Defense attorneys tried to invalidate Encrochat's evidence by claiming that it had been collected in violation of international agreements, but judges ruled that prosecutors could use it in the trial.
Gang network leader Chihab Lamouri was sentenced to 17 years and 10 months in prison for attempted murder, aggravated assault and general destruction.
[5] Prominent cases against Vårbynätverket included the brief kidnapping in April 2020 of a famous Swedish rap artist Nils Kurt Erik Einar Grönberg known as Einár.
[11] The lawyer Amir Amdouni, defense attorney for the gang, was fired from his post as public defender for one of the murder suspects after disclosing classified information covered by preliminary investigation secrecy (Swedish: förundersökningssekretess).
[12] According to the Huddinge police in Sweden, the operation against Vårbynätverket and arrest of many key figures in it has led to a new generation of criminal gangs beginning to fill the void in the drug trade that the network left behind.