"A court in Belgium has adjourned a high-profile criminal case after defence lawyers raised questions about the integrity of intercept data obtained by police in a hacking operation against the Sky ECC encrypted phone network. The Antwerp Regional Court adjourned the hearing into multiple defendants accused of drug trafficking offences last week, after defence lawyers found that electronic intercept evidence files had been changed without explanation during the course of the trial."
"Defence lawyers in the trial in Antwerp claim they belatedly discovered the electronic evidence files used in the case from Sky ECC had been adjusted, and that they have been provided with no explanation for the changes. Justus Reisinger, a defence lawyer in the case, said that rules introduced in Belgium that prevent lawyers from seeing clients held in detention from bringing computer equipment into meetings meant the changes in the prosecution evidence had gone unnoticed until last week."
A Belgian court adjourned a high-profile drug-trafficking trial after defence lawyers identified unexplained alterations in intercepted electronic evidence from the Sky ECC encrypted phone network. The case targets alleged kingpin Nordin El Hajjioui and multiple defendants accused of importing narcotics through Antwerp. Prosecution evidence depends on messages obtained after police in France, the Netherlands and Belgium hacked Sky ECC servers in 2020, gaining real-time access to messages. Large-scale raids involving some 1,600 officers followed, seizing assets linked to drugs, money laundering and bribery. Defence counsel discovered modifications to the electronic files, including added intercepted lines, and received no explanation for the changes.
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