Rerun: The Assassination of Martin Kok
CYBER
VICE
4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The tale started with an encrypted phone company, Morroccan gangsters, the Scottish mafia, and a blogger. It ended with an assassination outside of a sex club in Amsterdam.
Last week, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox broke the news that MPC—a Scottish company that hawked special encrypted phones that could evade police surveillance—had been connected to the murder of crime blogger Martin Kok. Kok was a former criminal himself who had previously served a jail sentence for two murders.
Kok’s crime blogging had gotten him on the wrong side of the Gillespie brothers, two Scots who are still operating a highly sophisticated drug and gun running operation connected to South American cartels, as well as Morroccan gangster associates. They allegedly hatched a successful plan to kill him in December 2016.
On this week’s episode of CYBER, Cox goes into detail about how this criminal syndicate carried out Kok's murder, and what it means for crime in 2019 when the mafia isn’t buying encrypted phones, but making them for itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:10.7 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:13.1 | I know this. |
| 0:15.1 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
| 0:17.3 | It tells her everything. |
| 0:19.1 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.6 | The Eagle One, the package is being delivered. |
| 0:24.6 | So since the cyber team is hard at work and the content mines for you, dear listener, making some interesting stuff for your beautiful ears, |
| 0:33.6 | we thought we run an episode of yesteryear. |
| 0:36.6 | It involves the Scottish mafia, cartels, some sketchy encrypted phones, and a sex club in Amsterdam. |
| 0:44.1 | It's the tale of an assassination of a blogger. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm Ben Maku, and you're listening to Cyber. |
| 0:57.4 | So, Joseph, a blogger who blogs about crime, |
| 1:02.2 | ends up dead in front of an Amsterdam sex club. |
| 1:06.0 | How did this happen? |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah, so this guy's called Martin Koch. |
| 1:09.6 | He's a two-time convicted murderer. |
| 1:13.3 | He's a murder himself. Yeah, he's a murderer himself. He's a serious criminal. He served time in the |
| 1:19.0 | Netherlands. And then when he was released, he started his own website called Butterfly Crime, |
| 1:24.3 | where, you know, it could be described as journalism, it could be blogging, |
| 1:28.7 | it could be doxing, but he basically wrote about the Moroccan mafia, various other criminal |
| 1:34.1 | groups, because of course with his background, he has pretty unique access to this world. |
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