Encrochat evidence helped convict Jamie 'Iceman' Stevenson who last month admitted masterminding a £76m plot to smuggle cocaine into Scotland via crates of bananas.
The National Crime Agency has defeated a legal challenge which threatened to undermine arrests made using evidence from the EncroChat messaging system.
A lawsuit, brought on behalf of 11 people arrested as a result of Encrochat data, claimed NCA officers had misled the judge who granted the warrants. It claimed the NCA were wrong to say the Encrochat probe was a 'single investigation' rather than multiple ones and that the network had been used 'exclusively' for criminal purposes.
"There were a few cases in which there was not enough evidence to show what use was being made of the EncroChat handset in question, but no evidence of any use for purposes which were not criminal. The contrary is not arguable. Nor do we consider that it is arguable that the IPT erred in law in concluding that Operation Venetic was 'a single operation or investigation'."
White, 46, from Glasgow, was extradited from Brazil and jailed for almost 10 years in August last year. EncroChat - which had an estimated 9000 users in the UK - was cracked by a joint investigative team of French and Dutch law enforcement agencies.
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