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Berlin (AP) - The arrest of two suspects in a major raid in Berlin and Brandenburg on Thursday goes back to decrypted data from the short message service EncroChat, according to the public prosecutor in the capital.
"Both arrests were based on EncroChat," said Chief Prosecutor Thorsten Cloidt on Thursday.
According to the public prosecutor's office, data sets that had come to Berlin from the French authorities via the Federal Criminal Police Office were decisive in establishing an investigation into drug trafficking and trafficking in machine guns against the men aged 44 and 22.
The EncroChat data gave rise to an urgent suspicion that led to the arrest warrants, it said.
EncroChat was mainly used by criminals.
The police in the Netherlands and France managed to siphon off more than 20 million secret messages last year, as the European judicial authority Eurojust announced in July 2020.
60,000 participants would have used the elaborately encrypted chat service.
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The criminals felt very secure in their communication because it was said that the technology could not be cracked.
The penetration into the technical infrastructure of the provider then sent “shock waves through organized criminal gangs across Europe”, according to the judiciary at the time.
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