{"id":26935,"date":"2024-01-07T04:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=26935"},"modified":"2024-01-07T04:03:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T09:03:14","slug":"how-the-met-took-down-the-kingpins-of-organised-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/01\/07\/how-the-met-took-down-the-kingpins-of-organised-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Met took down the kingpins of organised crime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Det Ch Insp Driss Hayoukane was on the brink of retirement from the Metropolitan Police in March 2020, when he got a call he could not resist.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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French and Dutch police had infiltrated a supposedly uncrackable mobile messaging network called EncroChat, used by criminals to trade drugs and guns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Det Ch Insp Hayoukane was asked to assemble a team to read the secret messages, with the aim of bringing down major crime figures in London’s underworld.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If they succeeded, the Met would help secure the biggest organised crime bust in legal history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now a new podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live,\u00a0Gangster Presents… Catching the Kingpins<\/i>, tells the story of how the force helped catch them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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