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He didn’t use encrypted everything. He had a public telegram group chat in which he stored a lot of his material. Which, as many people in the comments on the article pointed out, is not encrypted, but is presented by telegram as if it is. That’s likely how they caught him.
To be clear, it’s encrypted*.
* If you enable it
AFAIK chat contents are stored unencrypted on the server.