‘Dealers were making £70k a day when they plotted murder on Encrochat’

Two drug barons who were making over £70,000 a day were caught texting each other about their plan to murder a rival, a court heard. James Harding, 34, was arrested after law enforcement agencies across Europe cracked the EncroChat messaging system favoured by criminals in 2020. He was allegedly found to have arranged the hit of an unknown individual in the drugs world alongside his second-in-command Jayes Kharouti, 39. The two men were centrally involved in a ‘significant and profitable…