Johnny Morrissey might have been affiliated with the Kinahan crime family, but he wasn't going to let that stop him from diversifying his business portfolio. The obvious choice? A vodka brand.
EncroChat’s product wasn’t explicitly designed for criminals. But communication supposedly free from the possibility of surveillance is, unsurprisingly, attractive to organized crime. European investigators managed to hack into it in 2020. Now, they’re having trouble making their arrests stick.
With a lax attitude to shell companies and regulation as well as its lack of extradition treaties, the UAE became home to the big drug lords, those known as the “super cartel.”
