According to prosecutor Martin Drugge, the operation aimed to detain persons and secure evidence. ' The investigation concerns the car insurance company Santana, which is suspected of sending out fake invoices to numerous Swedish car owners. ' Several of the companies involved have had addresses in a stairwell in Karlskoga, where there were no offices or other operations, just a mailbox with multiple company names on it.
These companies can all be linked to a group of entrepreneurs that Ekot investigated during the fall of last year. They have long been involved in projects with crypto platforms, real estate, and environmental technology, which have repeatedly crashed in bankruptcies and criminal suspicions. In recent months, they have tried to install a man who now lives in a nursing home after a severe stroke as a representative for Santana.
On Tuesday morning, we carried out a police operation in several places in Karlskoga, aimed at detaining the persons and securing evidence.
Drugge commented, 'If one has such a reduced health condition that one can barely manage one's daily life on one's own, then I see that one has little to do in a company's board. ' All involved companies and persons have in various contexts denied all accusations of crimes and fraud.
We are talking hundreds of thousands of shipments that have gone out, several million kronor have come into the company, and those who have paid in are over a hundred people.