Vancouver man accused in cryptophone crackdown appeals to French court for bail 

• Briefly: Thomas Herdman of Vancouver has spent the last 38 months in a jail near Paris without trial. 

• Herdman distributed Sky Global’s modified smartphones, which worked on an encrypted network called Sky ECC. Police from Belgium, France and Netherlands cracked the company’s French server. Authorities in the U.S. charged Herdman and Sky Global CEO Jean-Francois Eap with racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in March 2021. 

• Next: Herdman denies wrongdoing. His lawyer, Paul Sin-Chan, is appealing a judge’s denial of bail for Herdman. He had proposed house arrest, electronic monitoring and a 250,000-euro bail. READ MORE BELOW.