The prosecution is the result of a police operation called "Sunshine".

- The focus of this effort has not been to follow the money or the money launderers, but to focus higher up and look at who is in charge in order to prosecute them, says Caroline Green, head of investigation fraud crime police region East in a press release.

32 million in proceeds of crime

According to the prosecutor, the total proceeds of crime in the tangle are 32 million kroner, but the current indictment refers to a gain of crime of just over 6.4 million kroner.

The public prosecutor's office has also targeted the leading figures.

- Therefore, it is satisfactory that I can now prosecute an administrator and an organizer in addition to six so-called money goalkeepers, says senior prosecutor Karin Sandén at the Prosecutor's Office in Norrköping.

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Here, Karl-Johan Lantz, civil investigator at the fraud group in Linköping, explains how some of the fraudsters' methods work.

Photo: SVT