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Arrest warrant issued for Sky Global boss Jean-Francois Eap

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 ...

The indictment alleges that Sky Global installs sophisticated encryption software in cellphones that allow users to communicate with each other in a closed…