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Do I sense some Brexit here? The BBC article mentions "The NCA worked with forces across Europe on the UK's "biggest and most significant" law enforcement operation.", while the Joint Eurojust-Europol press release [1] doesn't mention the Brits at all, but calls it a Dutch / French operation.

[1]: http://www.eurojust.europa.eu/press/PressReleases/Pages/2020...

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It was a joint operation lead by France/Netherlands but a very large number of the suspects were in the UK. This is a BBC article and focuses on the UK arrests.

For what it’s worth, in an earlier statement to Vice, a company representative claimed the attacks appeared to originate from the UK.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/5dz9qx/encrochat-hack...

From Cheltenham perhaps?

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