Four suspects were arrested by Dutch police on suspicion of money laundering. They are also suspected of selling custom encrypted BlackBerry and Android smartphones to criminals.

The smartphones that they are suspected of selling were "PGPsafe" with the secure PGP-encrypted network to "possible criminal end users."

PGP, which stands for Pretty Good Privacy, is an open source end-to-end encryption standard which would allow criminals to cryptographically sign emails, documents, files, or entire disk partitions in order to protect them from being spied on.

The selling of the phones is not a criminal offence, but Dutch police have discovered evidence that the phones have been used by criminals who are involved in assassinations, drug trafficking, money laundering, armed robbery, and attempted murder.

Ennetcom servers were seized and police were able to decrypt some files and identify some of the criminals. Dutch police arrested four men and seized a house worth 600,000 Euros, a "mansion" with an estimated value of 1.6 million Euros, around 2 Million Euros in cash, thirteen vehicles, and hundreds of cell phones from phone brand "PGPsafe."

PGPsafe has over 40,000 registered users, sells for between € 1,200 and € 1,500 each and were sold primarily for cash on public highways.

Source: The Hacker News