Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Crackdown on suspected IS-financiers in Sweden – Today’s News

Crackdown on suspected IS-financiers in Sweden – Today's News

     
     
     
     
     
 


 
     

         
 

     
 
 
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Economic Crimes Bureau struck on Tuesday to the four people who were arrested for the crime. The suspicion is that the money from tax evasion should have gone to the Islamic state, ice, experience DN.


                     
                 

         
         

             
                 
                  
                 

                     

 

Crimes Bureau struck on Tuesday to the four people who were arrested for the crime. The suspicion is that the money from tax evasion should have gone to the Islamic state, ice, experience DN.

A major crackdown was conducted against several persons suspected of crime linked to Syria and the Islamic State, said sources DN.

Four people, three men and a woman, were arrested early in the morning at different addresses in both southern and northern Stockholm.

 
        
             
     
     
 

Torbjörn Rosén, Acting Police Head of the Economic Crimes Bureau, confirmed the raid, but say they have poor access to the file and refer to the Press Secretary Katinka Wall.

She wants to first did not answer any questions, saying that there is no information to give “the moment”, but after DN.se published data sent Authority issued a press release.

The crime covers according to the press mailing operations in six companies. In these companies are also suspicions of serious tax evasion. The raid was conducted to “preserve evidence in one of the Authority’s preliminary investigations concerning the use of illegal labor, and money laundering.”

– Some further details of the investigation can be due to the confidentiality of investigations not be said Katinka Wall.

investigators are prosecutor Ingela Ohlén the Economic Crimes Bureau.
On Tuesday morning arrested four people, three men and a woman between 31 and 50 years old. They are all living in different Stockholm Suburbs. Two Swedish citizens, and two are citizens of Uzbekistan.

They are suspected of including serious tax and gross accounting offense, and for complicity in these crimes.

– I know why you are calling, but I refer to the confidentiality of judicial investigations, says Jan CA Andersson, one of the detainees public defenders to DN.

– It has begun questioning. We have not issued any setting in my principal is suspected, says Ghita Hadding Wiberg, although she defense lawyer for one of the suspects.

According to sources to DN work prosecutor after thesis that people have sent profits from tax delinquency to Syria, are likely Islamic state.

– I am 100 percent sure that it is the prosecutor’s suspicion. If they are convicted or not, I can not comment on, says a source DN.

The only one of the six companies mentioned in EBM’s request is a cleaning company in Stockholm, which last year was forced to pay back more than 160 000 to the Tax Agency as a result of unduly paid rutavdrag.

The company appealed to the Administrative Court, but lost. DN have searched cleaning company, but received no answer.

The Security Service is familiar with the matter.

– We know it, but it’s investigation secrecy and questions referred to the Economic Crimes Bureau, said press secretary Frederick Milder DN.

Were you involved in the raid?

– I can not dwell on the matter.

a report from 2014 compiled by the 16 agencies that dealt with the financing of terrorism, noted that terrorist financing is likely to take place in Sweden. However, it is unusual for that type of offense goes to court.

According to the National Council for Crime, well, it happened just seven times during the decade from 2004 to 2014. In only one case was handed down a conviction.

– Crimes Bureau, in collaboration with the police today made a crackdown in the Stockholm area. However, there is confidentiality of preliminary investigation of the case and I therefore have no more comments, says Minister for Justice and Minister for Migration and Morgan Johansson DN.


 

                     

                
         

         
         
     
 
         
         
      

    
 
 
         
     

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