The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is due to rule later this month on whether or not a warrant to intercept data on the EncroChat encrypted phone network was obtained legally by the National Crime Agency’s (NCA’s) Operation Venetic, which has led to the convictions of 500 people in the UK.
Another 1,000 are awaiting trial on the basis of EncroChat messages and The Epoch Times has spoken to five people whose lives have become entangled in Operation Venetic.
Hatice Osman is pregnant with her boyfriend Mehmet Yildirim’s child.
Yildirim was arrested in north London in the spring of 2022 and has been charged with conspiracy to supply around 20 kilos of Class A drugs….