The procedure is the same in all cases. A man has appeared in several shops in Eastern Norway where he has identified himself as one of the celebrities. He has then been handed expensive smartphones, before creating subscriptions in the celebrities’ names. He later used these to buy goods on credit for many thousands of kroner. Leo Ajkic, Abubakar Hussein and Galvan Mehidi are three of several celebrities who have been defrauded. news knows that the identities of several other famous men have also been misused. Several news celebrities exposed For the TV profile Leo Ajkic, it was a bill from Telenor that made him aware that something serious was going on. – He had used my identity to buy phones and goods for between NOK 40,000 and 50,000, says Ajkic. He has reported the matter to the police. RECEIVED A BILL: Leo Ajkic became aware of the identity theft when he received a bill for something he had never bought. Photo: Eivind Senneset / Pandora Film A similar bill of NOK 4,000 was dumped on presenter Abubakar Hussein in the news podcast “With all respect”. – I don’t even have a subscription with Telenor, and didn’t understand anything, says Hussein, who talks about the fraud in an episode they have called “We are on the fraudster’s list!” FRAUD: Abubakar Hussein received a demand for money from Telenor. Photo: Julia Naglestad / news Co-presenter Galvan Mehidi was also exposed to the same. Mehidi was in the process of changing banks and mobile subscriptions when the ID theft occurred. That is why he did not react when he was assessed for credit. – Sky-high risk After several shops had been defrauded, the alarm went off at the security center in Telenor. They have connected the 35-year-old’s own phone to all the subscriptions the fraudster has created. The 35-year-old is said to have visited several electronics stores in the cities he went to. – He has acted with sky-high risk when he has appeared in the shops and pretended to be famous people, says senior adviser Thorbjørn Busch at Telenor. TRACKING THE FRAUDSTER: Senior advisor Thorbjørn Busch in the security department at Telenor tracked the accused to Tønsberg. Photo: Telenor He praises the police for the cooperation that led to the man’s arrest. – We had information that he was in Tønsberg and therefore notified Power, but the man had already been there. Then we were quite sure that he was on his way to Elkjøp, says Busch, which turned out to be true and the police arrested him on the spot. Previously expelled from the country Two days later, the 35-year-old was remanded in custody in Vestfold district court. The police said during the detention meeting that they have received reports from other places in the country on similar matters for which he is now charged. According to the imprisonment order, the man has been permanently deported from Norway after serving a previous sentence. The ruling states that the accused has stated that he was released from serving a sentence in Norway in April this year. After this, he has stayed in Norway, but also in France. – In the court’s opinion, the accused’s weak connection to Norway means that there are concrete and objective evidence that he will avoid criminal prosecution if he is released now, says the ruling from the district court.
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