Marcus Brookfield was sentenced to eight years in prison in March 2022 after investigators discovered he was using the EncroChat mobile phone platform to buy blocks of cocaine worth tens of thousands of dollars per kilogramme.

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When law enforcement in France and the Netherlands cracked the illegal service, they were able to capture data from thousands of devices across Europe, which they then shared with the National Crime Agency.

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