Three judges in a major criminal case involving drug trafficking and money laundering will be replaced. They unintentionally saw French state secrets because they were in a procedural document and had not been painted over. It is probably information about the hack around the secret messaging service EncroChat.
As a result, the judges have more knowledge than the Public Prosecution Service and the defence, can be read in the decision. And since it concerns state secrets, the information cannot yet be provided to the Public Prosecution Service and the suspects. The only solution is therefore to replace the entire session combination, the court concludes.
Torture containers
It concerns the case 26Sartell, a major investigation into international cocaine trafficking and money laundering. The main suspect in the investigation is 49-year-old Rotterdammer Roger P. alias Piet Costa. He would also be responsible for the construction of the so-called torture containers in North Brabant. Several suspects in the 26Sartell case are also suspects in the case surrounding the torture complex that was found in Wouwse Plantage last summer.
The documents probably contained classified information about techniques used in the EncroChat-hack from last year. The Dutch and French police then cracked an encrypted telephone network and collected millions of messages that criminals had sent each other.
NOS on 3 previously explained how big the loot from the EncroChat hack was:
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