The league's two main men, 28 and 36 years old, are sentenced to prison for 4 years and 11 months and 2 years and 4 months, respectively, by Södertörn District Court. According to the court, it is an aggravating circumstance that they had the role of organizers and that the role meant little risk of detection.
"It has affected the length of the prison sentence,” says the court's chairman Sofia Jungstedt in a comment.
Three more people are sentenced to prison, the rest receive conditional sentences, and a minor receives youth supervision.
25 serious frauds, six burglary thefts, and ten attempts at serious fraud were included in the indictment that was brought against eleven people in the spring. One is acquitted, but the rest are convicted of various forms of involvement.
Electronics chains
The frauds took place from March to September last year, with a total of 36 victims between 83 and 93 years old.
The plan usually involved calling up mainly single people and claiming that incorrect purchases had been made at, for example, Elgiganten. The scammers then went to the people's homes and pretended to be from the bank or the police. When they left, they took with them bank cards and valuables such as gold jewelry and wedding rings.
According to prosecutor Marie Rodhe, the frauds were committed "in a nearly business-like form by several perpetrators with clear areas of responsibility", and the profits from the crimes varied from a few thousand to 80,000 kronor per occasion.
Great impact
Lawyer Juni Livion represents several of the plaintiffs and says that her clients have been strongly affected by what they have been exposed to.
The crimes have damaged the trust in other people and created great insecurity in their own homes. Many who are exposed unfortunately blame themselves, but the responsibility lies, of course, with the perpetrators who exploit a vulnerable group in society, she says.
Several of the victims are awarded damages.
Ekot has reported that several of those now convicted had access to Tele2's customer register through their jobs at a telephone sales company. It is not clear that it was through the customer register that they chose their victims, but over 600 people who the company's salespeople searched for have reported being exposed to telephone fraud. Tele2 has terminated its cooperation with the company.
