Shutdown of Sky Global

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Sky Global was a communications network and service provider founded in 2008 in Vancouver, Canada. It developed an encrypted messaging platform called Sky ECC with 70,000 users operating through three servers of the OVHcloud company in Roubaix, France. A significant share of the system's users were international crime organizations involved in drug trafficking, and Sky Global's management was suspected of collusion. In a series of police raids against criminal organizations in several countries in early 2021, a part of Sky Global's infrastructure in Western Europe was dismantled, and US Department of Justice issued an arrest warrant against the company's CEO Jean-François Eap. On March 19, 2021, the company apparently shut down the operations after BlackBerry cut it off from its services. Its website has been seized by the FBI.

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