Cracking the cartels: global police face legal backlash over tactics
aw enforcement sources have described it as an embarrassment of riches, a treasure trove that led to raids across Europe and in Dubai this week that were said to have brought down a super-cartel controlling a third of the European cocaine trade.
A blizzard of arrests followed, starting with last year’s raids in Belgium and the Netherlands at the level of the street lieutenants and A legal motion, brimming with internal emails and documents, filed by lawyers acting for Sky Global as part of an attempt to reclaim 116 internet domains that it claims were seized unlawfully by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, argues that lines are definitively being crossed that should worry us all.
An email contained within the file suggests that at one stage in 2018 Sky Global offered free samples of the phones to Ontario provincial police. The company also knew, of course, that such a piece of technology could be useful to criminals. They insist, however, that they took every measure available to reduce the risk.
“What has happened here is the equivalent of the government seizing Apple.com because drug dealers use iPhone encryption features to communicate with each other,” Sky Global’s lawyers wrote. The dramatic scenes of recent days, with photographs emerging of once cocky men, allegedly responsible for no end of suffering, being led away from their pads in Marbella and Dubai, may be seen to justify law enforcement’s means.
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