Finnish police are completing a large-scale investigation into an international phone fraud case, in which Danish groups were probably involved.
This is reported by the broadcaster Yle, reports “European Truth”.
As the Finnish broadcaster noted, the country's police are completing an investigation into a large-scale international fraud case.
It is noted that persons who are probably connected to the Danish criminal group, are suspected of making fraudulent phone calls to various countries in Northern Europe, posing as police and bank employees.
Law enforcement officials reported that they had defrauded victims of hundreds of thousands of euros. According to preliminary investigations, the victims suffered losses totaling about 400 thousand euros.
According to police, 22 people were arrested during the investigation from June to November, six of them – Danish citizens, five – Norway.
Finnish police have set up a joint international investigation team with Danish and Norwegian police, led by Finland.
In September, police in the Slovak city of Previdza investigated a fraud case involving a 62-year-old woman who was forced to give up her and her daughter's savings worth 100,000 euros.
In early October, it was reported that Norwegian police were investigating a large-scale fraud case involving a possible “call center” operating in Finland and suspected of defrauding Norwegian elderly people of at least 1 million euros.