a Total of 41 persons were on trial in the largest bedrägerihärvan where e-identification and telephone is huvudverktygen. The charges serious fraud and penningtvättsbrott at 25 occasions. A handful of the defendants were born around the 2000s, but most are older.
all in all, they should have come over around 3.5 million during an in just over two months, mainly from people born in the 40’s or 50’s.
to the prison, damages, fines, probation or suspended sentence. In the skein there are three people who are deemed to be principals, and the most driving force in the business. They have all been in custody since they were arrested in april, earlier in the year.
Two of them are sentenced to imprisonment for two years and eleven months, and the third to two and a half years in prison. Crime justifies the really three years in prison, according to the district court, but because they have been detained with restrictions in the eight months shortened the penalties.
in Addition to these sentenced three more people to short prison sentences.
had called for longer prison terms than those given in the judgment, with reference to the victims ‘ advanced age and the large sums, fraudsters came across. Despite the fact it looks he is still positive on the judgment.
– It is good that the court has accepted our view of this type of crime. It is a problem in the banking world when it is this easy to commit such fraud, which, moreover, often targeted against the elderly, ” says Pär Andersson.
the Approach is similar at all times. Fraudsters have used the more common method where the over the phone purports to be a banker who wants to help the victim.
they have caused their victims to create a new mobile bank id to the fraudsters and then be able to transfer money to themselves via the payment service Swish or bank transfer. Other times they have misled the victim to his bank token giving them access to the telephone bank, to do the same thing. In some cases they have been able to get over more than 200,000 Swedish kronor at the same time.
the Fraud in this skein has been committed between February and april 2018, when the perpetrators were arrested and several detained. But there are many more who are still dealing with the same type of crime.
from fraud with this approach, amounts in sek 240 million. Since October of 2017, the police have received over 5.500 notifications about scams, and completed fraud, where any type of e-id is the primary tool. Pär Andersson does not believe that this is the last league that are judged.
– There is no doubt that it is increasing and it will probably continue. Criminal moves to where it is easily accessible to the money, and this is much easier than having to expose yourself in order to make robberies or other thefts, ” he says.
the scale of punishment for serious fraud ranging from six months imprisonment to six years.
