The EncroChat hack has given the police unprecedented access to the secrets of organised crime. Nearly four years on from the hack, the detective who led the Met’s EncroChat investigation, DCI Driss Hayoukane, reveals what the police have learnt about OCGs which they didn’t know before.
Presenter Mobeen Azhar hears about the impact of the EncroChat operation from Driss and from the National Crime Agency. There have been thousands of arrests, 200 threats to life averted and tonnes of drugs seized. But has taking out the kingpins cut crime?
Catching the Kingpins is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Sounds.
Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Series Producer: Andrew Hosken
Editor and Executive Producer: Innes Bowen
Sound designer: Peregrine Andrews
Assistant Commissioner: Lorraine Okuefuna
Commissioning Editor: Louise Kattenhorn
Production Executive: Laura Jordan-Rowell
Creative Director for BBC Studios: Georgia Moseley
Unit Manager: Lucy Bannister
Production manager: Elaina Boateng
Production coordinator: Juliette Harvey
Development Executive: Anya Saunders
Editorial Policy Advice: Su Pennington
Legal advice: Hashim Mude and Andrew Downey
Consulting editor: Steve Boulton
Studio recording: Aaron Cazzola
Thanks also to Beena Khetani, Adele Humbert, Hugh Levinson, Ali Rezakhani, Rhiannon Cobb, and Jack Griffith. Show less