The woman has lived a seemingly ordinary life with toddlers and jobs in the care sector. Now she is suspected to have been one of the key players in a drug network that must have handled drugs at a street value of SEK 112 million.

The woman herself is suspected in her apartment to have handled drugs worth SEK 10 million.

Today, the trial begins with her and 14 men, all of whom will have leading roles in a business that must have brought in, handled and sold large quantities of heroin and cocaine - a drug traffic mainly controlled from the Netherlands. The crime classification is mainly particularly serious drug smuggling and / or particularly serious drug crime, crimes that can provide up to 10 years in prison at most. The woman is suspected of both crimes.

Of the 15 defendants, only the woman and one man are Swedish citizens.

Several of the accused men are supposed to have links to the accusation of the occult fraternity Black Ax - a mafia-like group with roots in Nigeria. The group is known for its huge violence capital and for using black magic to influence its members.

Backpacks leave the apartment

The drug must have been brought from the Netherlands to Sweden, Norway and Denmark via truck or passenger car, packed in large capsules.

Once in Sweden, the drugs have been taken to Stockholm, and then transported to Gothenburg. There, according to the indictment, the woman received and stored the drug in her home and handed it over to a large number of suspected drug distributors in the Gothenburg area.

Found hidden banknotes

In addition to the woman having handled large quantities of drugs, she is also suspected to have received large sums of money from drug trafficking and then brought them abroad, or handed them over to other people in cash.

In October 2018, the suspected woman went to a exchange office in Gothenburg with one of the other accused men.

When the police searched the exchange office a few weeks later, more than SEK 1 million was found in hidden banknotes.

“Under the desk is a shelf where banknotes were found. Remaining banknotes are found embedded in a wall, above a door frame / doorpost. In total, the sum for the bracket (converted to SEK) is 1,700,207 ”, it is stated in the Customs Administration's preliminary investigation protocol.

The lawyer: "Extremely heavy for her"

- My client is shocked and surprised. She knows some of these guys they have a social interaction with, but she has not understood that it is the drug trade they are dealing with, says the woman's defense lawyer David Breitfeld.

On October 8 last year, the woman was arrested and arrested three days later. Since then she has been detained.

"It is extremely difficult for her, it is an extremely long time to have been detained," says her lawyer David Breitfed.

"We also don't understand why she has been given such a prominent role in the prosecution," he says.

But the prosecutor thus thinks differently.

- The woman is one of the main characters in this organization, since she lives in Gothenburg. But she has no connection to Black Ax. But it is clear to me that she is aware that she is part of a drug dealing organization, says Anna Svedin, prosecutor in the case.

The accused woman has previously been punished. She denies the crime, but admits she knows some of the other defendants before.

Another two persons are detained in their absence and requested surrender from the Netherlands.

Hear Prosecutor Anna Svedin on Black Ax - an occult fraternity

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Listen to Gill Eriksson, Deputy Head of the Customs Crime and Chamber Prosecutor Anna Svedin tell about the prosecution in the clip above. Photo: SVT