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Ennetcom
Ennetcom was a Netherlands based communications network and service provider. The company was based in the Netherlands as were most of its customers, but most of the company servers were based in Canada. Danny Manupassa, the company owner, was arrested in 2016 amid allegations that the phones were largely used by criminals. The company had about 19,000 users. The phones sold for €1,500 each and used company servers for traffic. The devices had been altered so they could not make calls or use the Internet normally. Canadian authorities seized the servers and passed messages to Dutch authorities. The latter had managed to decrypt 3.6 million messages by 2017, apparently because the key to the messages had been stored on the same servers the messages were on. These messages have led to arrests, including that of Naoufal Fassih. Fassih has been convicted of one charge of murder and one of attempted murder in relation to the murder of Ali Motamed. See also * ANOM * EncroChat – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EncroChat
EncroChat was a Europe-based communications network and service provider that offered modified smartphones allowing encrypted communication among subscribers. It was used primarily by organized crime members to plan criminal activities. Police infiltrated the network between at least March and June 2020 during a Europe-wide investigation. An unidentified source associated with EncroChat announced on the night of 12–13 June 2020 that the company would cease operations because of the police operation. The service had around 60,000 subscribers at the time of its closure. As a result of police being able to read unencrypted EncroChat messages, at least 1,000 arrests had been made across Europe as of 22 December 2020. Background EncroChat handsets emerged in 2016 as a replacement for a previously disabled end-to-end encrypted service. The company had revealed on 31 December 2015 the Version 115 of EncroChat OS, which appears to be the first public release of their operating syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Global
Sky Global was a communications network and service provider founded in 2008 in Vancouver, Canada. A significant share of users of its systems were international crime organizations involved in drug trafficking, and the company management was suspected of collusion. In a series of police raids against criminal organizations in several countries in early 2021, a part of Sky's infrastructure in Western Europe was dismantled, and US Department of Justice issued an arrest warrant against the company's CEO Jean-François Eap. On March 19, 2021, the company apparently shut down the operations after BlackBerry, Inc. cut it off from its services. Its website has been seized by the FBI. Background Sky Global was founded in 2008 by Jean-François Eap, in Vancouver, Canada. A significant share of users of its systems were international crime organizations involved in drug trafficking, and the company management was suspected of collusion. The company provided Sky ECC, a subscription- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoufal Fassih
Naoufal Fassih, also known as Buik (Dutch for "belly"), is a Dutch criminal of Moroccan origins. He has been at the centre of a longrunning feud between two Dutch crime gangs. Criminal background He has criminal links to Spain, Ireland and Morocco. Feud In March 2012 customs seized 200 to 400 kg of cocaine in Antwerp. The seizure was not announced, leading the gang in question to think they had been ripped off by rival criminals. Fassih was associated with Gwenette Martha, who was assassinated in Amsterdam in May 2014 when 80 rounds were fired at him as he left a kebab shop. Fassih was allegedly present at another assassination, that of Samir Bouyakhrichan, in Benahavis, near Marbella in August 2014. Dutch police believe that he was there with five others. Bouyakhrichan was associated with another criminal called Danny Kuiters (aka Danny Daimler). One of Kuiter's enforcers was Peter Raap. On 4 November 2015 Dutch police bugging a car heard Wafaa Balfallah, Fassih's girlfri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Motamed
Mohammad-Reza Kolahi ( fa, محمدرضا کلاهی) (1958–15 December 2015) was a member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) or Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) ( fa, سازمان مجاهدين خلق ايران, sâzmân-e mojâhedīn-e khalq-e īrân), is an Iranian pol ... (MEK) who, according to Iranian authorities, was suspected of planting a bomb at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) that Hafte Tir bombing, killed more than 70 officials on 28 June 1981. Kolahi was assassinated on 15 December 2015. The Islamic Republic of Iran is believed to have been behind the assassination. He reportedly was a freshman student of electrical engineering who worked as an electrician in the IRP. Hafte Tir bombing allegations On 28 June 1981, Hafte Tir bombing, two bombs were detonated at the IRP headquarters in Tehran, killing Chief Justice Mohammad Beheshti and some se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
