It was the Swedish Tax Agency that first began to examine the woman's affairs.
That, together with signals that the police's intelligence service picked up in the Boliden and Burträsk area, caused the Ecocrime Authority to start an investigation.
The investigation has concerned around 50 real estate transactions in 2016 and 2017. The properties were bought in and in some cases sold again shortly afterwards.
- It can probably be said to be unusual that so many properties are bought up in such a short time in this type of locality, says Niklas Jeppsson, prosecutor at the Ecocrime Authority.
Sentenced to 3 years and six months in prison
The woman in her 50s is convicted of serious accounting offences, serious tax offenses and serious business money laundering.
- I am satisfied that the verdict is close to my claim of four years, I don't want to say more at the moment, says prosecutor Niklas Jeppsson.
Due to the risk of flight, the woman has been in custody awaiting a sentence of three years and six months in prison.
She will remain in custody until the verdict becomes final.
The broker couple
The broker who handled the paperwork in the housing deals is convicted of 14 cases of serious economic money laundering and his wife for accounting offences.
They are both sentenced to a suspended sentence and daily fines.
All have denied wrongdoing.
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