Nick Leather Behind National Crime Agency Encrochat Drama

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winner Nick Leather-based is heading contained in the Nationwide Crime Company (NCA) and the “most profitable legislation enforcement operation in UK historical past” for his newest TV venture.

Leather-based has tied with Temper producer Bonafide Movies on the as-yet-untitled collection, which we’re instructed is in early-stage dialog with potential patrons. Tom Dunbar is producing.

Leather-based’s drama will reveal  the inside workings of the NCA by way of a narrative that focuses on the 2020 infiltration of the encrypted phone-system EncroChat, and the way it gave the company a once-in-a-lifetime alternative to decimate the felony underworld. With a ticking clock, a secret to maintain hidden and within the face of unprecedented challenges, the NCA finally delivered ‘Operation Venetic’, which Leather-based and the artistic crew described because the “most profitable legislation enforcement operation in UK historical past.” There have been greater than 3,400 arrests to date together with nearly 13,300 years of mixed sentencing, and it the operation continues to be ongoing.

Leather-based has been given what Bonafide described as “extraordinary entry” to the NCA and is talking with the officers who have been central to EncroChat’s takedown.

“Spending time throughout the NCA, digging into this landmark operation and discovering out what and who is true at its coronary heart, has been an absolute delight,” mentioned Leather-based. “This is without doubt one of the nice success tales of recent policing – how the very best of British got here collectively to convey down the worst. And I can’t wait to inform it.”

Leather-based received a BAFTA for BBC drama Murdered for Being Totally different, whereas different credit embody Nightsleeper, Mom’s Day and The Management Room. Bonafide is greatest recognized for Temper, the BAFTA-winning BBC musical drama collection that made a star of Nicôle Lecky. Margery Bone’s BBC Studios-backed indie can be making a function about Shakespeare’s First Folio from Conclave author Peter Straughan and a Peter Moffat-penned adaptation of Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist.