A Norwegian man aged 20 was caught by National Police in the town of Rojales in Alicante. The Norwegian government had issued an OEDE for his extradition because he was wanted for aggravated fraud that happened in his home country in 2023.
The Alicante National Police were told about it through the International Cooperation Section of the Prosecutor’s Office, after Norwegian investigators found his current home in the Spanish municipality.
The man is suspected of committing at least 37 frauds in a variety of ways, such as by getting app users to pay for goods that were never delivered or by getting them to click on a fake link in a text message from someone pretending to be from the Norwegian Tax Administration, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, or another organisation. This led to the users giving sensitive information.
The victims were then called by people they didn’t know who said they were from the police or other services. They were tricked into giving more personal and banking information, which led to the transfer of several million Norwegian kroner from the victims’ bank accounts.
Both the people who were harmed and the banks lost at least 8.4 million Norwegian kroner, which is about 720,000 euros. Under Norwegian law, the suspect could get up to six years in jail for these crimes.
People like this person could be arrested because police from other countries shared information and worked well together with the National Police. Having gone through the police processes, the suspect was given to the Central Court of Instruction of the National Court. This is the judicial body that is in charge of the steps needed to extradite him.
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