Postnordanställd prosecuted – suspected of stealing packages worth sek 2.5 million

After all, the more packages disappeared from a band at a postal terminal in Malmö, sweden in autumn, booby-trapped so Its a trap. It focused on an employee several times seen download the package at the specific band.

– He was arrested by the measures Postnord took. It was essential that we would be able to detain him, says public prosecutor Magnus Pettersson.

towards the man and allowed him to drive a van that had security cameras. It was discovered then that the man neglected to scan the package, which he then left at a place in Malmö.

He was arrested and has been detained for several months, suspected of larceny. On Thursday came the prosecution in Malmö district court. According to the indictment, stole the man, 43 packages, worth a total of just over 2.5 million. It is about mobile phones and other electronics. The home of the man was found over 200,000 Swedish kronor in cash.

He acknowledged, to some extent, but argued at the same time he carried out the thefts because of threats from criminals.

– There is information that he should have been threatened, but the data have shifted over time, as far as I understand it. I have not been able to strength any crime around the person which he claims to have threatened him, " says Magnus Pettersson.

a man for aggravated handling of stolen goods. The man is connected according to the prosecutor via Facebook-conversations with the employee at Postnord.

He is suspected of having purchased this estate, and there are circumstances in the investigation that suggest that the goods then were sold on.

He denies the crime and claims to not be the person who used the Facebook account.

A large part of the 43 the packages, the police have not managed to track down.

– part of goods were found with the suspected of the theft and a part of the alleged rough handling of stolen goods, " says Magnus Pettersson.