On Monday, the verdict came against the 32-year-old league member who was arrested in Romania in September this year.

According to the man himself, he was in Sweden and collected deposit cans and had, through an acquaintance, contacted the people with whom he later carried out the thefts. The 32-year-old's job was to collect car parts, but he was not involved in planning the crimes himself.

30 cars were looted

On one of the occasions, during a weekend in August 2017, nearly 30 of the company's BMW cars in Nyköping were looted on car parts worth about SEK 3 million.

At the end of October, the league struck again on two occasions. Then car parts were stolen for around SEK 1 million from several cars at the company's facilities in Nyköping and Linköping.

- DNA traces have been found on the site and through them we have succeeded in connecting the person to the deeds, says assistant prosecutor Johanna Levin.

Arrested in a border check

The Swedish police have the right to search other European police authorities' records of, among other things, DNA and fingerprints. And it was through such a search that the police got hit on the 32-year-old's DNA. The man had previously been detained in France, suspected of theft and theft.

A Swedish arrest warrant was issued and on September 24 this year, the 32-year-old was arrested at an airport in Romania.

Offered money

Surveillance films from the three thefts in Nyköping and Linköping show three people, but only the 32-year-old could be brought to justice. He has admitted the crimes.

- He has not been able to name any people, but if we were to get new DNA traces, we could resume the preliminary investigation, says Johanna Levin.

In addition to the prison sentence and deportation, the man is also sentenced to pay close to SEK 4 million in damages.