The lawyers “The Prince” and “The King” are suspected of having leaked information to gang criminals.
Now one of them is accused of having helped plan a murder – together with the infamous network Death Patrol.
– I have worked for 34 years as a police officer and have not seen anything like it, says Lars Bröms, one of investigators at Silverrävarna.
In connection with the French police cracking down on the encrypted communication service Encrochat, they found chats between criminals and two other people who went by the names “The King” and “The Prince”.
The police would direct their suspicions at two lawyers in the Stockholm area who are known for defending gang criminals in criminal cases.
The investigation has been conducted at the regional investigation unit by two retired criminal investigators, the so-called “Silver Wolves”.
Previously, the two lawyers have been excluded from the Swedish Bar Association.
Prosecution has now been brought against the two lawyers, for a number of different crimes.
“Just as many gang criminals”
Lars Ström, group manager for Silvervargarna, believes that it is serious that lawyers help gang criminals.
– We have lawyers who run their cases and help push for this even though people are in custody. It is a frightening development. They are as gang criminals as those who hold weapons. They are the ones who make sure that this can continue, says Lars Bröms.
– It’s extremely serious.
According to the indictment, one of the lawyers, the so-called “King”, helped one of the leaders of the criminal network Death Patrol to plan a murder.
During the autumn of 2019, the lawyer must have informed a criminal suspect that a certain person would be killed and that a collection of money would take place.
“NN has at an unknown time and in an unknown place, together and in consultation with other people, decided that XX, with the nickname” XX “, will be killed,” it says in the indictment that has been received by Södertörn District Court.
Leaked information
The lawyer is also suspected of protecting criminals, serious crime and aiding and abetting a particularly serious drug crime.
– He is the one who is clearly the most driving, says Lars Bröms.
The other lawyer, “The Prince”, is charged with protecting criminals and aiding and abetting a particularly serious drug offense.
According to the indictment, both lawyers must have provided information to the Spring Village Network’s leader Chihab Lamouri.
Lamouri was sentenced in the Court of Appeal to 17 years and ten months in prison for crimes in the great Vårby scandal.
Excluded from the Bar Association
Both lawyers were expelled from the Swedish Bar Association last year. According to the community’s disciplinary committee, it was proven that they had both leaked information.
In the decision now announced, the board has excluded the lawyers from the Swedish Bar Association and ordered that the decision be implemented immediately. The decision is unanimous “, announced the Swedish Bar Association last year.
Prosecutors at Södertörn’s Public Prosecutor’s Office wrote the following in connection with reporting the two men to the Bar Association’s disciplinary committee.
“Overall, it is not possible to free oneself from the image of cybercriminals in a suit,” the prosecutor wrote in connection with the report.
The two lawyers have denied any wrongdoing.