The company was based in the Netherlands as were most of its customers, but most of the company servers were based in Canada.[1][2] Danny Manupassa, the company owner, was arrested in 2016 amid allegations that the phones were largely used by criminals.[1][2] The company had about 19,000 users.[1][2]
The phones sold for €1,500 each and used company servers for traffic.[1][2] The devices had been altered so they could not make calls or use the Internet normally.[1][2]
Canadian authorities seized the servers and passed messages to Dutch authorities.[3] The latter had managed to decrypt 3.6 million messages by 2017, apparently because the key to the messages had been stored on the same servers the messages were on.[3] These messages have led to arrests, including that of Naoufal Fassih.[3] Fassih has been convicted of one charge of murder and one of attempted murder in relation to the murder of Ali Motamed.[4]