Runar Sögaard, 56, has found himself in a new storm and is currently charged with money laundering, something that News24 have written more about.
This is how Runar Sögaard burned SEK 72,000 from the scam – in 11 days
In June last year, elderly people were conned by a phone scammer who was after their money.
The fraudster deceived the elderly that he was calling from the health center and would help them book an appointment. He asked the elderly to log into their online banking, which they did. In this way, the man could transfer money from their account, writes Expressen.
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You were cheated of 130,000 kroner
Among other things, a woman in Stockholm was cheated of SEK 20,000 and a man in Dalarna got away with SEK 130,000.
The police could see that an 84-year-old woman living in Västerås had a total of SEK 250,000 transferred to her account, and then SEK 72,000 should have been transferred to Runar Sögaard.
Now both Runar Sögaard and the 84-year-old woman stand accused. The woman has been convicted of a similar crime recently, but denies the crime.
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The 84-year-old woman about the relationship with Sögaard
In an interrogation with the police, the woman stated that she borrowed 20,000 kroner from Runar Sögaard, who she believes is a friend of her dead husband, when she wanted to buy an electric bicycle.
She also says that she did not check who the money came from, as she trusted him.
“[Kvinnan] says she doesn’t know who put them in and what she did with them. [Hon] says that the only thing she can think of is this Runar,” it says in the transcript of the interrogation.
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When asked why the woman brought more than SEK 72,000 to Runar Sögaard, she replies that someone, who is said to have been in prison with Sögaard, called her and said that she received money that was not hers.
“[Kvinnan] think it happened so that he asked her to pass on the money. [Hon] not at all sure about this.”
Sögaard says he has never heard of the woman
Runar Sögaard denies that he knows the 84-year-old woman.
– Runar does not know the co-suspect, the 84-year-old woman. He does not know who she is and has never heard of her, says his defense lawyer Mark Safaryan to The Express.
Sögaard swiped the woman 20,000 kroner
The investigation shows that Sögaard made two transfers of SEK 10,000 each to the 84-year-old woman, i.e. SEK 20,000 in total. This is said to have happened just a few weeks before the phone scams were carried out.
However, Sögaard says in the interrogation that he test-swished the woman for a friend, to see that it worked.
Read more about Runar Sögaard here.