It was in September last year that area police officers in Lidköping noticed two men and decided to check them.
– They had cash on them and couldn’t really explain how it happened, said Ester Omarsdottir, chamber prosecutor, earlier to SVT Halland.
Sentenced to deportation
The two men are now sentenced, despite their denial, to prison for two years and six months. They are also sentenced to deportation with a ban on returning to Sweden.
The men were arrested and an investigation into suspected money laundering was initially initiated, but the suspicions were later changed.
Theft tour in southern Sweden
Through surveillance images from other investigations, the police were able to link the men to thefts of wallets and bank cards in Halland, Skåne, Blekinge, Småland and Västergötland.
The men are sentenced, among other things, for three cases of aggravated theft, 26 cases of aggravated fraud and 14 cases of aggravated arbitrariness.