Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Guns, ammunition, drugs and more than £2.5m in dirty cash has been seized in Greater Manchester in the year since police hacked into the secret Encrochat servers in France, detectives have revealed.
Some 167 suspects have been arrested and 128 of them have been charged in a major breakthrough against organised crime. For years, the totally legal EncroChat service allowed 50,000 users around the world - 9,000 of them in the UK - to communicate in the knowledge none of their texts would be uncovered by law enforcement.
It was WhatsApp for serious criminals. READ MORE:Beloved dad found dead in his home named - a neighbour heroically tried to save him That ended
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