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Stolen jewellery, watches and cameras worth more than three million have been seized by the police. The stolen goods belong to at least 30 crime victims.
It was in connection with the arrest of three people for aggravated weapons offenses and aggravated robbery in the autumn that the stolen goods were discovered in an apartment in Stockholm.
The property consists of jewellery, watches, handbags and cameras and has now been linked to 30 reports of theft.
– It is a very large seizure. The apartment where we raided was filled with stolen goods from floor to ceiling, says Mats Eriksson, police spokesperson.
More plaintiffs
– We are now tracing the stolen goods and looking for more plaintiffs. We are looking at old theft reports. With those descriptions, we can then identify these objects, says Mats Eriksson.
Now the large number of objects that were seized is to be investigated. It is expected to take time as the police property inspectors are in the initial stages of the work.
According to the police, the main man, who is behind large parts of the crime, must have lived under a false identity as a Lithuanian citizen in Sweden, which meant that he was able to stay in Sweden for a longer time.
Network in Eastern Europe
“But through cooperation with authorities in Lithuania, we have been able to prove that he stayed in the country on false grounds,” says Ulf Djurberg, head of preliminary investigations at the border police unit in the Stockholm region, in a press release.
According to the police, the principal must have had connections to a network in Eastern Europe, which engages in serious organized crime, such as drug crimes, trafficking and theft.
“Our thesis is that the principal has acted as an accountant in the criminal network, the one who is accountable and responsible for, among other things, the cash books,” says Ulf Djurberg.