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Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now 'criminal' EncroChat users are being rounded up

Dr Dan Holdsworth
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This is the classic trick for landing someone you don't like in the smelly. Take a list of, say, people banking with a tax haven that you have managed to lift from somewhere and add a few extra names and details to it. Hey presto, guilt by association, and the reason that American courts use a principle that evidence obtained illegally is inadmissible in court.

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