Royalty and politicians are among celebrities and wealthy business figures who used the SAME secret phone network smashed by police to track down 746 UK crime kingpins. High-profile names were today linked to the known 60,000 users of EncroChat, with 10,000 in the UK alone. Deepak Vij, who is the Director of law firm ABV Solicitors, said celebrities would have been among EncroChat users due to the privacy it offered customersWhat is the 'EncroChat' smartphone system? And French authorities admitted yesterday although the system was used by criminals, at least ten per cent were legitimate, innocent users. ‘If it was just criminals that used these things, the devices would have been made illegal – they weren’t.

Source: Daily Mail July 03, 2020 11:33 UTC