On 9 March 2021 around 16:00 [[Belgian Police|Belgian police]] carried out about 200 raids, arrested 48 people and seized €1.2 million in cash along with 17117 tonnes of [[cocaine]].<ref name=bt-17-tonnes>{{Cite news|title=17 tonnes of cocaine and €1.2 million seized in major police operation in Belgium|url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/159092/17-tonnes-of-cocaine-and-e1-2-million-seized-in-major-drug-bust-in-belgium-sky-ecc-encrypted-software-organised-crime-the-netherlands/|last=Chini|first=Maïthé|date=9 March 2021|access-date=10 March 2021|work=The Brussels Times}}</ref> Those arrested included lawyers and members of the [[Hells Angels]],<ref name=bt-cracking/> serving police officers, an employee of the public prosecutor's office, civil servants, tax officials and hospital administrators suspected of providing information to the gangs, as well as people suspected of gang-related violence.<ref name=boffey>{{Cite news |title=Colombia's cartels target Europe with cocaine, corruption and torture |last=Boffey |first=Daniel |newspaper=The Observer |date=11 April 2021 |access-date=11 April 2021 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/11/colombias-cartels-target-europe-with-cocaine-corruption-and-torture}}</ref>
Belgian [[Federal prosecutor's office (Belgium)|federal prosecutor]] {{Ill|Frédéric Van Leeuw|nl}} said that "The operation was concentrated on taking down the Sky ECC infrastructure, dismantling the distribution network and seizing the criminal assets of the distributors" and "as many Sky ECC devices as possible" were seized from identified users.<ref name=bt-17-tonnes/> The federal prosecutor said about the encryption that "We succeeded. We will send Sky ECC the account number of the federal police".<ref name=bt-cracking/>
