man for a number of crime groups, and played a key role in an important criminal infrastructure. He was able to use his contacts and his business to facilitate large amounts of class A drugs to enter the UK and Ireland, with little thought to the damage they inflict on people and communities.
“Going the other way he was able to ship large amounts of cash, after taking a cut himself, which no doubt was used to fund further criminal activity.
“Put simply, organised crime groups can’t function without people like Maher.
“Operation Venetic has halted thousands of criminal conspiracies and led to the arrests of hundreds of suspects. Thomas Maher was undoubtedly one of the most significant.”
Officers from the NCA monitored Maher’s movements over a seven month period during which he met with associates at hotels and in public spaces in the North West to organise the trafficking of cocaine from Holland to the UK and Ireland.
Encrochat messages obtained by the NCA through Operation Venetic showed that in April 2020 he orchestrated the collection and delivery of at least 21 kilos of cocaine from locations in the Netherlands. Associates reported back to Maher as the drugs were picked up, transported and arrived at their final destination in Ireland.
On 2 April an exchange took place at a garage in Lierop, Netherlands, where 11 kilos of cocaine was passed between two vehicles.
Two days later, the arrival of the drugs by way of Dunkirk to Dover and eventually Donabate, near Dublin was confirmed. Messages showed that Maher had discussed splitting the profit with one of his group.
In another job, Maher made arrangements for 10 kilos of cocaine to be collected from an area near De Strubben in the Netherlands and again delivered to the outskirts of Dublin, which netted further profits.
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How come they have not arrested any
Sex offenders?
Only criminal with cash
Good point probably peado politicians that why
U answered your own question pal ££££
because they are a government agency! also they would rather seize drugs an cash because it affects the corrupt government.
BxxDxx Hoodoo fuckin nonce
because sex offenders don’t use encro chat they use facebook
One of the best news channels in the UK , in my opinion , scarcity is bringing knife crime etc... into the spotlight , which is the best way to help stop it.
You can't stay ahead of the game forever. You'll get caught eventually. By police or by rivals. Only a tiny percent get out with their money, life and freedom.
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hedge bopping most days; my mate even stuck his finger up to a security guard in Tesco’s.
We were real mean bastards; the streets hardest even the Krays had nothing on us!
@LOUi TUBE clearly weren't any good LOL many get out after making bank 😉🔥
That’s good. Drug business is unethical anyways.
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Are you smoking crack?
Edward Snowden’s told us all in 2013 all we needed to know about the situation
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Feds definitely invented these phones..
Man knows the entire system is corrupted since Jan at least and still use it !no feds needed ,they just don't recycle their proceed to work !
@@AK47ronin 100 percent. The laugh is you can't even go not guilty the phones just grassed up the whole world
@Nigel that was amusing but a tried and tested method nonetheless. Pretty successful during WW2 right!
Yeah fact.
Yes
Well put together yet again . Keep up the good reporting proper street journalist.
This is a good video, but he's hardly doing street journalism.
no coverage of the banks that they laundered money through who used the huge deposits for fractional reserve lending
Facts bro
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£20 million cash hid in a car must of been a fucking big car because if it was in £50 notes it would weigh just under half a ton.
Your Work on the Whole encrochat situation is far ahead of any other info ive read re: this. In fact its the only place i look for encrochat updates. Thank You for your hard work
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@@ScarcityStudios were the one about the irish law won't bring in the law to hack phones
Oh a drug dealer gets life but a murderer does ten years ... pfff
Yeah. All about the money.
Its cuz government dnt get paid by drug dealers
It's only the peados in government that get away with this crap , and they are all the so called elites.
But the drugs promote the murder?
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Great report bro. Very informative and relevant information. Your work is greatly appreciated never watch the tv. So I’d rather get my news from yourself :)
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They should have stuck with the Nokia burner
hahah so fucking true
@@blablablabla542 keyword... Burner. If you know then you know
If you don't manage to get rid of the sim and burner phone then your fucked. Feds connect it to their computer and restore all info. So are you gonna throw away your phone everyday? It's not 100 truss me
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@county lines made me rich but what if they raid you during a day you havnt thrown it away? Also if ur using old burner phones everything's done threw the sim rather then Internet so if u got that sim around u they can get all the info off the sim from the network. And no1s changing their number every couple days u get me?
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£20 Million pounds hidden in a car? How feckin big was the car? 😂
Floydfan75 yer a mil in 50’s is a lump must be a lorry made of Wong a
he owned range rovers and trucks
Would of been in 50 bundles + a range could hide that under the seats
Could be 500 euro notes
@@gnixon9307 Not if its the Uk no one uses fucking Euros lol
20 million hidden in a compartment in a car? Hmmmm that compartment would have to be bigger than the car itself, 20m in cash is some serious square footage
@Danny-lee Martin is that how drug dealers do it now days isit? With cheques? Hahaha be real
@Matt Faulkner yes it would but still 20 mil in 500 euro notes just about getting in a car haha
Not everyone drives a smart car like you lol
@@EARART
That’s true. It seems not everyone has common sense like me either. It says “hidden compartment in a car” what car has a compartment bigger than a whole van? Google image what 20m in cash looks like and you will get an idea. Smart car comment turned out to be not so smart
@redruM
Lol are you serious? 20m in cash would not fit in a car even with all the seats taken out
You will never win the war on drugs, drugs are so intricately involved all throughout society, and with social media the situation has never been worse
No they don’t have any plan too where do you think all the seized money goes
its expanded with the EU. billions dollar industry now. so many fake front companies in UK laundering drugs money
Top story keep up good work sick live chat
Thanks for watching and deffo will
Well interesting, thanks buddy
Great work.
Can only imagine what the room @13:37 is used for!
Giving haircuts
@@Jba8179 I think they’ll be cutting a lot more than hair in that room my friend.
@@vikamm6119 yes, they also do beard shaving and trimming
No device or service is safe these days.
Especially proprietary server systems hosted by the service provider :-/ PGP & OTR etc have their own proven track record because they’re open source. Know your threat model. Compartmentalise your comms. Don’t rely solely on mobile phones - they are not secure. Crews need to recruit peeps with the skillz to give them comms that meet the correct threat model. However, the big takeaway here is don’t rely on uninformed ‘word of mouth’ recommendations of ‘secure’ communications. Have people in your crew to provide you with the technical insight you lack. There are many examples of central servers being hacked. Here’s one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar?wprov=sfti1
Proprietary central servers shouldn’t be used unless they’re open source & the provider can demonstrate the servers are designed, technically, to be trust-less . Times has changed. There are safe pathways through the ether but ppl need to be prepared to spend the money required to protect their OPSEC & comms.
How are people still getting ketch with phones
They've being getting hacked for a while now
They have thrown all the phones away but it's to late..the police have all there evidence ..they will nick them when there ready...
I'm guessing if someone on the list, chances are they have been monitored at some point, maybe even right now. It's a matter of who's next if still grafting
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And the new drug rings are waiting in the wings When you prohibit anything criminals take over is the thing...
i think you could write a book about encrochat and how it was brought down. might be a good earner.
I'd buy it
He doesn't write this stuff he jus reads news articles
Seems there are as many dealers as users... what a mess! Terrible
If the police/government really wanted to end drug dealing and drug crime they’d stop the source of where it comes from.
They won't as it includes royals and billionaires and MPs.
I watched a documentary about something simlar, and it’s pretty impossible to stop the production etc. The only way to win the war on drugs is to legalise it all.
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source where ? the Taliban in Afghanistan or the guerrilla army in Columbia
very comprehensive
Surely a breach of GDPR
Lmao goes to show
that only matters when it suits the right party
@@reisslane1327 that’s what I was thinking makes zero sense
@Finesso Have a laugh and fuck off
Free Thomas
If he sold the truck a year ago then how can it have anything to do with him
Excellent presentation
nice to see they take their dental health seriously despite being criminals.
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€4 million seized in Ireland would love some more info into that
When will these sloppy amateurs ever learn
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@@jaymoney3095 Im glad you like my smart ass remark and appreciate in real life I'd piss myself if I even saw a gun and couldn't beat my way out a wet paper bag and would cry like a baby if ever got pulled for speeding ;-)
Babes the clue is in the name. Operation phonetic... lol so not a shock they took so long building a case as they didn't want it thrown outta court brilliant filled info Las always x
i know a few people whos been brought in on this and there still not sure if the police can use any of this evidence in court because they obtained it illegally
Remember the actual encryption was never hacked.
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Excellent content
Crazy story
I was gonna buy my Nan an encrochat for storing her cake recipes! Not now!
Obviously these people didn’t watch the movie GOODFELLAS!
Encrochat!! Lol more like a fishing net 🤦🏾♂️
You know the score with encro. Its like Tor. The army invented it so it doesnt make sense for them not to have a back door.
Tor browser was invented by the army
Aint that where everyone buys all kind of fukrees
@@reisslane1327 yep
@@XMRSNIP3ZZ but why would the army need 2 ounces of pineapple haze and a box of diazepam's ??
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It was the guy that invested b.b.m. blackberry messenger n he got took on by Canadian army!
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Hard to believe only stuff around drugs no pedo's no terrorist? Sounds like a jip
Clean all the drugs up .not as important as saving the children !CHOOSEALIFENOTAKNIFE !
paul bree L5 alive!!! What's happened to Gee, I've not seen any of his travels around the uk recently.
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paul bree think he got banned on here.
You should be able to get his podcasts with Shaun Atwood.
Why was the cargo containers lined with the silver foil?
Great work here.
Gutted for the guy, nightmare good reporting as per
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He's not Irish !
And "the grass" is always greener :)
Tiocfaidh ar la !!
Setting up true PGP on a laptop aint hard you know lads 🤣🤣
You know!! 😂
All this did was affect my joint, the quality now is poor.
Anyone go over what’s happened with the makeshift torture prison with the outfits which so coincidentally were all clean.
👀something out of hostel that 🙄 jeez
ryno 420 give me the creeps that shit. Clearly someone high up gave them real police outfits ! I hope no one was injured or etc but that’s unlikely... like whats the chances These torture Chambers were clean ..
Clearly tipped off also .. they were sound proof. The other room was found with pliers and all sorts of torture tools ..
Just imagine being dragged into that room, fuuuuk that.
one opinion you should watch the video on when the full room was found. I’m sure it was from encro too. That dungeon thing was in Amsterdam I’m sure though.
Gives an insight on what really happens in large scale organised crime units etc.
Remove all scum off the streets/ involved in all criminal activity
Good work man.
This is some cool ass shit. Sucks for the criminals but they made their choice. Fascinating stuff. Looking forward to the movie or book someday.
Since the EU expanded the drug industry people trafficking and slavery in UK has increased. Become a billionaire pound industry thanks to EU expansion and no borders. Guns come from east europe and the drugs seem to be coming via Netherlands in to UK
@Dominic Clarke did you see the shipment at Felixstow
Mike was a great student at school.. Always wanted to learn more. He also had good manners and was willing to help everyone.
I thought the guy that made this EncroChat was arrested(for something unrelated), shit himself, and spilled the chat and now he's in protection? If I'm wrong, please do correct me. Solid videos by the way
That makes the most sense to me
Yup! 😊
the average kilo of coke is around 30k if you buy in bulk… if we are going off of bulk prices the police confiscated around £240,000,000 worth. However, if you calculate the amount as though it was being sold gram for gram it’s around £16,800,000,000 (yes almost £17bn) and thats not even considering the crystal…. considering the amount these guys were playing with they shd of put way more security measures in place.
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Fucked the game up
I bet the nerds threw a celebration party that night, it was probably like winning the world cup to them lol
Send direct mail like back in the day with pigeons
Christ he looks bad for 39
First episode watched and kudos to you.
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Warrington from above looks great 😎
What about the 40,000 people in Trafalgar Square been there for a week almost screaming to take down the bbc, citizens and business owners of this country who is fed up of the government. Why ain’t anyone talking about that
we covered the previous march and sent a reporter to this one also and will cover that and 40k is a bit of a inflation but there was a lot there
Nothings 100% safe
I'm sure they already have another secure OS on their phones...
my theory is all the so called amazing VPN company's will be next .yes all the one's people pay for with there credit cards 😂😂😂😂
VPNs will never be used by any criminals. Using VPNs is like using windows defender as anti virus protection when you’re working with extremely sensitive data. They use Socks5
As the former head of MI5 said if you think your being watched you are.
Source?
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yes defo will do more and have in past covered Scotland
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This is fucking crazy
I wouldn't be surprised if Encrochat was developed by the Met? Give em enough rope.
Get your head down learn a trade and look after your family, remember they can't come for legal money.
@Tekashi69 Dad there's thousands out there pick 1
Great vid keep up the good work fella
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Well done police men
Did Epstiene use Enchrochat?.
They will only invent another.
What I’m trying to understand is how they link the phones to the people? The phones were completely untraceable as in there is no point where the user would enter their real name etc even the way you buy them you don’t get them delivered to an address etc, anyone able to link me to something that explains?
It's the government they have control of everything
Usual suspects
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Smuggled in his wattle?
What we’re those clips from at the beginning with the police raid?
Irish move in silence believe me
I hate the crooked cops believe they involved in human trafficking drugs arms the lot. The bad ones are going down soon but this is to the good cops they do a very good job and we should support our good cops I had two out at my house looking for someone and they were such good guys I wish the good cops all ths best
Everything is hackable
Anyone heard about the Clinton's bringing in coke eh ? .
When Bill was Governor of Little Rock.
2 teenage boys killed when they discovered the nocturnal smuggling years ago
@@benlotus2703 You got it ,at lest someone has done some research, thank God.
There's so much fruity shit going on but everyone's sheep an just gets on with there lifes like they aint got most of us like robots while they live untouchable.. everyone blinded by there phones.. where do I start
Monica knew
@@samjohn8969 I say this all the time. People in numbers are stronger than any government could be. But they have split us up into groups. And every one hates each other. There too smart
Won’t catch me using snitch chat
The low level dealers aint gotta worry as if they get caught the shovel is only about 5% pure 😂😂
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The servers were always a vulnerability, they hijacked them and ran an update that put a backdoor in. Ideally with an encrophone you want client to client only.
3210........
And still.
Great video 👌
WIl van Gemert is happy about fighting the kwime