SVT has previously reported on how investment fraud reports are increasing avalanche.

Now SVT can reveal a new variant that is increasing rapidly.

These are fraudsters who deceive their victims twice.

Out of last year's more than 1,600 reports, about 250 people were contacted once again by suspected fraudsters.

SVT has examined the companies that made the pensioner Tomas Holmqvist lose a total of more than one million kronor by, among other things, promising him to save lost money.

One of the companies presents itself under the Aspen Holding brand.

They have a website that still seems active.

Among other things, the German, Polish and Slovak financial inspectors have issued press releases and warned the company.

Despite this, the business seems to continue.

Registered in tax haven

According to the German Financial Supervisory Authority in 2019, the company behind it, Next Trade Ltd, was registered on the island of Vanuatu, which is on the EU's list of 12 tax havens that contribute to tax evasion and do not cooperate with international authorities.

Payments to Aspen Holding have been made through a company in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The telephone numbers available on the website go to Russia and Malaysia and there are only answering machines with the same guitar music.

According to the Central Bank of Lithuania, the brand and the company behind it are linked to about 15 different financial sites, several of them with similar names.

An investor is included on one of the sites as a reference.

But when we search for his portrait photography, we find the exact same image in an image bank for free images.

There, the man's name is something completely different.

The company was reported to the police

Tomas Holmqvist tried to get his money back a second time.

He found another company online.

They promised to take back his money.

The company's website has been shut down today and the UK Financial Services Authority has previously warned them.

Tomas Holmqvist reported the companies to the police, but he says that last summer he was told that the Swedish police had closed the investigation.

Recently, he was told by British investigators that they too had submitted their investigation.

SVT has sought representatives for Aspen Holding and the other company without result.