Now, first, the prosecutors and then the defense attorneys must tell the court how they assess the vast amount of information that has been extracted from police reports of more than 60,000 pages.
Senior plaintiff Annika Jensen talks about a top-down business.
– In many ways it has many similarities with a normal company, where people have their very special tasks. And it is a company with branches in Copenhagen and in Malmö, she says.
She also appoints the handful of men who, according to her, made up the management. As in other companies, there were regular discussions about money, shows an interception of one of the defendants’ BMW. And the bottom line of an account in December 2018 found on a phone shows a profit of 1.9 million euros, she says.
15 men have been indicted. The 13 have an Albanian background. It was a network rooted in family relationships, according to the other senior plaintiff, Lasse Biehl.
The profit was sent to Tetovo in northern Macedonia. Later, they entered into investments in Albania for the benefit of the defendants in both Denmark and Albania, he sums up.
Earlier in the process, a bus driver was convicted of driving a total of DKK 30 million to northern Macedonia.
The last two defendants were a kind of financiers. From souvenir shops, they arranged for the conversion of millions of kroner into euros, the prosecution claims. And even though they did not physically have anything to do with drugs, they must be convicted of contributing to the big criminal business, it sounds from Lasse Biehl.
At Thursday’s court hearing, information about the defendants’ personal circumstances is reviewed. One of them is a university graduate in Albania in law and economics. It turned into a 15-year career in the Albanian Ministry of Environment and Defense.
This man has been extradited from the Netherlands to Denmark. His defender believes that in that case, there can be no judgment at all for quantities in tonnes. The original extradition concerned “only” complicity in the smuggling of a total of 76 kilos, it is said.
Another defendant has been a professional football player for several years, it turns out. What are your future plans, his defender asks.
– To be acquitted and get out and have a normal life, he says.
Everyone denies guilt. Almost all have been remanded in custody since the summer of 2019.
Source: The Nordic Page