The trial at Stockholm District Court, which began in October 2019 and ended just over a month later, may result in the CEO of the fund company Allra Alexander Ernstberger being sentenced to seven years in prison. For a crime that he and the other three defendants have denied.

To find evidence of the alleged crimes, including gross bribery and gross negligence against the principal, the prosecutor has demanded that Alexander Ernstberger reveal the code to his phone.

- The special thing was that Alexander was willing to give us the code for his computer and his tablet. But not exactly that cellphone, which made us interested in it, says Thomas Hertz, chamber prosecutor in the case.

It took the experts in question six months to break the code lock and access the SMS prescriptions which the prosecutor believes show that crime has taken place.

- I would like to emphasize that our evidence was sufficient even before we had access to the SMS conversations. But the information on the cellphone gives more details about how the defendants are involved in the case, says Thomas Hertz.

And according to the chamber prosecutor, several parts of the SMS conversations were extra interesting. Among other things, one between Allra's CEO and one of the other defendants, "Defendant 1", who works at the fund company where it appears that Alexander Ernstberger has been more involved in the course of events than he admitted in court.

In the conversation, the prosecutor believes that Ernstberger gave the go-ahead to invest in certain warrants, a type of securities. A deal brokered by Oak Capital - which in turn received a 65 percent commission from Allra. A commission that the prosecutor claims is a bribe and may have ended up in the defendants' own pockets.

The text conversation below is one of the evidence that the prosecutor's office shows shows that Ernstberger was involved in the cases.

Defendant : What's going on?

Ernstberger : Everything green

Defendant : Should I ask (fund company Gustavia ed. Note) send ???

Ernstberger : Yes

Spoken : Ok. Will be the captain!

At the same time, the defense side dismisses the evidence in question.

- The only thing you got rid of when you pride yourself on getting into the phone is the word "yes". But this has nothing to do with the matter, says Alexander Ernstberger's defense lawyer Carl-Johan Malmberg.

The judgment in the Allra case comes at 12 o'clock on Friday (?).

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