90 tons of drugs worth 4.5 billion euros seized
During the year since the encrypted SKY ECC network was hacked into Belgian prosecutors have been able to launch 276 new investigations. 888 suspects have been identified.
118 investigations that had already started benefitted from information gleaned from messages that could be decrypted.
Detectives seized over 90 tons of drugs with a street value of 4.5 billion euros as well as cash and other goods worth nearly 60 million euros.