Millions of dollars in cash, gold bullion, clocks, watches, jewellery, designer furniture and properties.
The defendants in the giant information about ‘Operation Greed’ rolled in money and luxury.
Such is the allegation in a statement on the confiscation, as police have served for the 17 accused men and three companies.
in Addition to prison sentences of up to 12 years, police require, that the defendants are being stripped financially if they are found guilty by the court.
Greed-the case that started Wednesday at the court in Glostrup, is that the treasury has been excluded tax and vat for approximately 296 million dkk.
The defendants have, according to the police, have used fake bills for the 532 million dkk. in a giant money laundering operation, where vat and tax is washed out of the black work in the demolition, cleaning and transport.
All the defendants refuse to commit.
the Extra Leaf has gained an insight into the police’s claim about the confiscation of the values, which the police have been found in the defendants.
Police require 88 million dkk. confiscated cash and deposits on various accounts.
On the list there is also the confiscation of the equity in the 27 properties – without having to set precisely the amount of home equity. However, the properties reported to have a value of over 60 million dkk.
in Addition, requires the police confiscation of bullion in the 20 – 250 gram, cars, architect-designed furniture, B&O equipment, jewelry and watches such as Rolex and Breitling.
the Court has just extended the remand of five of the defendants, which now has been jailed since police swooped in October 2017.
Three pakistani brothers are among the hovedtiltalte. In the one, 45 years old, police require over 26 million dkk. confiscated along with the equity in the two properties on the island of Zealand and designer furniture.
The 45-year-old got in 2016, according to DR a restructuring of the debt, which erased his debt of 114,5 million dkk.
At another of the brothers, 44, is required among other things, equity in the 23 properties confiscated. He owns, for example, four condos in the same property in Helsinge.
The many scams-million is, according to the indictment washed white through several small exchange bureaus and raised cash. With the 61-year-old holder of a bill of exchange-the agencies, the police have seized the Danish kroner and the currency of the 8.5 million kr., required to be confiscated, together with, among others, 15 gold bars.
In a safe-deposit box at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, who belonged to the 61-year-old, police found euro in cash for good 2.7 million. kr. and on the bill of exchange’s account in værdihåndteringsfirmaet Loomis was seized 1.6 million. kr.
The defendants have almost all of the foreign background, most of the pakistani, but only five of them are not Danish nationals, and the required shown.
Four of the defendants, namely, the alleged masterminds, according to public prosecutor be sentenced to up to 12 years in prison. It requires that the normal maximum sentence for scams and fraud to eight years in prison, will be increased by 50 percent.
It can be done with a particular section of the penal code, when there are extremely aggravating circumstances.
Charge: How was the fraud
5664 fake invoices are issued in a network of in respect to companies with the front men as owners and directors. Stråmændene had no idea that they featured in the companies ‘ management.
the Money is earned on the undeclared work within the demolition, cleaning and transportation, but the companies have not accounted for tax, vat and the am-contribution.
the Money is washed white through several small exchange bureaus and raised cash.
the Case is dismantled by the local police’s Special Investigation into the East’.
The 71-page indictment describes, for example, how a 61-year-old owner of a few bureaux de change shall be considered as responsible for the exchange of button 352 million dkk. from January 2015 to February 2017.
The 44-year-old proprietor of a real estate company and his company are alleged to have made five properties available for fraud so that fraud companies and their fictitious owners and directors got the addresses of the properties.
the Police struck against the network in October 2017, and 40 addresses were searched and 32 properties were seized.
Five of the 17 defendants are still in custody. The prosecution believes they must sit behind bars until the verdict, which the first is expected in January 2020.
There is preliminary allocated 77 days in court for the case, but it may not be enough.
the Trial is so big, that it has had to be moved from the Copenhagen city Court to the Court in Glostrup, which has a large court room F4, in order to accommodate all the defendants and defenders. Interpreters translates to Lithuanian, urdu and Arabic.
the Three prosecutors are put on the case, which reaches approximately 60,000 pages of documents.
Police have used rumaflytninger, telephone intercepts and video surveillance through a half a year and have bl.a. total 3000 hours of rumaflytninger.
the Court lifted the navneforbuddene in the case because of the gravity and the public interest, but it has the defenders in the ditch to the Østre Landsret.
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