The extortion attempts against Kuylenstierna, previously CEO of the listed investment company Fastator, began in 2023 and resulted, among other things, in an arson attack against another executive at the company in November of the same year.
In the district court, Falk was sentenced to prison for one year and ten months for aiding and abetting attempted gross extortion. The court of appeal increases the sentence to four years and ten months, and convicts him as the perpetrator instead of an accomplice.
The court considers it proven that Falk participated in the extortion attempt to a greater extent than the district court and that his involvement was central to the crime.
"The fact that the court of appeal has sentenced the man to such a long prison sentence is because he has had a central role in an extortion attempt that has been deemed very serious," says court of appeal judge David Löfgren in a press release.
Several other people have previously been convicted of involvement in the extortion attempts.
Falk is also detained, suspected of four extremely serious narcotics offenses, in a web that, according to the prosecutor, involves 2.5 tons of cocaine. According to the suspicions, it concerns crimes committed in 2020 in, among other places, Surinam, Spain, Colombia, and Portugal.
53-year-old Jonas Falk has previously been convicted of, among other things, several bank robberies.
He was also identified as the main man in a worldwide cocaine network that smuggled narcotics for hundreds of millions of kronor in the 2010s.
After that investigation, he was sentenced in the district court to 18 years in prison, but was acquitted a year later in the court of appeal.
