Two applicants challenged the fact it was transferred to UK authorities and used as prosecution evidence against them
A Liverpool drug dealer who sought to challenge the remote retrieval of EncroChat data and its transfer to UK authorities had his application declared as inadmissible. The man appeared before the European Court of Human Rights earlier this month alongside another applicant concerned with the transferral of data from the encrypted messaging platform to law enforcement agencies .
Data retrieval ceased on July 2 2020, having been carried out on a total of 39,571 of the 66,000 handsets. The court heard: ' EncroChat’s dismantling led to the arrest of 6,558 suspects and the seizure of 103 tonnes of cocaine, 163 tonnes of cannabis and 3.3 tonnes of heroin worldwide, in addition to the seizure of weapons, explosives and proceeds of crime.
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