On Wednesday last week, four men in their twenties were arrested Charged Charged with gross fraud or complicity in gross fraud.
– They were arrested in Oslo, in connection with the same place, says police lawyer Christian Stenberg to VG.
Thus, 25 people were arrested:
- End of May: Three people in Finland
- Tuesday, June 4: 17 people in Finland
- Thursday 11 July: 19 years in Oslo
- Wednesday 2 October: Four people in Oslo
The police in Norway have concluded a cooperation agreement with Finland and Denmark regarding the investigation of this case eurojust In The Hague, Netherlands.
– We are investigating whether a call center should be set up in Finland targeting elderly people in Norway. Steinberg says that some of those detained in Finland are Norwegian.
-Does anyone want to be extradited to Norway?
– We did not decide that.
The police prosecutor would not comment on whether any of those detained in Finland have been released or remain in custody. It is not known how they responded to these accusations.
“the pirate”
Stenberg doesn't have an overview of how many people there are now Insulted In this matter. Hence, they do not have a complete overview of the total amount people are said to have been defrauded.
– In May/June, police authorities in Finland assumed the amount to be 1 million euros.
At today's exchange rate, this equates to more than 11 million Norwegian kroner.
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Through calls from the call center, the affected party must be persuaded to give up their personal information, including their username and BankID, which is then used to empty their account.
They allegedly posed as police and bank employees in front of customers who were allegedly being “hacked”, saving them from greater losses by moving their money to a safe place, the ruling said.
-We know that there are a lot of people who have been insulted in Norway. The police lawyer says there are a large number of people who have been contacted through this network.
The four men arrested last week were on Friday detained For two weeks.
My client refuses to participate in the case, says lawyer Oystein Storvik, who is defending one of the accused.
Lawyer Hans Marius Findelburg Haugestoga says his client was undergoing a short interrogation, but he did not want to delve into what the accused explained.
– He does not admit guilt.
Lawyer Peter Mandt says his client also does not admit guilt.
– He was not allowed to see the documents related to the case, so I do not wish to comment on the case at the present time.
Lawyer Marius Oscar Dietrichsson stated that his client denies criminal guilt and does not wish to comment on the case further.
in general
One of the arrest warrants stated that a number of electronic devices had been seized and should be secured and reviewed.
It is noted that the number of phones seized exceeds the number of people found at the scene when the police carried out the campaign on October 2. These phones need to be linked to the right people and reviewed, and that will take some time.
– Phones are believed to contain information that can shed light on the distribution of roles and the circle of people.
The court wrote that, in its opinion, there was a large network of people committing fraud.
– Despite the arrests, the scams continued.
The defender of the 19-year-old, who was arrested in Oslo in July, does not want to comment on the case.
The 19-year-old has been remanded in custody, but there are still defendants at large, the detention order said.
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