The state chief prosecutor’s bridge has revealed that co-operation between the Special Prosecutor of Kosovo and Swedish authorities has resulted in the arrest of the person with the initials A.G. and confiscating alleged assets were acquired through criminal activities.
According to the announcement, the case has already received a judicial epilogue in Sweden and represents the first case when Swedish authorities have managed to seize property outside their territorial jurisdiction.
The Office for the Return of Assets, which operates within the framework of the State Chief Office, in co-operation with Swedish authorities, will take further steps to execute the final decision on property confiscated in Kosovo.
Meanwhile, according to the Swedish authorities’ communiqué, the person had been arrested in the Gotebogu region, under suspicion of trafficking narcotics to enormous proportions and heavy money laundering.
Controls and raids have been conducted in both states during the operation. Real estate, cash and a vehicle have been seized in Kosovo, while valuables and digital materials have been provided to serve in the continuation of investigations and analysis of financial flows.
Swedish State Prosecutor Daniel Larson, from the Swedish Authority for Economic Crimes, has praised co-operation with the Special Prosecutor of Kosovo, stressing its importance in realising the allegations.
Co-operation with the Special Prosecutor of Kosovo is characterised by high professionalism and full readiness for co-operation, which has been a prerequisite for sequencing real estate, cash and an vehicle in this case, Larson has declared.
He has also stressed that Swedish authorities are using new legislation to enable the seizure of assets located even outside Sweden’s territory.
Even from Swedish police, it has been stressed that the purpose of the operation has been to crack down on organised crime and confiscat benefits realised through criminal activities, regardless of where they are located.
Crime should not be rewarded and does not matter if someone tries to hide the benefits of criminal activities abroad. We’ll find them, and our aim is to seizure them, has declared Thomas Steinberg Jansson, chief of police in the western district of Sweden.
Investigations are led by state prosecutors Daniel Larson, by the Swedish Authority for Economic Crimes, and Hékan Larsson, by the National Unit for Combating International and Organised Crime ( RIO, near the Swedish Prosecutor.
The State Chief Prosecutor’s Office has estimated that this case testifies to the importance of international judicial co-operation in combating criminality and confiscating assets benefited by criminal acts, regardless of where they are located.
Source Layer: RTKLive