A 'reliable foot soldier' was caught hauling more than 155 kilos of cocaine - working under the Encrochat handle 'GingerSpeaker'. Courier Matthew Clarke, 43, is the latest criminal to be hauled before Manchester’s courts following the law enforcement hack of the encrypted communications network.
He was ordered to pick up large amounts of the class A drug on behalf of an organised crime group based in Ashton-under-Lyne. Over a three month period, Clarke supplied 155 kilos of cocaine and transferred £100,000 of criminal cash.
Messages to people higher up the chain were discovered when European law enforcement officials cracked the Encrochat network and handed the data to UK cops.
