A businesswoman has pleaded guilty to drug offences after being arrested at Manchester Airport. Faye Dunn was arrested by police at the airport earlier this year as part of Operation Venetic, the ongoing investigation into the Encrochat messaging network.
Dunn, 38, is the former director of a number of Merseyside businesses, including a restaurant and a popular children's play centre.
The mum-of-two, who is well known in the Huyton area of Liverpool, was charged last month with conspiracy to supply cannabis between December 2019 and June 2020, as well as two money laundering charges, reports The Echo.
She pleaded guilty today - Tuesday - to the conspiracy charge as well as one count of concealing criminal property. Another charge of acquiring criminal property was not proceeded with by prosecutors.
In a statement issued after her arrest, Merseyside Police confirmed the charges related to the police investigation into EncroChat phones, Operation Venetic.
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That investigation aims to bring dealers who used the heavily encrypted messaging service to justice. Once thought to be impenetrable, the system was hacked in 2020, with many criminals put behind bars since.
A spokesperson said at the time: "A woman from Huyton has been charged with drug offences as part of Operation Venetic. On Monday 13 June officers arrested a woman at Manchester Airport on suspicion of conspiracy to supply Class B drugs.
"Faye Dunn, 38 years of Kingsway Parade, Kingsway has been charged with conspiracy to supply a Class B drug and money laundering on Tuesday 14 June."
Dunn, of Walpole Avenue, Whiston, will be sentenced in September.
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