A leaked letter from a French magistrate to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has emerged as EncroChat campaigners continue to push for tests to be carried out to prove their claim the encrypted network was hacked in a “live intercept” operation, which would make the Encrochat dialogues inadmissible in a UK court.
Between March 2020 and June 2020, French police managed to compromise EncroChat, which stored data at the OVH server in Roubaix, near Lille.
Data was passed to Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA), which launched Operation Venetic, which has led to more than 1,000 individuals being convicted of offences ranging from possession of Class A drugs to firearms offences and conspiracy to murder….