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00:24Police emergency
00:26Is there somebody shooting on my door?
00:28My door! Shut!
00:30It's shutting!
00:32Seven people in the house! Children!
00:34And have they come into your house?
00:36Yeah, somebody's outside!
00:38Somebody shut the door!
00:40Nobody ready! Nobody knew the door come back!
00:42Do you know who could have done it?
00:44Have you seen anybody?
00:46No idea, no idea!
00:48Alright, we're on the way, alright?
00:50Just stay on the line with me!
00:52Please, I have children in the house!
00:54Please!
00:56We're gonna get there!
01:00But calm down, we'll get there as soon as we can, okay?
01:04Please!
01:26It's crucial that we find the truth!
01:30Hands on your back!
01:32Got to question everything
01:34Believe nobody
01:36It's almost a game of chess
01:38Trying to slip up
01:40This is your opportunity to talk to me
01:42Yes, potential sighting of the suspect
01:56That's received
02:00Intelligence shines a light on areas of humanity that other people never see
02:10We've got an IC3 male on the drive to the rear of the vehicle
02:14In my career, I've seen an awful lot of criminality
02:18I was the intelligence manager for Westminster Bridge terrorist attack
02:24Intel state suspect may carry firearms
02:26Hold position
02:28Subsequent to that
02:30The Finsbury Park terrorist attack
02:32Grenfell Tower
02:34Honestly, I can say that when this landed on my desk
02:38It surprised and shocked me
02:40Okay, team
02:42Mr Robbenhurst has kindly agreed to come and open our day
02:46So, over to you sir
02:48Okay, morning everyone
02:50I wanted to come along
02:52Because today is a really significant day
02:54Nationally
02:55You are part of a national operation
02:56I'm going to tell you a little bit about it
02:58Before I do
03:00No mobile phones
03:02Twitter, tweets, social media
03:04Recording of any of this
03:05Because actually it's embargoed
03:07In essence
03:09It is the most significant operation
03:11I can recall
03:12Tackling serious and organised crime in my entire service
03:15The National Crime Agency
03:17Working with other European partners
03:19Have got access to data
03:21Of a criminal, secure, encrypted
03:24Telecommunications platform
03:26Encro phones
03:28Those phones, just to give you context
03:30Cost three grand
03:31And you buy one
03:32Because you think you can talk to someone else
03:34Who's got one completely
03:35Freely
03:36So
03:37If you're willing to spend three thousand pounds
03:40On a device
03:41You're probably a half decent player
03:43In the organised crime world
03:44So
03:45They may be sophisticated
03:46But the individuals
03:47Who are going after today
03:48Their weaknesses
03:49They're greedy
03:50And they always think
03:51It's never going to happen to them
03:52So hopefully today
03:53In Bedfordshire it is
03:54On that note
03:55We need to go and do some business
03:56So
03:57Big thank you
03:58And good luck today
03:59Thank you
04:00Thank you
04:01Thank you
04:02Thank you
04:03Go
04:04Go
04:05Go
04:06Go
04:07Go
04:08Go
04:09Go
04:10Go
04:11IncroChat
04:12On that note
04:13It's a really secure piece of software
04:14It's been used by organised crime groups
04:16To speak to each other
04:17In complete privacy
04:23Some police
04:24Ham out, your hands are shown
04:25What they do not know however
04:26Is that it's been compromised by law enforcement
04:29Hands on top of your head
04:31Great
04:32Police
04:33Police!
04:39This is compelling. They're talking about an importation from Colombia.
04:45To analyse data lifted from EncroChat,
04:48a specialist team is handpicked at short notice from across Bedfordshire Police
04:52and each is sworn to secrecy.
04:55Its code name, Operation Costello.
04:59So he sent him a picture and then...
05:02..to see unfiltered, completely unredacted messaging
05:09between criminal networks.
05:12This is unprecedented.
05:15So he's talking about can't do pregnant on these.
05:18It's something to do with impregnating fish with drugs.
05:22And these aren't the people that are dealing on the street.
05:25These are the middle and upper tier offenders.
05:28The people that are operating in the shadows.
05:31He then talks about the Antwerp door.
05:34Now this is the covert transportation route that they've used
05:38into all other European countries.
05:41This is a vast network crossing national, international boundaries.
05:46So here we've got him again talking to this person, Scorpion, VIP, LTN.
05:51Our task is to identify who these handles operating in Bedfordshire belong to,
05:56in the real world.
05:59But this is really a race against time.
06:02If we don't act quickly, information and evidence will be disposed of.
06:09This is a confidential operation, the first of a series that we're going to be undertaking over the next few weeks.
06:16Among the 66,000 worldwide users of EncroChat is a sophisticated network of organized criminals operating out of Luton.
06:25They are behind the shotgun attack on a family home.
06:29And I'll just be where the radio opens in case the team enforce dynamically as we have this briefing.
06:36The shooters fled the country.
06:39But by analyzing messages, the team have traced a local drug supplier who claims to have provided the weapon.
06:45He's known by his Encro handle, Frontrunner.
06:50Subject one is Ethan Mitchell.
06:52He's believed to be a large supplier within the Luton area.
06:56The surveillance team are out at the moment.
06:59Ethan Mitchell leaves his home address this morning.
07:01The team will jump on and arrest him.
07:03Is there any updates from the boating team?
07:06Direction.
07:08Negative.
07:15Suspect sighted.
07:18Leading the address.
07:25Suspect gets into a wide LV.
07:31Negative, stop, stop, stop, run out.
07:35Oh shit.
07:36It's coming your way, it's coming your way, foul stop.
07:46Oh my god.
07:52Oh shit.
07:53What a hell in it.
07:55Yeah, probably.
07:56It's not me.
07:57It's not me.
07:58It's not me.
07:59It's not me.
08:00It's not me.
08:01It's not me.
08:02It's not me.
08:03It's not me.
08:04It's not me.
08:05It's not me.
08:06It's not me.
08:07Where's the Aldi?
08:08I see it, weren't they?
08:09Yeah, we're still in pursuit.
08:13Dave, I'll go right.
08:19He's decamped at the end of Blisbury Hill.
08:21Got no direction to travel.
08:28What's he wearing, anybody seeing what he's wearing?
08:30Yeah dark clothing, dark clothing.
08:31All black clothing.
08:33Yes, it's confirmed that Ethan Mitchell is the driver.
08:36All black clothing.
08:45Spend it. Spend it. Spend it. Spend it.
08:50This car. This car.
08:51Thanks, car.
08:54One in custody.
08:56Right, Ethan.
08:57I'm arresting you on suspicion of conspiracy supplies of Class A drugs.
08:59You know what I'm saying?
09:14With Ethan Mitchell in custody,
09:16detectives search for his encrypted Encro phone
09:19to prove that he is front-runner.
09:23Can you seize it?
09:24Yes, seize it. OK.
09:26No, that's not here.
09:28EncroChat devices are far more expensive than your average device,
09:33although it looks the same.
09:35That's his number, yeah, right.
09:37Which links him to this Encro.
09:38Yeah.
09:39So we know, it's evidence that somebody's gone and fired her,
09:42thrown off through a door, and the words are, I'll enter my shotty.
09:48We have got hundreds of thousands of lines of data.
09:52It's unique in that we can use it in evidence.
09:56Is there anything there?
09:57But, of course, finding things like drugs and cash or devices
10:01show that, yeah, that information you've got from EncroChat is right.
10:05OK. No Encro.
10:06Yeah, but we've still got quite a bit to search, so...
10:09OK.
10:10Cheers, bye.
10:11We don't know what else they've got yet.
10:13No, no.
10:14We need to just slow down.
10:15Just slow down, yeah.
10:16See what's been at the premises and decide on a way forward.
10:19Yeah.
10:20Ethan.
10:21How are you doing, buddy?
10:22All right?
10:23Your snitches here.
10:24I'll wake you up.
10:25Hi.
10:26The intelligence around Ethan Mitchell was that he was linked to drugs supply
10:45and also a shotgun incident.
10:47Yeah.
10:48His attribution is going to be key if we don't get the device, which doesn't sound like we have.
10:54Without physical evidence from Ethan Mitchell's address, the team must rely on the hacked EncroChat messages
11:00to build their case that he is front-runner.
11:05But revealing the intel shared by European police so early in the operation
11:09could alert thousands of other criminals and mean they dropped their phones.
11:13If you reveal this in an interview, he is then going to know immediately that we've had months of data.
11:19Yeah.
11:20And as a direct consequence, he will then tell everybody else and it will reveal.
11:25OK, man.
11:26What we're trying to do is protect the information for as long as we can.
11:29Yeah.
11:30As soon as we reveal any of this information in an interview, the chance of working our way upstream is gone.
11:35Yeah.
11:36So what we have now is a collapsing timeframe.
11:39As soon as this information breaks, that will send ripples across the criminal fraternity.
11:45We'll have to see what comes out of the search, won't we?
11:47Yeah.
11:48Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:49They know it's probably only a matter of time until it's them that's next.
11:52Absolutely, it is priority number one that we send this man to prison.
11:57We've got more information than they realise, but we're running out of time.
12:06OMG.
12:08OMG.
12:09White and brown.
12:10White and brown.
12:11He has a problem.
12:12Shall I give the boss the good news?
12:14Yeah.
12:18In the back of the van is a wash bag full of white and brown.
12:22I would say it's probably half to a kilo in town.
12:27Oh, excellent.
12:31Good news.
12:32Okay, thank you.
12:33Fine.
12:34Found one and a half kilos in Mitchell's van.
12:37Oh, brilliant.
12:38Yeah.
12:41Finding drugs in a van near Ethan Mitchell's family home gives the team enough physical evidence
12:46to switch strategy.
12:48They can interview him about the drugs without revealing the intelligence gained from the hack.
12:57The likes of Ethan Mitchell, he's probably lower down.
12:59That's why all the stuff's around his house.
13:01It buys time to identify his crime bosses higher up the network before they realise EncroChat
13:06has been compromised.
13:08An organised crime group is comprised of lots of different tiers.
13:11Some of these people will not get their hands dirty at all.
13:14No, no, no.
13:15You can do warrants all day long and you won't get them with stuff.
13:18No, no, no.
13:20The thing that these people are, they're almost unnoticed.
13:23He gets everything.
13:24Yeah.
13:25Yeah.
13:26It's previously been very hard for us to identify middle and upper tier.
13:30They don't even have a parking ticket.
13:32Without this information they would never have crossed our paths.
13:35To go.
13:36Yeah, no, yeah.
13:37Yeah.
13:38This provides us a golden opportunity to bring these people to justice.
13:47Can I accept my right to no comment for the whole interview and not reply?
13:51Of course you can, yeah.
13:52Further going, no comment.
13:53No reply.
13:54No comment.
13:55Yeah.
13:56Okay.
13:57It was a transit van.
13:58Inside the cabin, a black coloured bag has been recovered.
14:02It's containing white and brown powder.
14:04It is suspected the powder is cocaine and heroin.
14:07Where did you get them from?
14:09Are you holding them for someone else?
14:12Have you been put under any duress to hold those drugs?
14:17No matter.
14:18Mum's the registered owner on that van.
14:21Are you aware of any involvement she has in drug dealing?
14:25No problem.
14:26At no point do you want to distance your family to the mess you're finding yourself in at the moment.
14:32It would be very easy to distance yourself from them, you know, but you're unwilling to do that as well.
14:37No problem.
14:43He must be thinking, I potentially am not going to see the light of day for another eight or nine years now.
14:51Thanks.
14:52Thanks.
14:53Excellent.
14:58Okay, so you're going to be charged with the following offence.
15:00Contrary to Section 5-3 and Schedule 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Act,
15:04having your possession 1.3 kilograms of cocaine with intent to supply it to another person.
15:09So a message was released by EncroChat to alert their users that there had been a compromise.
15:25What they don't know, however, is who is behind it or what information has been obtained.
15:30Police storm premises in what's being called the biggest law enforcement operation ever in the UK.
15:41Made possible by infiltrating an encrypted messaging system used exclusively by criminals.
15:47So far from this operation, over 650 people have been arrested.
15:58On a daily basis, kilos have been recovered.
16:02Ooh, fucking hell.
16:0470 firearms have been seized.
16:08Ooh, there's a lot of cash in here.
16:10Over £50 million has been seized.
16:14And these devices.
16:16An organised crime group may lose a few moa-tier offenders.
16:24But as quickly as those people get arrested, somebody else will come in.
16:28Move!
16:29At the very top, there'll be a principal nominal who is pulling the strings.
16:36If we truly want to dismantle organised crime groups, the ultimate way to do that is to cut the head off the snake.
16:42So it's really important to identify who that person is.
16:45So it's really important to identify who that person is.
17:12The Operation Costello team have arrested and charged a number of lower-tier members of an organised crime group, including Ethan Mitchell.
17:26But the true identities of those higher up the network remain unknown.
17:31Whereabouts is the gun messaging?
17:33The National Crime Agency share their intel on a high-ranking drugs and arms dealer who is running the network.
17:42He uses multiple encro handles and is known as UNCLE.
17:47Let's just be really clear on what we're looking at here.
17:51We believe that UNCLE receives or sends a message.
17:55Right, which is basically a list of firearms.
18:05And that's an impressive array of firearms.
18:09Show this to nephew. I have these available to sell.
18:13It is. That increases the need to move on it.
18:16So, for the last few days we've been working really hard to identify an individual who we know as UNCLE.
18:26The encro chat heavily implicates this person UNCLE with the supply and distribution of a menu of firearms and ammunition.
18:36And when we say menu, we really mean a menu, don't we?
18:41Two AK-47s, one Tech-9, one Uzi, one all-black Scorpion push-on suppressor and one MAC liquor 9mm, 20 round mag.
18:54I've got no idea what half of that stuff is, but it sounds deadly.
18:57The working hypothesis is that UNCLE is a very high-level organised criminal who is pulling all the strings.
19:07And he indicates that he intends to leave the country to travel, we believe, to Dubai on a private plane.
19:13So we need to do everything we can in the next couple of hours to try and bottom out.
19:19So, not good news.
19:21I spoke to somebody at the National Airline Traffic.
19:25Yeah.
19:26No flights left at that time.
19:29The first flight, I think, was at about nine o'clock the following morning.
19:33To Dubai? Yeah.
19:35Can we check the manifest for that one?
19:37When you're running an operation of this scale and size, it's really important to think on your feet constantly.
19:43It says here, I'll transfer this gadget to nephew.
19:46So he's obviously got another device.
19:48Yeah.
19:49He does not readily use these devices.
19:52Uncle, whoever he is, is clearly much, much higher up.
19:56Yeah.
19:57This operation started small, and I know that this will grow and grow and grow.
20:00And every day, something new comes in.
20:03We just haven't got enough at the minute.
20:05We need that final link, don't we?
20:08We need to follow the breadcrumbs in order to prevent something terrible from happening to somebody.
20:20The secret Operation Costello team have been together for a month.
20:24Today, details about coordinated police operations across Europe will be briefed to the world's press.
20:32Is everybody here?
20:33Yes.
20:35Today, we've got multiple warrants to conduct in relation to three subjects, part of a criminal network involved in this offence.
20:43But Uncle's true identity is still unknown.
20:45His message is named three suspects, believed to be mid-tier members of his network, operating above Ethan Mitchell, selling and storing wholesale quantities of drugs.
20:56They must be arrested before the network goes dark.
21:00We are looking at a male called Kamran Bashir and Ibraz Iqbal.
21:07Kamran Bashir, he is dealing in multi-kilos of Class A drugs.
21:12And there's also intelligence to suggest that he has access to a handgun that he stores at his Russian girlfriend's address.
21:21She's heavily involved, has contacts with the unidentified uncle.
21:25Kamran Bashir is under control of the surveillance team this morning and will be followed off from his home address.
21:35Standby, standby, standby.
21:49Come on, let's proceed.
21:58The first suspect, Kamran Bashir, aka nephew, is on his way to work.
22:04Becky's very clear that he's going to be intercepted upon getting out of the car.
22:08The other arrests can only be made once Bashir's car has been stopped, so he doesn't realise what's happening and alert them to ditch their Encro phones.
22:22As soon as we've got hands on Bashir, they can do it.
22:33Is he nearly there?
22:42Is he nearly there?
22:48Going to be devastated.
22:53Just want him out of the car.
22:55Naked.
22:56Detectives are tracking three more suspects believed to work for an organised crime boss known as Uncle.
23:20Is he nearly there?
23:21Come on, here, please.
23:22Grab me off.
23:23You have to arrest.
23:24You've got to be sure, yeah?
23:25Yeah.
23:26Team 1, when he comes to the oven.
23:27Go.
23:28Yep.
23:29Command to team leaders, please move forward and execute your warrants.
23:33Right, secure, secure, secure.
23:35Go down, go down.
23:36Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:39Go down.
23:41Go down, go down.
23:42Command to team leaders, please move forward and execute your warrants.
23:46Wait, secure, secure, secure.
23:48Go down, go down.
23:49Yeah, yeah, go back.
23:53Wait, go, go, go.
23:54OK.
24:00Can you confirm if it fails at the location, please?
24:12I'm under arrest with suspicion of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
24:17Have you ever been arrested before?
24:19No.
24:20No? So it's the first time for everybody.
24:23With all three suspects in custody, detectives search Cameron Beshear's workplace for his
24:28Encro phone and further prove that he's a middle-tier manager of the criminal network.
24:34We've got evidence that he's been dealing from the back of the premises, but I'm not
24:37sure exactly where.
24:38Yeah.
24:39Can you pop the boot for us, please?
24:41Hi, boss, how are you doing?
24:42All right.
24:43Just a real quick one.
24:44Yep.
24:45I'm going to be doing regional media, probably, since we're online.
24:49Yeah.
24:50That's mine.
24:51Yeah.
24:52I'm just looking at a bag in the boot of a car with a load of cash in it.
24:55How are you?
24:56Yeah.
24:57And I can tell you it's how much?
25:00A lot.
25:02A lot of cash.
25:09Got two phones.
25:10Yeah.
25:11Yeah.
25:12Among 42 devices found at the suspect's addresses are three Encro phones using handles linked
25:17to Uncle's network.
25:21The Encro device implicates Iqbal.
25:23Yeah.
25:24In addition to that, you've got about one and a half kilos of what we believe to be coke.
25:29The phones are attributed to Cameron Bashir and Ibraz Iqbal by matching them with the known
25:35movements of their regular mobiles.
25:37With this operation we're breaking new ground.
25:39We're exploring a technology that we didn't know very much about.
25:43If you could just stand back.
25:44Got seconded in specialists in digital forensics and cyber.
25:48It's a once in a career opportunity.
25:51This will help us to better understand the network for a long time to come.
25:55Mr Bashir, I'm going to be authorising your detention here at the police station.
26:01That means you'll be with us here for a number of hours so that the officers involved can
26:05interview you about the offence, OK?
26:07Have you had any alcohol or drugs over the course of the last 24 hours?
26:10Is that going to put it to my mum?
26:11No, no, not at all.
26:13That's interesting.
26:16What have you got in your mind when you think about a criminal?
26:19Not Cameron Bashir.
26:20No.
26:21Not someone that looks like my GP.
26:25The people using EncroChat are otherwise unassuming.
26:30What was going on, hidden in plain sight, right under our nose.
26:34It does make you question whether you've been looking in the right places.
26:39What I hope with the interviews is that they will tell us who is it that they're answerable to.
26:47Now that Costello and its sister operations have been made public, the team decide to reveal
26:53their intel in the hope it will persuade the suspects to give up Uncle and his senior associates.
26:59OK.
27:00I want to talk to you about the Encro phone.
27:04This black clock is your mobile phone and this represents the Encro phone.
27:09Can you account for why the Encro phone is using the same mass as your own phone for such a long period of time?
27:14No comment.
27:15Locker 32.
27:17That is a locker that we believe is yours.
27:20No comment.
27:21No comment.
27:22OK.
27:23Well, in that locker, we found an encrypted device.
27:27Does VIP Cocker mean anything to you?
27:30No comment.
27:32Or the link name Bash?
27:34No comment.
27:35No comment.
27:36I've chatted with a device name of VIP Boss LTM.
27:41They're talking about prices.
27:43I don't understand the question, but no comment.
27:46Could this be price regarding the purchase of Class O drugs?
27:50No comment.
27:51Who sends you this photo?
27:53No comment.
27:54It's quite damning, isn't it?
27:56No comment.
27:57You can only send those photos that you've taken.
28:00No comment.
28:02It's Ibraz Iqbal forcing you to keep hold of those drugs.
28:07What's the structure of your business?
28:10No comment.
28:11Who's the boss?
28:12No comment.
28:13Is it you?
28:14No comment.
28:15You use the name VIP Boss Luton.
28:17Are you just cocky when you use that name?
28:22Are you scared of your price?
28:27Sure you're not being forced to do something against your will?
28:30No comment.
28:40Right, guys, can we just gather round, please?
28:42Let's get on with this.
28:44Please be open-minded.
28:46We know for sure that there is a safe somewhere which is full of cash.
28:49With Cameron Bashir and Ibraz Iqbal both refusing to cooperate,
28:53detectives focus on Bashir's girlfriend.
28:56She's got like £1200 pairs of shoes but £500 in debt with her water bill and stuff.
29:01The messages reveal that Uncle directed his workers to a safe full of cash
29:06buried beneath a garage before fleeing to Dubai.
29:09It's crucial physical evidence which could identify him.
29:14He entrusts its location to someone who calls themselves the Russian Lady.
29:21Firstly, she doesn't want a brief.
29:24And secondly, we think she might tell us the whole tale about what's been going on.
29:29And we are missing the safe in the garage floor.
29:33So we didn't manage to identify this Uncle then?
29:36Not yet, but I'm hopeful she might help us with that because she knows who he is.
29:39Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
29:41I think we should just play our card, frankly.
29:43I don't think we've got anything to lose now.
29:45It's out there in the public domain.
29:47If you're able to crack who Uncle is, then...
29:50There's no pressure, is there?
29:52Don't worry.
29:59So how do you know Cameron Bashir?
30:02Where did you meet him?
30:04Um...
30:06Let's say on the streets.
30:10OK.
30:11So where does he live?
30:12He's living in his mum's house.
30:14And do you see him every day?
30:16He's coming for one hour, yeah.
30:18For one hour in the area.
30:20That's it?
30:21OK.
30:22Are you happy with that arrangement?
30:25Not too much, but he's working.
30:29Have you ever met his mum?
30:30No.
30:31Have you ever met any of his family?
30:33No.
30:35OK.
30:36OK.
30:37Do you know what an encrypted phone is?
30:41This is what?
30:42If I told you that we believe that you have used Cameron's encrypted mobile phone to send messages,
30:51what would you say about that?
30:52No, it's not the truth.
30:54OK.
30:55Have you ever referred to anybody as Uncle before?
30:58As Encro?
30:59Uncle.
31:00Uncle, like relative.
31:01Uncle.
31:02Uncle.
31:03I don't know.
31:04They have Uncle, Aunties, the whole family.
31:08Of course, yeah.
31:09Maybe I need to be a bit more specific.
31:11Yeah.
31:12Have you ever used an Encro phone and sent messages to somebody called Uncle?
31:17No.
31:18No.
31:19No.
31:20No.
31:21OK.
31:22What I'm going to do is read through some messages, OK?
31:26A message comes in, are you awake nephew?
31:30I've got a key.
31:31I've got a key.
31:32It's in a pot.
31:33I've got a key.
31:34It's in a pot.
31:35The message in reply to that, should I pass him your messages, Uncle?
31:38Is that you replying on behalf of the camera?
31:41No, I'm not.
31:43And Uncle replies, don't call me please until I get to Dubai.
31:47No.
31:48And the reply to that is, it's only 194 there, you took all Uncle.
31:56The rest is in the floor safe in the garage.
31:59Just move the car if it needs the money.
32:01No, it doesn't mean anything to you.
32:03At all.
32:04You might check cameras if I'm lying and you didn't either.
32:09So I'm sitting right.
32:10Well, I'm sitting right opposite you, so I don't need to check the cameras.
32:13But then you will check us on the moves.
32:15Don't always believe everything that happens in the movie.
32:18There's an outgoing message that says, it's Russian lady.
32:23OK, is that you?
32:25I never used anything, so...
32:30But you are a Russian lady, aren't you?
32:33You might call me.
32:35So it was somebody else pretending to be you, yeah?
32:38Yeah, mate.
32:43So what's the plan then?
32:44You're going to leave her to think that over?
32:46I think that she probably is being exploited and controlled.
32:50And I hope that she'll see the error of her ways
32:53and tell us all about it tomorrow.
32:55Who's uncle?
32:56Who is uncle?
33:05The Cyber Team are analysing over 21,000 gigabytes of data
33:09to try and identify EncroChat users higher up the chain.
33:13Hi, Mum, it's Steve Gorman from Cyber.
33:23The most recent update is Bashir's conventional device.
33:25He's saved all of his contacts using their Encro handle names.
33:29Oh, my God.
33:33It does that.
33:34Well, I mean, it's been getting away with it for years and years.
33:37So you would get complacent, wouldn't you?
33:39Yeah.
33:4030 or 40 individuals.
33:42So what we'll need to do now is some checks on all of those.
33:47One of the users who has been compromised
33:50is a top-tier member of Uncle's network
33:53responsible for importing wholesale quantities of Class A drugs
33:57into the UK, known as Chrissy.
34:01Chrissy, how do you know this, man?
34:03No common.
34:04What's his real name?
34:05No common.
34:06No common.
34:07And is he your boss?
34:08No common.
34:09With Uncle still out of reach,
34:12Chrissy becomes Operation Costello's highest-profile target.
34:17Are you in any danger, Cameron, that we need to be aware of?
34:21No common.
34:22What about your family?
34:23Are they in any danger?
34:24No common.
34:32So, Mr Bashir, has the officer told you
34:34what's going on in relation to this at all, yeah?
34:36No.
34:37Clearly by the look of your face, probably not.
34:39So you're going to be charged with three offences.
34:42Do not have to say anything,
34:43but it may hold me defence if you do not mention now
34:45something which you later rely on in court.
34:47She conspired together with Ibrahimovic Bell
34:50to supply quantity of cocaine,
34:52a controlled drug of Class A.
34:54And the lady that you brought here?
34:56You're about home.
34:57Is she still in custody?
34:58I can't divulge, I don't know the details.
35:00OK.
35:01Yeah.
35:04OK.
35:14While the team tried to identify Chrissy,
35:17they receive a tip-off about the location of Uncle's garage.
35:21If the safe full of cash could be seized,
35:24it might prove Uncle's identity
35:26and bring down his whole network.
35:30Ah.
35:31The site is registered to one of the suspects in custody,
35:35Ibraz Iqbal.
35:36Are you all right with your car?
35:37Ibraz Iqbal.
35:38What's your car right there?
35:39What the car is like?
35:40Ibraz Iqbal.
35:41No worries.
35:42I don't have a contact with you, my brother.
35:43Are you all right with your car?
35:44Are you all right with your car?
35:45What the car?
35:46What the car is, what the car is, what's right now?
35:47Is this like us all-
35:49After batches running out?
35:50It's just like our batteries are running out.
35:56Fucking big pit.
35:58Yeah?
35:59He...
36:00He knows, he knows the school, I think, there might be something there.
36:05He says, and also the people are watching us, like, like, down there.
36:11So, no, there actually might be a scene.
36:17It goes all the way down.
36:20Fucking hell, I did not see this coming from here.
36:24There's a pickaxe.
36:25Will that help?
36:26Pickaxe, yeah, please.
36:27Michelle.
36:28Is that back, everybody?
36:29Yeah, I've got a break.
36:31There's definitely stuff in there, bags.
36:34Oh, my God.
36:38What is that?
36:40It's fucking deep.
36:42Yeah.
36:46Yeah.
36:47Tom, it's Julie Hanson.
36:48I'm just wondering how you're getting on.
36:49We're all on tenterhooks here.
36:51Yes.
36:52Yeah.
36:53Nothing obvious at the moment, I'll be honest with you.
36:55But it looks like it's been like that for a while, does it?
36:58Yeah.
37:00This safe will be much more readily accessible than that,
37:03so I'm fairly confident it's not there.
37:07I feel like we're creeping slowly forward, aren't we?
37:11But it's a complex web.
37:14It's very hard to tackle the principle because they keep their hands clean.
37:19These people are just like ghosts.
37:22It's about eliminating all of the possibilities and what you're left with is the truth.
37:37Operation Costello team are trying to identify Uncle and his upper-tier associates before they ditch their encrophones.
37:45But they need the suspects in custody to cooperate.
37:49I think from my perspective, the girlfriend is still a really important person.
37:54If she gets released, they're going to think she's a grass and she's in a realistic situation.
37:59Yeah, absolutely.
38:00It could be they're offering us some sort of deal, as in witness protection.
38:06It's very difficult for us to get an OCG member to give us information.
38:11Because, of course, they've been institutionalised in their own way.
38:14But it's their opportunity to really wipe the slate clean.
38:26Right.
38:28As far as you're aware, are you the only woman in Kamran Bashir's life?
38:35I don't know.
38:37Would it come as a surprise to you that he's married?
38:41He's married?
38:43With two children.
38:44That's where he goes when he's not seeing you.
38:49With two children?
38:50His children, with his wife.
38:55I don't know.
38:56Which is why he only sees you for one hour.
38:58He spends the rest of his time with his family.
39:01I didn't know about this.
39:04He has two children.
39:05Two children is...
39:11Right.
39:12I'll put it bluntly.
39:13I don't think you're going to see Kamran for a long time.
39:16We know this encrypted phone belongs to Kamran.
39:19He's getting up to some bad things.
39:22And you may or may not know that.
39:24Chances are you probably do.
39:26You also know Uncle.
39:28Do you have any concerns that Uncle will do anything to you
39:32if you're released from this police station?
39:34We have to help you.
39:35But you have to help us.
39:37Tell me about this protection.
39:39They've moved you somewhere new.
39:40In the apartment?
39:41Yes.
39:42But to do that, you have to give us something.
39:47We are not.
39:48Unfortunately.
39:49No.
39:50Are you feeling OK?
39:51Are you going home?
39:52No.
39:53No.
39:54No.
39:55No.
39:56No.
39:57No.
39:58No.
39:59No.
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40:38No.
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40:40No.
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40:42No.
40:43No.
40:44No.
40:45We've now fully revealed our hand, and they all know that they're going to get charged
40:49and sent to prison for a long period of time on the back of NKRO evidence.
40:57A lot of these people on this screen right now that we don't know the identity of in the real world.
41:02So that's the dilemma we've got tonight.
41:05Detectives make a breakthrough in the hunt for Uncle and his associates.
41:17A driver working for Chrissy the Importer has been arrested with a quarter of a million pounds worth of cocaine.
41:24Intel and NKRO chat messages about the shipment reveal Chrissy's true identity as Blazerz Blaise Holub, a Polish national.
41:36We knew that he'd left the country on the 18th of July, and we expected him to return.
41:42Sure enough, we got on alert last night to say that he'd booked a flight back from Warsaw to Luton.
41:49So we should hear shortly whether he's on the flight.
42:01Did you get that?
42:03Go again.
42:11Hello.
42:12There you go.
42:13Pop your arms up for us.
42:16There you go.
42:17Good man.
42:18Blazer.
42:19I'm arresting you on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
42:22Okay, so you do not have to say anything, but it may hold me depends.
42:24Could you not mention one question, something which relates to Iran in court, anything you do may be given in advance, okay?
42:29Okay.
42:30Cool.
42:31So I am arrested, yes?
42:32Yes.
42:33At least you get to beat the queues this way.
42:38He wasn't expecting at all.
42:39We found in total 250,000 pounds of cock.
42:51You must know that Iqbal, Bashir, they've already been remanded, and yet he's still come back.
42:57I'm thinking the threats were worse where he was and where he's come to now.
43:01Okay, so what do you need an encrypted phone for?
43:12VIP Boss Luton.
43:14Okay.
43:15He's got your name stored in his conventional phone for the Encro Chrissy.
43:21So there's quite a clear link.
43:23Do you know anyone called Cameron Bashir?
43:26No, I think.
43:27So this is a conversation on Encro devices in the wholesale supply of illegal street drugs out of the UK to different countries within Europe.
43:36In a pecking order, you are high up the chain.
43:40No problem.
43:41We've got the wrong person, this is your ideal time to tell us.
43:46He didn't talk in an interview, but I'm certain that he must know who Uncle is.
43:54This job has been hugely eye-opening, revealing the full scale of the challenge of tackling organised crime.
44:03Hello, how are we?
44:05In the timeframe that we had, it was impossible for us to work through all of the handles, but we will keep going.
44:12To prevent you leaving the country, I'm going to remand you here.
44:26I fully accept that the networks will move on to new technologies.
44:31I'm not blind to that at all.
44:33When we do crack the next network, which we will, then we will come after them again and we will keep doing so.
44:45Did you travel back to England with anyone?
44:49Has anyone threatened you to take part in a conspiracy to supply Class A drugs?
44:56No.
44:59You could walk past Uncle in the street and not even know.
45:03There will be people out there right now who know his real identity.
45:08And I would appeal to them to come forward with information.
45:11You could walk past Uncle in the multiple places.
45:12After a fight
45:31You could walk past Uncle.
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