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In the period from May to September this year, the man, using the trust-based crown support schemes of the Tax Administration and NAV, managed to attract more than NOK 6 million.
When the trial against him began in the Oslo District Court this week, he laid all the cards on the table and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
– He has recognized it and takes responsibility for his actions. It has been an exceptionally fast investigation, of course because it has been a priority, but also because it has questioned and acknowledged all the circumstances, says defense attorney Ole Petter Drevland of the Drevland and Grape DA law firm.
DEFENDANT: Ole Petter Drevland, listed here in another case, says it has been a simplified investigation and trial because the client has cooperated.
Photograph: Petter Strøm / NRK
“There is no doubt that the main objective of the defendant in the fraud was to achieve his own financial gain, and this through the use of automated data solutions based on trust that were created to be able to quickly pay the benefits to companies and individuals who suffered economically during the covid-19 pandemic, “he says at the trial.
Continued after arrest
The fraud involved the man filing applications for companies with a large drop in turnover, without his company meeting these requirements.
State Attorney Jens Bachke in Økokrim tells NRK that the man used his sole proprietorship when the fictitious applications were filed.
– We received a report from the Tax Administration and Nav, says Bachke about how the police followed him.
According to the verdict, false labor relations were also created in the companies of the accused. Then wages were demanded for these nonexistent employees.
The fraud was first discovered on June 25. The man in his 20s was arrested and charged by the police and laid the cards on the table.
But the scams were not over. The recent verdict from the Oslo District Court states that the man continued to cheat money after his release.
On September 23 of this year, the man was arrested again and placed in preventive detention. When the trial against him was this week, he admitted to the fraud.
In addition to a prison sentence, the man has been sentenced to pay compensation of NOK 5,434,287, as well as a confiscation of NOK 2,626,477.
“In the opinion of the court, the choice and actions of the defendant in this regard demonstrate that the defendant has had a total lack of respect for criminal norms that are intended to protect support schemes clearly based on trust,” he says the recent sentence.
Ecocrime describes the case as very serious.
– The severe punishment reflects the court’s opinion on the seriousness of the abuses of such schemes, says Bachke in Økokrim.
