A 'fantastic father' was exposed as an international drug dealer who traded in guns and helped funnel vast amounts of dirty money abroad. Sidaquet Sadiq, 38, was the latest criminal to be unmasked after the law enforcement hacking of a secretive phone network favoured by organised crime gangs.
Sadiq was known as 'Mayweather.TMT' within EncroChat and was involved in supplying at least 25 kilos of class A drugs, heroin and cocaine, within a six week period, Manchester Crown Court heard. He was found to have been speaking about a potential cocaine deal with an EncroChat user based in Columbia, prosecutors said.
Sadiq, from Salford, also laundered at least £1.6 million in criminal cash, helping dirty money to be sent to Europe or the Middle East, and discussed the sale of guns within the encrypted network. He has now been jailed for 18-and-a-half years.
