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Old 09-16-2019, 03:52 PM   #22
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https://twitter.com/user/status/1173697405105135617


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the arrest of a senior rcmp official was the fruit of a 2018 international police operation that targeted the encrypted communications service phantom secure, sources have told global news.


An outfit that sold untraceable smartphones to criminals so they could evade police, phantom secure was dismantled last year by authorities in the u.s., canada, australia, hong kong and thailand.


The arrest of phantom secure ceo vincent ramos in washington state in march 2018 led police to sensitive rcmp information that had been offered up for sale, according to the sources.


While ramos did not know the identity of the person allegedly brokering the rcmp information, canadian investigators traced it to a list of suspects who had access to it, the sources said.

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ut sources told global news the investigation began with the phantom secure case and the arrest of ramos, 41, a canadian serving a 108-month sentence in a texas prison.
Phantom secure bought smartphones, stripped them of their functions and installed an encrypted email system so the phones could only communicate with each other, according to the fbi.


The phones had 10,000 to 20,000 users, many of them “top-level” organized crime leaders, said police, who claimed the phones were used to co-ordinate drug trafficking, murders and money-laundering.
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