Man from Drammen sentenced for gross financial adultery

He has also been convicted of gross money laundering of approximately NOK 1.2 million and gross accounting violations.

Tuesday 7 May at 15:27

A man from Drammen has been sentenced in Buskerud District Court to 2 years and 5 months’ unconditional imprisonment and loss of rights.

The man has been convicted of gross financial adulteryEconomic adultery is neglecting another’s affairs that a person manages or supervises, or acting against the other’s interests, with intent to gain or to cause harm. Source: SNL of approximately NOK eight million against two limited companies he controlled. Two other men have each received a guilty verdict for money laundering in the same case complex earlier this spring.

Økokrim writes in a press release.

The main man in the case has been convicted for unlawfully transferring large sums of money to himself from two limited companies, making significant cash withdrawals and transferring money to other people who then withdrew millions in cash.

“Money Mule”

The money laundering occurred by the convict issuing fictitious invoices after ordering from others, and by this he made it possible for the person who ordered the invoices to evade taxes and fees.

The people who have helped with the money laundering have been convicted of acting as “money mule”Money mules are people who receive money from one person and pass it on to another, either digitally or as cash, against payment..

These men allowed themselves to be used to launder funds for the main man. Earlier this spring, they were sentenced to respectively 75 days’ unconditional imprisonment and 6 months’ conditional imprisonment, with significant deductions for confession and case processing time.

– The punishments they have received show that there are consequences if you allow yourself to be used. The money received will also be confiscated, says police attorney Einar Salvesen Lieungh in a press release.

The case was reported by the Swedish Tax Agency. It was first investigated in the Sør-East police district, before Økokrim took over the investigation in the spring of 22.

The judgment is not final.