EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winner Nick Leather is heading inside the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the “most successful law enforcement operation in UK history” for his latest TV project.
Leather has tied with Mood producer Bonafide Films on the as-yet-untitled series, which we are told is in early-stage conversation with potential buyers.
Tom Dunbar is producing. Leather’s drama will reveal the inner workings of the NCA through a story that focuses on the 2020 infiltration of the encrypted phone-system EncroChat, and how it gave the agency a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to decimate the criminal underworld.
With a ticking clock, a secret to keep hidden and in the face of unprecedented challenges, the NCA ultimately delivered ‘Operation Venetic’, which Leather and the creative team described as the “most successful law enforcement operation in UK history.” There have been more than 3,400 arrests so far including almost 13,300 years of combined sentencing, and it the operation is still ongoing.
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