SVT Nyheter Blekinge has in several publications told about the 33-year-old. He was arrested in early 2023 on suspicion of several aggravated frauds.
Already in 2013, some investors in Skåne, the 33-year-old's old hockey buddies, began to suspect that the promises did not hold. They had then contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars, with the promise of getting back double within weeks when the tickets for a planned Justin Timberlake concert started to go on sale.
"Then it was postponed and didn't happen. Then there was a new concert with a new artist and a new date and we would get paid extra for waiting, says one of them.
Reported to the police
After a year of broken promises, the Scanian investors went to the police.
– The police said that it was about private loans and that we had to solve it with the Enforcement Authority, even though I knew that he was just going around the country chasing investors.
What are your thoughts on that today?
"This could have been stopped much earlier.
Invested money at festival
In 2018 and 2019, additional police reports were filed. A private individual in Norway had invested SEK 5.5 million in a promised Coldplay concert in Stockholm. A person in Blekinge contributed SEK 100,000 to a house gig in Kalmar that also did not happen.
This time, the police opened two preliminary investigations. But in 2021, they were closed, because the suspect registered abroad and the crime therefore could not be investigated. However, after the 33-year-old was arrested, the police report from Norway has been taken up again.
The investigator in charge declined to comment on the previous police investigations. The 33-year-old denies all criminal charges.