At the end of 2021, things were looking good for the Morrissey family. Johnny Morrissey and his wife Nicola had just launched their vodka brand, Nero Vodka, and scored an interview with a Spanish luxury magazine. The piece featured shots of Nicola sporting a red ball gown behind the wheel
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.”
