The seizures are motivated by the fact that the vehicles are considered to have a high value in relation to the owners' incomes. Now it will be tested whether they should be declared forfeited or not, the police write on their website.
The new law means that a person who, for example, has large amounts of cash, a property, watches or other luxury items but lacks income that is proportional to the property, and cannot explain where it comes from, can lose it.
The person does not need to be suspected or convicted of a specific crime and the property does not need to be linked to a specific crime to be seized and forfeited.
According to the law, the property shall be forfeited, which means that ownership is transferred to the state, if it is clearly more likely that it originates from a crime than that it does not.
"The courts will show us where the limit goes and create precedents for independent forfeiture. The police and prosecutors are in the starting blocks with many cases," said Torbjörn Rosén, national coordinator against criminal economy at Noa, in a press release earlier in the week.
