A man in his 40s is charged with attempted murder after shooting another man at Furuset on Tuesday evening. He is said to have used a two-handed automatic rifle of the AK-47 type, the police say. According to news’s information, at least four shots were fired. The police believe he has links to an organized criminal environment in Eastern Norway. – It is too early to say what kind of environment we are talking about. But there are some relations between the two parties and an underlying cause or conflict that we can say more about in due course, says police inspector Grete Lien Metlid to news. Empty shell casings found after the shooting. Photo: Annika Byrde / NTB The accused man admits to having shot, but denies guilt for attempted murder. – There must have been a conflict that lies in the background of the shooting at Furuset in Oslo on Tuesday evening, says the accused’s defender Øystein Ola Storrvik to news. According to what news is informed, the conflict is supposed to be about finances, but the defender does not want to comment on that. High debt An hour and a half after the shooting, the accused was stopped in an expensive luxury car that is registered to a company that the man owns. There is a sales deposit of almost NOK 1.6 million on the car. As of 2020, the man’s company had a debt of NOK 10.6 million. Since 2020, the company has not submitted annual accounts, and it is in danger of being forcibly dissolved, the Brønnøysund registers inform news. Sports manager Despite a number of serious sentences over the past 20 years, the accused man has held a central position in a sports club in recent years. When he was sentenced last autumn for negligent healing, more than ten years had passed since the last sentence. The district court then pointed out that the defendant had received an education, got a job and a family. “He thus seems to have put his criminal past behind him. The court considers it to be the case that a longer unconditional sentence would seem unfortunate for the positive life situation the defendant now seems to be in.” He was sentenced to prison for five months, two of which were suspended. This judgment was appealed by the public prosecutor. Traded Rolex watches with B gang leader The man in his 40s had sold Rolex watches to a man who has been convicted of Nav fraud. This man has had a central role in the criminal B gang in Oslo. The court believed that the defendant should have been investigated better to make sure that the money he received did not originate from crime. Part of the negotiations were done in the premises of the sports club where the man had a leadership position. The district court convicted him of negligent embezzlement of NOK 1.5 million. “Although it did not seem unusual to the defendant to settle with watches since he had previously bought and sold watches, the court believes that settling with watches for such a large loan amount should have given rise to suspicion,” it says in the judgment from last autumn. “Torpedo business” In 2008, the man was sentenced to a total of six years in prison in a joint sentence. He was then convicted after an unsuccessful attempt at drug smuggling. A batch of 93 kilos of hashish was stopped by German customs in 2007. The Oslo man acknowledged that he had been the client. He has also been convicted of complicity in the robbery of Sparebanken Sør in Kristiansand, which he acknowledged. He had then been involved in planning and obtained the car that was used in the robbery with a profit of NOK 400,000. Two masked and armed persons robbed the Sparebanken Sør in Kristiansand on 4 April 2007. The person accused of the Furuset shooting was convicted of complicity in the robbery. Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder / NTB He also pleaded guilty to aggravated theft in the form of a watch and the purchase of 200 grams of cocaine. He has also been convicted of kidnapping and violence. In the abduction case from 1999, the judge writes: “The crimes bear the stamp of “torpedo” activity on behalf of others.” Tip news’s crime group: Do you have information about this case or other crime cases? Contact news’s crime group. You can tip us off by e-mail or through news’s encrypted notification service. Here you can tip us anonymously. We also treat all tips confidentially, in line with the Vær varsom poster’s rules on source protection.
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