The league was revealed in SVT's Mission: Investigation, which, with the help of material from an unknown hacker who had accessed the fraudsters' computers, could show how pensioners across the country were swindled out of large sums of money.
All the material was also sent to the police, and in the spring of 2024, four people, three young men and a woman, were arrested, suspected of having participated in the fraud.
According to the indictment filed at the beginning of 2025, a total of 73 people were swindled out of over 12 million kronor. Seven others were subjected to attempted fraud. Prosecutor Anton Larsson Forsberg has said that the league may have involved as many as 20 people.
When the trial concluded at the Eskilstuna District Court after nearly three months of proceedings, Larsson Forsberg demanded prison sentences of several years for all four.
For the two identified as the main perpetrators in the case, a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old man, he demanded prison sentences of seven years and nine months.
Then I demanded somewhere between four and six years for the other two, he says.
All four denied the crime when the trial began in January, but the 21-year-old man has since acknowledged large parts of it during the trial, says Anton Larsson Forsberg.
He has acknowledged being involved in this. He has not acknowledged everything, but parts.
The verdict in the case is expected to be announced at the end of May, according to the Eskilstuna District Court.
