Published 23 April 2024 at 15.38
Domestic. The Malmö-based lawyer Soheil Naderi, who for several years defrauded clients, is sentenced to prison by the district court.
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The police investigation against Soheil Naderi was started after SVT reviewed his law practice in Malmö and Stockholm.
According to the review, among other things, he had defrauded a 97-year-old woman with dementia of her home and fortune.
Today he was sentenced to prison for five and a half years. He is also banned from business for seven years.
Most of the crimes are connected to Soheil Naderi's legal business, Jurista, in Malmö and Stockholm during the years 2018–2022. He has also conducted rental operations in a limited company in Malmö.
The district court convicts Naderi of a total of 14 cases of gross fraud against clients. In all cases, the clients contacted him after seeing his flyers offering free advice. The lawyer has given the appearance of being knowledgeable and following the Bar Association's ethical rules. He has made his clients believe that they will get help and requested an advance from the clients of between 10,000 and 200,000 kroner. Once he received the money, he did not complete the assignments. In some cases, he has even blocked the clients' numbers on his phone to avoid them.
The crime has been going on for a long time and has been repeated and “characterized by a certain systematicity”. According to the district court, some crimes have been particularly reckless in that they targeted elderly people.
On two occasions, according to the verdict, Soheil Naderi has tried to defraud property with the help of untrue gift certificates. In both cases, it is about elderly women who have hired him for help with wills, but where he instead misled them into signing documents to make it look like they gave him, among other things, an apartment and a property worth several million kroner.
Naderi has also embezzled SEK 1.8 million in connection with establishing a gift between spouses, where he himself kept the money. During the house search, the police also found other documents with variations of this gift. For this, he is sentenced for gross embezzlement and preparation for gross fraud.
The district court also sentences him for accounting offenses and serious accounting offenses because he conducted business in the years 2018–2022 without accounting for it.
Finally. Soheil Naderi is also convicted of civil registration offences, as he was for a period registered as an emigrant with the Tax Agency, despite the fact that he lived in Malmö and worked there.
In total, the district court convicts him, against his denial, of fourteen counts of gross fraud , two counts of preparation for gross fraud, one count of attempted gross fraud, gross misappropriation, three counts of gross accounting crime, three counts of accounting crime, and civil registration crime. Soheil Naderi is sentenced to prison for 5 years and 6 months. He must also pay just over SEK 2.5 million in damages and will be banned from business for seven years.