Decryption of Sky ECC messaging system leads to 119 convictions
A Belgian court has sentenced more than a hundred people for drug-related crimes in the country’s largest-ever criminal case, based on decrypted messages among gang members. Sky ECC, an encrypted messaging service founded by a Canadian developer and used by criminal organisations worldwide, was cracked by Belgian, Dutch and French law enforcement in 2021, leading to large-scale raids and arrests in several European countries.
He said people were punished according to the severity of their crimes which included drug trafficking, money laundering, arms trafficking, extortion and kidnapping. Among the main defendants was Eridan Munoz Guerrero, an Albanian national who admitted having run a cocaine trafficking operation in Brussels and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. “I played and I lost,” Munoz Guerrero said during court proceedings, in which his legal team succeeded in lowering his sentence from 19 years.
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