Spanish police raid Jonas Falk’s house in an extortion racket

At 8 o’clock on Wednesday morning, the police made a coordinated effort at several locations around Sweden. Among those arrested is a woman who previously had a central role in one of Sweden’s most high-profile crimes and a man who is a lawyer.

– We had an operation yesterday where we arrested people in various places in Sweden. It happened at a common time, for investigative tactical reasons, says prosecutor Anna Stråth, who leads the preliminary investigation.

About the lawyer she says:

– A lawyer is suspected of complicity in this crime. The suspicion is aiding and abetting attempted extortion, says Stråth.

The police swooped in – Falk was not at home

The arrests are connected to the high-profile extortion attempts against the former Fastator CEO Joachim Kuylenstierna, who, according to information, has demanded money in the hundreds of millions. Despite the fact that the extortion demands were made public already last autumn, the extortion has continued until now.

Now Expressen can reveal that at the same time as the police made several arrests in Sweden on Wednesday, they also raided Jonas Falk in Spain.

– They came to my house at exactly 08.00. There were 20-30 armed police and three of them were Swedish police. I wasn’t at home at the time but they took all the computers and the wife’s mobile, says Jonas Falk.

According to Falk, the police were not there to arrest him, but to search and interrogate him. The raid must have been made at Sweden’s request within the framework of a so-called European investigation order.

Left letters with questions

According to Falk, the police left behind a document with questions to which they wanted answers.

– There were questions about Joachim Kuylenstierna. If I know him. If I have had affairs with him. If I have sent someone on him, says Falk.

Falk says that he then contacted the police and booked an interview. It was held on Thursday morning at the Policía Nacional premises in Barcelona.

– It was the Spanish police who asked the questions. The Swedish police sat quietly next to it and recorded, says Falk.

Exactly what suspicions the police and prosecutor have against Jonas Falk is unknown. Prosecutor Anna Stråth declines to comment on whether Swedish police have carried out any operations in Spain linked to the extortion racket.

Details of old debt

In a book that was released last fall, previously unknown information was revealed which claimed that there was an old debt based on the fact that Jonas Falk, via bulvan, invested around 30 million in Kuylenstierna’s company at the time. The investment was alleged to have been part of a money laundering scheme. Both Kuylenstierna and Falk have denied this.

Jonas Falk became infamous in connection with the so-called “Playa” goal in the early 2010s. He was then charged on suspicion of leading an extensive drug ring that smuggled tons of cocaine from South America to Europe. In 2014, he was finally acquitted by the Svea Court of Appeal for the drug part of the Playa case.

He was then extradited to Spain on suspicion of financial crime linked to drug money. In the spring of 2021, he was sentenced in the first instance to two and a half years in prison and a fine of SEK 50 million.