

It can stick. Here is your reasonable plausible explanation: What if they maliciously wiped the phone clean after unlocking it just to frame him of something, after finding the data on the phone wasn’t justifying the libel or the trouble?
Assuming that they actually didn’t have any specific demonstrable reason to suspect him of terrorist activities, maybe someone was just hating him for no rational reason, or just wanted to make an example of him.



Wiping doesn’t leave time stamps?