“We have had more than 600 police officers in action all over Denmark,” says police inspector Torben Svarrer at the national police unit NSK during a press conference.
The arrested are believed to have functioned as so-called money gatekeepers, which means that they have lent their bank accounts to criminals who in this way laundered money defrauded from elderly Danes. In at least 400 cases, the defrauded have lost their entire fortune, according to Svarrer.
“It is a reprehensible form of crime,” he says.
Several of those arrested have been released on bail, while others will face detention proceedings.