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A 30-year-old Swedish girl was arrested in Arlanda on orders from Europol and the Spanish police.
She is suspected in a worldwide tangle of funding fraud, linked to the Russian mafia.
The girl, together with quite a few well-known key folks, is alleged to have swindled greater than seven billion crowns – she has now been extradited to Spain.
Europol and Eurojust got here out on Friday and stated they’d a global operation. Coordinated crackdowns have been carried out throughout Europe and round 400 officers from authorities in eleven totally different international locations took half within the large police operation, in response to a press launch.
The in depth investigation was primarily led by France, Germany and Spain – however in response to Europol, a complete of 27 international locations are concerned within the operation. 9 folks have been arrested in reference to the mass strikes.
Now TV4 Nyheterna can reveal {that a} 30-year-old Swedish girl and her boyfriend, who’s a international citizen and 45 years outdated, have been arrested on Monday at Arlanda airport in reference to the identical operation.
– I didn’t perceive in the event that they have been on their approach, or had returned from Saudi Arabia. The girl emigrated from Sweden and has an deal with in Spain and the person doesn’t seem in Sweden, says Michael Hansson, prosecutor of the Nationwide Unit towards Worldwide and Organized Crime.
The person and the girl have been needed internationally within the case of Europol and at the moment are arrested by the Swedish police. On Wednesday, the district courtroom determined to ship each again.
– It’s Spain that requested its supply. A transmission course of has been initiated. We’re ready to get an arrest warrant in a language we settle for.
Quickly in police studies everywhere in the world
The cross-border investigation has been ongoing since 2022 and considerations an enormous tangle of so-called ponzi scams, a type of funding fraud. The infamous rip-off firm JuicyFields is behind the large pictures.
Based on authorities, JuicyFields was launched in 2020 and marketed as investing in medical hashish, one thing you’ll be able to put money into.
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Daniel Johansson, who’s working with Swedish lawyer Lars Oluffson within the Juicy Fields case, alleges the next on Linked In
To this point no particulars have been launched concerning the identification of the girl arrested by the Swedish police
Within the following report through My Information desk dated 19 April Johansson writes
We are able to verify at this level that this girl was Fanny Skoglund, one of many co-founders of Bare Media.
https://www.mynewsdesk.com/prio-startup/information/juicy-fields-scam-arrests-fanny-skoglund-from-naked-media-group-arrested-482783
On Monday, April 15, Swedish media revealed a narrative claiming {that a} Swedish girl and her boyfriend have been arrested at Stockholm airport. We are able to verify at this level that this girl was Fanny Skoglund, one of many co-founders of Bare Media.
That is vital for a number of causes, together with the truth that she is the primary facilitator to be rounded up by the police. We have now an extended record of others.
The arrests come on the primary working day after Europol revealed its first notification that a global spherical of arrests had simply taken place, together with one of many essential leaders of the rip-off ring, Sergei Berenzin (his actual title Russian) within the Dominican Republic.
Who’s Bare Media?
The agency is a female-led PR consultancy that has entered the hashish trade, selling Juicy Fields at conferences and on-line. They have been employed within the spring of 2020 and labored actively for the corporate till just a few months earlier than the enterprise was closed two years later and all traders misplaced their cash. This consists of being current on the further occasion in Barcelona in March 2022. After the rip-off has fallen, they’re showing in any respect the “in” hashish conferences throughout Europe for the remainder of the yr – leaving and questions on why and the way they’re. might have labored for what was clearly an enormous rip-off, from the beginning.
Since then, they’ve been very seen on the hashish convention circuit in Europe. To this point that's it.
What’s a fraud facilitator? The position of Fanny Skoglund
There are two sorts of culprits in this sort of fraud. The criminals who prepare dinner it and work immediately for the corporate. After which the ring of consultants and different firms across the fraud which are employed and used to create an air of legitimacy that may usually be troublesome to problem. Particularly if there may be sufficient cash thrown round.
Within the Juicy Fields case, there are two sorts of facilitators recognized by the litigation group led by Lars Olofsson. The primary are massive firms, resembling social media firms and banks, that are alleged to have compliance checks in place to stop a fraud like Juicy Fields.
The second group of facilitators was the group of people and corporations employed immediately by the corporate, or who gave them a move on the compliance entrance within the hashish trade. Skoglund falls into the second class. The litigation group has proof that it not solely produced its advertising and marketing plan, however actively improved and developed the fraud in a number of crucial methods. This included serving to to construct a very false picture of the never-existing enterprise to optimize gross sales pitches geared toward traders.
Subsequently, Bare Media has been on Olofsson's record of facilitators for the reason that fall of 2022.
“With out Fanny Skoglund's extremely expert advertising and marketing and branding, Juicy Fields would by no means have reached the dimensions it did,” says Lars Olofsson concerning the advertising and marketing entrepreneur.
What was Juicy Fields?
Juicy Fields was a Ponzi scheme that claimed to make folks wealthy by investing within the medical hashish trade in Europe. It was most lively between April 2020 and July 2022. The police at this level is now keen to substantiate a minimal variety of 186,000 victims and low ball losses of about 645 million euros.
Authorized Proceedings In opposition to Different Facilitators
Lars Olofsson proceeded on his class motion towards Fb AB. The authorized course of is now in Stockholm, Sweden and Nacka District Courtroom.
Fanny Skoglund's Linked In
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fannyskoglund123/?originalSubdomain=ae
Bare Media Group Linked In
https://www.linkedin.com/firm/naked-media-group/about/
Bare Media Group
https://www.nakedmediagroup.com/about
