Published 28 July 2021 at 15.48
Economics. Everyone's convicted CEO Alexander Ernstberger today owes the pension savers SEK 314,870,844 including interest. But through various money laundering schemes involving the Bank of Åland and Ernstberger's wife, the Enforcement Officer is now expected to have problems with foreclosure.
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In 2017, the day before the then recently arrested Alexander Ernstberger resigned as Allra's CEO, the Bank of Åland took out a mortgage deed of ten million kronor in his luxury villa on Lidingö, which the police had just blocked off.
The Bank of Åland is the same bank that in May 2017 took over Allra's funds within the premium pension system. According to information to Expressen, EBM revealed the investigation to the bank a few days before the villa was seized, so that the bank could go in and secure the mortgage deeds and sniff out the pension savers' money.
In plain text, this means that the Bank of Åland, as soon as they and they found out that their client's property was derived from crime, decided to seize as much of the property as possible in order to prevent the cheated pension savers from getting their money back.
The bank's officials were brave, because anyone who tries to take advantage of property arising from crime can be sentenced to up to six years in prison, according to the law on penalties for money laundering from 2014.
Although the media wrote a lot about the tours around the mortgage deeds Representatives before the Bank of Åland were never prosecuted for money laundering, and when the Stockholm District Court later acquitted the defendants in Allra-härvan, Ernstberger got back both his bank accounts and the disposal of the property.
After the acquittal, Ernstberger made another money laundering transaction, this time with his wife and with the help of a law firm. In a gift letter signed on December 3 last year and witnessed by the law firm, Ernstberger handed over half the ownership of the luxury villa to his wife, Expressen reports.
Of the SEK 140 million that prosecutor Thomas Hertz seized on the basis of the law on penalties for money laundering, nothing remains today. This is because the Stockholm District Court in connection with the acquittal of Alexander Ernstberger decided that he would get back his bank accounts and all property in 2020.
The same year, the same district court decided ironically that Swedbank would close all bank accounts belonging to this newspaper owner Widar Nord, without anyone even claiming that the accounts were used for anything criminal.
In the case of Alexander Ernstberger, however, banks and credit institutions have been queuing up to offer their services following the Stockholm District Court's acquittal. Among other things, Ernstberger has bought a new Porsche – on credit – which the Enforcement Officer has now seized, Expressen writes. Since a mortgage on a car does not entail an obvious preferential right, the bank that made that particular transaction may have actually incurred credit losses.
And also in other respects, certain things could have been seized. In the foreclosure decisions that have come so far, SvD writes today that the Enforcement Officer has seized Ernstberger's property, a sports car, a large part of his furniture and an ISK account with SEK 8 million in assets.