A man in his 40s is accused of having participated in thefts of furniture worth a total of more than 1,370,000 kroner.
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It appears in an indictment from Oslo District Court.
The man was arrested last summer, when the police went into action against a larger environment in Oslo which for a long time had participated in extensive thefts of expensive designer furniture.
After the same action, the artist became Cezinando earlier this spring sentenced to 120 days community service for participating in five different theft raids. The artist was not one of those arrested in the action, and it is not known when he was charged in the case.
Cezinando has subsequently expressed remorseand was convicted in a confession case after pleading guilty to all the thefts.
The man who was arrested and who is now charged, has previously been connected to the environment that was involved in the Nokas robbery in 2004.
Admits partial criminal guilt
When the accusation against the man in his 40s became known, his defender Øystein Storrvik stated that he admits partial criminal guilt.
– He still admits partial criminal guilt. He denies something and accepts something, says Storrvik to VG.
According to Storrvik, he does not plead guilty to complicity in the theft from Fineart. Here he is accused of, together with two others, having stolen an art rug by Bjarne Melgaard, worth 120,000 kroner.
In addition, he denies the extent of the theft of any of the other items. Storrvik does not state which specific thefts this applies to.
–Serious thefts
Most of the thefts he is charged with fall under section 321 of the Penal Code, which deals with aggravated theft.
“The theft is considered serious because special emphasis is placed on the fact that it had a significant value, had a professional character, or was for other reasons of a particularly dangerous or socially harmful nature,” the indictment states.
According to the indictment, the man is said to have participated in the thefts of the following:
- Two Fritz Hansen leather benches to a total value of approx. 200,000 kroner from the vestibule in Oslo Concert Hall
- Four Carl Hansen CH33 chairs to a total value of approx. NOK 18,750 from Verket Interiør AS
- A Fritz Hansen Svanen chair, and a Fritz Hansen «Egget» armchair with footstool, for a total of 239,232 kroner from A. Huseby & Co AS
- Four armchairs designed by Erik Jørgensen of the type OX-chair, to a total value of approx. 350,000 kroner
- Eight design chairs, a miniature chair and one or more lamps to a total value of approx. NOK 400,000 from Vitra Scandinavia AS
- Several Louis Poulsen PH lampshades with associated parts for a total of 27,929 kroner
- A red Vitra chair from McDonald’s Alnabru
- A Balenciaga Shopping Tote Bag worth NOK 7,815 from the Balenciaga store
- A wine bottle of the type Grand Cin de CH. Latour for 10,337 kroner from Vinmonopolet
- An art rug by Bjarne Melgaard to a value of approx. 120,000 kroner. They also tried to take an art rug by Bjarne Melgaard of the same value from the wall in the gallery of Fineart AS. They only got one of the blankets when they were discovered by an employee
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