40-year-old washed away over eight millions black dollars white

Money laundering of almost 8.2 million dollars and attempts of money laundering of well 640.000 crowns have Friday in the court in Lyngby cost a 40-year-old man and a half years in prison.

It informs the public Prosecutor for Special Economic and International Crime - in everyday speech, the fraud squad - in a press release.

the Case is the first in a larger sagskompleks, where there is indicted a number of companies and persons for money laundering for the more than 100 million dollars.

a Few weeks before a Danish company began to transfer large sums of money to foreign companies, was the 40-year-old registered as a director of the company.

He asked his NemID available, so the company could transfer the money to abroad. Three months later, when more than eight million dollars was moved out of the country, he stepped out of the company again.

There were no employees in the company, and that were not reported on the vat to the tax authorities.

- This judgment sends a very clear signal to all cogs in a machine, laundering, will be punished. It is a serious warning to others who would do the same, says Per Fiig, who is acting as attorney general for the fraud squad.

the Case pulls the threads to a number of other companies, and four of them have already been indicted. In all, think the fraud squad, there is talk about money laundering for the more than 100 million dollars, and a strip of litigation is on the way.

the Company, which were used for money laundering, and which is now in liquidation, was fined 4.100.000 dollars and got confiscated for good 640.000 dkk

in Addition to fængselsstraffen was the 40-year-old deprived of the right to participate in the management of a commercial enterprise without manual personally in five years.

He is now considering whether he will appeal against the verdict to the Eastern high Court.