He is simply called “Two Times”, after a character in the gangster film Goodfellas.
Anthony Norman (49) is a helicopter pilot and has been an officer in the Swedish armed forces, with five years of service behind him.
He is the founder of a number of companies, not without controversy. And travel blog on say.
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To make a long story short
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We discovered the name Anthony Norman both when we dug in a big Ecocrime caseand when we mapped the network of one of the supposed leaders of Foxtrot.
Dagbladet can today reveal Anthony Norman’s connections to several of Scandinavia’s heaviest criminals. The network extends to Norway, London, Ireland and Dubai. And handles enormous values.
Norman himself has not been caught for much more than a couple of speeding tickets.
But now he is in trouble on several fronts.
In trouble
In an article in Capital in early February, Anthony Norman’s name was mentioned:
There, Norman is central to what is claimed to be a billion-dollar fraud centered around Ecoteq: a small Norwegian oil company. Dagbladet has access to the same documentation. It appears from a so-called “temporary injunction» to the Oslo district court, and appears credible.
Norman is now in custody in Sweden, accused of extensive economic crime. His defender, Isak Åberg, states that he denies criminal guilt.
Our investigations start in the winter of 2022 with an encrypted message, sent from the phone to a Norwegian-Lithuanian man:
The drug plane
“The weather is bad in Western Norway”
In itself, it is not news. But for the two Swedes who will fly a five-seater Beechcraft Duke aircraft from Denmark to Norway, the message is important.
The small plane is not the machine you want to sit in when the Westland storms are raging.
Especially not if you have 222 kilograms of cannabis in your luggage
LOYALTY: Police spies photographed the drug plane when it landed. Photo: From Swedish police documents Show more
Norsk-Lithuania advises the Swedes to land the plane at Jarlsberg airport outside Tønsberg, it appears in Norwegian and Swedish court papers.
After landing, the three men load the drug into the Lithuanian’s car.
Detectives from the South-East police district are hiding.
When the Lithuanian stops at Notodden to fill up with gas, they strike. Both the Swedes, the Lithuanian and several other people are arrested and later convicted – several also for smuggling 50 kilos of cocaine to Great Britain.
The case is getting a lot of attention. Not least because one of the people involved used to be called Tommy Zethraeus. He shot and killed four people, and injured another 20, in a horrific massacre at Sturecompagniet in Stockholm on 4 December 1994.
Because he and two friends were refused entry.
SHOOT AROUND HIMSELF: Tommy Zethraeus killed four and injured over 20 at the Sturecompagniet nightclub in Stockholm. Photo: Scan-Foto Show more
Five billion in play
It is one of the two pilots, designated and convicted as the main man in the case, who procured the smuggling plane.
He did so with Anthony Norman’s help, according to police and court documents that Dagbladet has reviewed.
Such was the payment
The seller of the plane received SEK 948,578. The payment took place in two installments:
- First, NOK 250,000 from a company account in Handelsbanken – belonging to the company Sunfite AB.
- The remaining payment of 67,500 euros went via the company Dragon Global Solutions Ltd in England.
These two companies have one name in common:
Anthony Norman.
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Anthony Norman himself states on LinkedIn that he was a director of Dragon Global Solutions Ltd (DGS) – the company that handled the majority of the payment for the drug plane. In the British company register, it appears that Norman was also the largest owner in the company that last owned DGS.
In questioning with the Swedish police, he stated that DGS had a banking license in Lithuania, and primarily dealt with cryptocurrency.
In the same questioning, Norman distanced himself from the case, saying that he himself had reported the one transaction to British money laundering authorities
Dagbladet has presented everything that comes to light in this case for Norman’s lawyer, Isak Åberg. He says:
– The only thing I can say is that he denies guilt for the charges he is in custody for. I can’t answer the rest – but have conveyed to my client that you want contact.
Dagbladet has also sent a letter to the prison where Norman is in custody. So far no answer.
SPEEDING TICKET: Anthony Norman has so far not been sentenced for major offenses in Sweden. Here he received a speeding ticket for a marginal speed limit. Photo: From Swedish police documents Show more
Photographed in hiding
A couple of weeks before the drug flight in 2022, Swedish police were on the lookout when four men entered a hair salon in Stockholm.
One of the men didn’t seem to need a clip:
It was the man formerly known as Tommy Zethraeus.
He was bald.
In the company was a 49-year-old businessman who, in questioning, confirmed that he knew Tommy Zethraeus.
AT THE HAIRDRESSER: Swedish police followed when the man formerly named Tommy Zethraeus (TV) met a 49-year-old businessman involved in the drug case, in a hairdresser’s salon in Stockholm. Photo: From Swedish police documents Show more
The 49-year-old further explained that he was a colleague and partner of Anthony Norman – and involved in the payment of the drug plane. For questions of detail he referred to Antony Norman.
Norman denied in questioning that the 49-year-old was his partner, but explained that the man was a customer with a client account at Dragon Global Solutions.
The trail to England
The traces of Anthony Norman continue to one of London’s most famous streets.
On 16 February 2022, he registered the company WQT Global in an apartment building in City Road. The company stated an initial capital of 400 million pounds – over five billion kroner.
There we find another link to the drug plane that landed in Tønsberg:
The largest owner in WQT was Sunfite AB – the same company which, as shown further up in this article, part-financed the purchase of the drug plane.
CITY ROAD: Commercial buildings and luxury apartments in City Road in London. Photo: NTB Show more
Codename “Dragon”
Although Anthony Norman was not charged with anything criminal, both drug pilots linked him to the case.
In the interrogation Dagbladet has read, it appears that the Swedish police caught the nickname “Dragon” in wiretapping.
– Anthony Norman sits on the accounts, he is the “Dragon”, the main man explained in questioning.
We go back 15 years in time.
The painting that disappeared
Then we are back in 2009.
Then Sweden’s art community finally got a solution to a persistent mystery. The valuable artwork Sunset, painted by Gustaf Fjæstad, had been adrift for 21 years. Now it appeared in the home of a 49-year-old man from Uppsala.
In court it emerged that he had bought the painting from one of Sweden’s most famous criminals: Stefan Eriksson, known in the Swedish press as the leader of the so-called Uppsala mafia.
In the same year, the two were convicted together in a fraud case, where a person is also convicted of threats.
His name is Omar Belawni – and is known today as “The Count”.
SERVING DRUG ADDICTION: Omar Belawni is now serving time in a major amphetamine case. He is believed to be one of the leaders of Foxtrot. Photo: Swedish police Show more
As Dagbladet has mentioned several times, Swedish police believe that Omar Belawni is one of the leaders in the Foxtrot network. His lawyer, Thomas Olsson, has not responded to Dagbladet’s questions about this case.
But here, in other words, we find a link between two of Scandinavia’s most feared criminal environments. The Uppsala mafia and the Foxtrot network.
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We also find a link to the Norwegian drug case – with the plane that smuggled cannabis to Tønsberg. When the bank company that was used when the drug plane was sold was closed on 28 November last year, Anthony Norman had owned it for a long time together with a woman (37).
She is married to the 49-year-old from Uppsala who had the Gustaf Fjæstad painting hanging in his living room.
FOXTROT RING: Pictures secured by Swedish police show Omar Belawni with a Foxtrot ring on his finger. Photo: From Swedish police documents Show more
The foster children
As Dagbladet has revealed, the supposed Foxtrot leader Omar Belawni can be linked to planning murder, smuggling and grenade attacks – and he has contacts here in Norway.
At the same time, he has a long career behind him as a businessman – including with companies that helped foster and refugee children.
SMILE FOR THE CAMERA: There aren’t many photos of Anthony Norman. But if you are caught speeding in Sweden, the police will record the photo from your driver’s license. Photo: Swedish police Show more
He had two business partners in the foster home company Andra Chancen. One of them was the previously mentioned 49-year-old with links to the Uppsala mafia. The other was a taxi driver. When the latter went bankrupt, he received assistance from a company called Stockholm IT Ventures. The company’s director?
Anthony Norman.
That company – known in the financial environment as simply “Stockholm IT” – we will get to know better.
WANTED DRUG KING: Daniel Kinahan. His cartel can be linked to Anthony Norman’s Stockholm IT Ventures. view more
The money from Tromsø
Stockholm IT is also the company that links Anthony Norman to Norway, through a major money laundering case investigated by Økokrim here in Oslo.
Seven people – five in Norway and two in Belgium – were convicted in the case. Two of them have appealed, in a case that will come up in May. Anthony Norman was not charged in the case.
But two transactions Dagbladet has investigated now link Anthony Norman’s network more closely to the Økocrim case.
Money from Tromsø rich man
Approximately NOK 1 million, which was the proceeds of a fraud, was transferred from Tromsø millionaire Pål Jønsson, convicted of money laundering, in 2018. The sum ended up in the account of BTT Sweden, a company owned by Stockholm IT Ventures.
Documentation presented by Økokrim in the Oslo district court shows that the money from the millionaire in Tromsø continued its journey to two Swedish businessmen.
According to a company profile on the industry website Crypto Totem, in 2018-2019 the two were involved in the development and marketing of the cryptocurrency Bytemine – together with Anthony Norman.
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Dagbladet has revealed that Stockholm IT Ventures in the same period made another acquisition: Of the Dubai-based crypto company Blockchain Technology Capital.
The director of that company is Mujassum Butt, a British entrepreneur who openly collaborates with wanted drug kingpin Daniel Kinahan. Dagbladet has been looking for Butt for a long time – without success.
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Ecoteq director Lars Erik Bengtsson has not answered Dagbladet’s questions. Dagbladet has also sought the man who worked with Norman and Dragon Global in the drug case, the lawyers of the main man in the drug case and of the man formerly named Tommy Zethraeus, and the two men who received money laundering money in the Norwegian case. We have not been able to make contact with any of these actors.
2024-02-25 06:56:15
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