Villa linked to family networks seized by police

A man and a woman, both at the age of 30, have been arrested by prosecutors after being arrested on Monday morning suspected of serious money laundering.

The suspicion is based on the fact that a property, a private villa in a municipality near Gothenburg and a plot, is suspected to have been purchased with money that comes from criminal activities.

The two arrested « Can be linked to serious organized crime and family -based criminal networks in Gothenburg, » writes the police, noting that it is one of several similar investigations that are ongoing with the goal of hitting hard on the network’s economy.

– This job has been going on since last year and is done with the help of financial investigators from the department for serious crimes, says Johan Sjöstrand, TF Local Police Area Manager in Northeast Gothenburg.

It is there, with Angered as a base, as one of Gothenburg’s most established family -based networks of the police is considered to exert strong control in the local community.

The current investigation must have gained momentum when police seized a clock and cash from one of the arrested, after which other goods and the property in question have been linked to it.

On the question from DN Johan Sjöstrand believes that this may be the first case where a property is coated with a attachment with the support of the so -called forfeiture legislation which came into force in November last year.

This means that, for example, a person who has large amounts of cash, large bank balances or luxury items should get rid of them if he or she does not have income « that is proportionate to the property and cannot explain where it comes from. »