Catching the Kingpins: 6. Final Reckoning

Gangster

BBC

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	I'm John Ronson and I'm an invisible enemy.
0:05.0	That changed people psychologically.
0:08.0	Words can be dangerous if you don't know the context.
0:12.0	We were told to stay at home.
0:15.0	We lived with an invisible enemy,
0:17.0	with only the internet for company.
0:19.0	That changed people psychologically.
0:21.0	I'm John Ronson, and I'll be unerthing the roots of the
0:24.4	culture wars that engulfed us then and still do now.
0:29.2	The award-winning podcast, Things Fell Apart, returns returns listen on BBC sounds
0:36.5	this incident has shocked people in Liverpool the fact that a nine-year-old has lost her life in
0:41.8	27 years of reporting,
0:43.4	this is the most shocking sequence of events
0:45.2	I've ever heard.
0:46.2	Ordinary members of the public
0:47.8	have been caught up in the cross fire of top-level organized crime. Shootingings aren't that common in the UK,
0:55.0	but Liverpool has had a spate of them.
0:58.0	She was shot dead at a pub on Christmas Eve,
1:00.0	26-year-old Al Edwards.
1:03.0	Crime journalist Scott Hesketh has seen more and more people in his home city wake up to
1:09.4	what's behind them, the drug trade.
1:12.0	There was a scale of thought in Liverpool and cities across the UK that you know
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