Mattias Bengtsson was a serious proprietor and key individual within the firm that was used to blow the Pensions Authority’s cash within the Allra scandal.
The defendants had been sentenced to multi-year sentences within the Court docket of Attraction. Within the meantime, Mattias Bengtsson’s suspected crimes, aggravated cash laundering and aggravated bribery, had been statute-barred. However the Swedish Pensions Authority’s compensation declare of 168 million, which he and the others within the mess are obliged to pay based on the court docket, stays. It’s only a part of Bengtsson’s debt mountain. The bailiff is chasing him for money owed of over SEK 245 million, however has no authority to grab belongings overseas.
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Mattias Bengtsson’s property possession in Dubai has thus far been unknown to Swedish authorities. In reference to a world needed man, he was arrested on the spot in 2018, however launched with out clarification.
Residence on this planet’s tallest constructing
On the man-made island of Palm Jumeriah are lengthy rows of newly constructed properties subsequent to the Persian Gulf, with 24-hour safety and personal seashores. Mattias Bengtsson has had an condominium of 127 sq. meters right here. Mission evaluation’s mapping reveals that it was just lately offered for SEK 8.3 million. However Bengtsson continues to be registered because the proprietor of an condominium on this planet’s tallest constructing – the Burj Khalifa.
– It’s unsatisfactory which you can disguise legal change in a foreign country in such a easy method, says Chamber prosecutor Thomas Hertz, who tried in useless to have Bengtsson extradited to Sweden.
The bailiff can request assist from different international locations’ counterparts to grab belongings, supplied there may be an settlement between the international locations. There’s at the moment no such factor between Sweden and the United Arab Emirates. The pension authority has consulted attorneys energetic within the dictatorship concerning the potentialities of accessing Mattias Bengtsson’s belongings in Dubai, however at current such a course of is judged to be fruitless.
