Every year, criminals manage to wash billions by expanding money from Sweden.
– A destination that has been described by criminals as a money laundering center is Istanbul, but also Dubai. There you can get the money into the system, invest in real estate and otherwise wash them, says SVT journalist Diamant Salihu in “The week with Camilla and Leif GW”.
Underground Banking
Salihu has previously interviewed a criminal who describes how to use so -called exchangers to wash money: people without a criminal record for either the money physically via Arlanda and send them through a transaction system or invest them.
When the encrypted chats, such as Encrochat, were cracked in the early 2020s, the police gained transparency in the prevalence of international money laundering networks, so-called Underground Banking.
Solveig Fors, operations expert at the National Operations Department (NOA), thinks that the police should change their work to focus more on money flows.
– Those who sit at the top of the pyramid do not put their fingers in the drug bag. They have a footmen that allows the money to be generated at the top and converted into luxury resources, into real estate and so on. We have to start following money, start working asset -oriented, ”she says.
Inspects suspected traveler
Today, travelers are allowed to extract € 10,000 from Sweden without reporting it.
– We find a lot of people who are just below the limit. They travel several times a month but have nevertheless not committed any customs duty, as it is not subject to declaration, says customs inspector. Adam Hübinette.
See him inspect a suspected traveler in the clip above – or whole The week with Camilla and Leif GW on SVT Play After 19.00.