The case in summary A man has been sentenced to prison for one year and two months for defrauding 172 people for almost half a million kroner through the sale of mobile phones and festival passes on Finn.no and Facebook. The man put up over 100 mobile phones and some festival passes for sale, but the buyers never received the items they paid for. He must pay a compensation sum of NOK 224,000 to the victims in the case, and the state collects the remaining fraud sum of NOK 118,000. To hide his actions, he created fake profiles on Facebook, used fake names, presented fake receipts, paid for and generated shipments via Posten, and created several bank accounts in Norway and abroad. The man was internationally wanted in 2023 and arrested in Spain in July this year. He has been in custody for 116 days, which will be deducted from the prison sentence. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAI. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. A man has been sentenced to prison in the Sogn og Fjordane district court after he defrauded 172 people for close to half a million kroner. In the judgment, it appears that the Sunnfjorden received money for over 100 mobile phones and some festival passes on Finn.no, and on various sales pages on Facebook. But the expectant mobile phone buyers and ticket sellers never got the goods they paid for. In August 2023 alone, he conned 49 people who thought they were buying phones. The man in his 30s is sentenced to prison for one year and two months. In addition, he must pay a compensation sum of NOK 224,000 to the aggrieved parties in the case. In addition to the state collecting the remaining fraud sum of NOK 118,000. The man has been banned from Finn.no after the fraud. Photo: Mathias Oppedal Presented false receipts and used false names The man has pleaded guilty. – My client has accepted the sentence. In other words, accepted it, says the man’s defender, Ivar Blikra, to news. They are therefore not going to appeal the verdict. According to the verdict, the man took a number of measures to hide his actions and make the ads appear real. He did this by, among other things, creating fake profiles on Facebook, using fake names, and presenting fake receipts. In addition, he has paid for and generated shipments via Posten, and set up a number of bank accounts in Norway and abroad. Sunnfjordingen is now banned from Finn.no. – We can confirm that we have received four reports of fraud on this person. After that, we have seen several attempts by the same person to post advertisements on Finn, but it has been blocked by us, said senior communications advisor Adéle Cappelen Blystad in Finn to news in August. Police prosecutor Vegard Gjertsen is responsible for prosecuting the case. Photo: Olav Døvik / news Arrested on Canary Island The police have been working on the case since 2023, and the man was internationally wanted in September of the same year. Sunnfjordingen was arrested in Spain on 9 July this year. He was arrested on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura, which is one of the Canary Islands. The man has been in custody for 116 days. This will be a deduction from the prison sentence of one year and two months. news has spoken to the prosecutor in the case, Vegard Gjertsen, who currently has no comment on the verdict. Published 29/10/2024, at 10.47 Updated 29/10/2024, at 13.03
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Man sentenced to prison after defrauding 172 people – news Vestland
