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CEO of Encrypted Chat Platform Indicted for Aiding Organised Criminals The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday announced an indictment against Jean-Francois Eap, the CEO of encrypted messaging company Sky Global, and an associate for wilfully participating in a criminal enterprise to help international drug traffickers avoid law enforcement. Eap (also known as "888888") and Thomas Herdman, a former high-level distributor of Sky Global devices, have been charged with a conspiracy to violate the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), according to warrants issu...

Mon, Mar 15th 2021 10:59am — Tim Cushing The DOJ has indicted another company for supposedly making it easier for criminals to elude law enforcement. The true target, though, isn't the company whose principals have been indicted, but encryption itself. A couple of years ago the DOJ decided to bring RICO charges against Phantom Secure, a cellphone provider that catered to the criminal element with "uncrackable" phones/messaging services built on existing Blackberry hardware/software. The FBI approached Phantom Secure, asking for an encryption backdoor that would allow it to snoop on its cust...

Print The CEO of a Canadian communications firm has been indicted in San Diego on charges of facilitating drug trafficking and money laundering around the world through encrypted cellphones. The indictment comes on the heels of a landmark prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego against Phantom Secure, another encrypted communications provider based out of Canada and favored by criminal organizations globally. The latest charges, returned by a federal grand jury Friday, target Jean-Francois Eap, CEO of Sky Global, as well as Thomas Herdman, a former high-level distributor of ...

Get Permission A advertisement for the now defunct Phantom Secure, which law enforcement officials say sold encryption services to criminal gangs Assets worth $4 million have been seized by authorities in Singapore from the former CEO of Phantom Secure, a now-defunct encrypted telecommunications services provider that offered services to transnational organized criminal syndicates. The confiscated funds are now being transferred to the U.S., according to the Justice Department. Canada-based Phantom Secure's chief executive, Vincent Ramos, and four of his associates were indicted in 2018 on c...

0 Engagements Close to US$4 million (S$5.3 million) in illicit funds linked to a group that provided encrypted telecommunications devices and network services used by transnational organised criminal syndicates have been seized in Singapore. A total of US$3,971,468.40 was seized from four bank accounts here by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) of the Singapore Police Force and US authorities, said the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday. PHANTOM SECURE The funds belonged to Phantom Secure, an encrypted telecommunications network used by transnational organised criminal s...