Got scams million on account – claims she did not know – HegnarOnline

The woman admits however that she received tens of millions of dollars into accounts she possessed in Dubai and that she ran a series of trips to various bank branches to withdraw money. But Sonja Rashid claims she had no idea that the money derived from illegal activities, and believes she can not therefore be penalized for rough handling stolen goods, so the prosecutor wants. Tuesday begins the trial against her in the Oslo District Court.

– She does not dispute the fact of the matter, but the essential question for our part is what she understood of these origins of the funds, says the woman’s lawyer, Jan Erik Teigum, NTB.

He believes Rashid legally not intentional, a fundamental criterion to be punishable by indictment for aggravated illegal handling.

89 million
The money within a few weeks in summer 2010 flowed into three business accounts she possessed in Dubai, stemmed from the so-called Nordea fraud. Six people have already been convicted of falsifying an authority that made it possible to drain the account of one of Norway’s richest women, Randi Nilsen. The dividend totaled just over 89 million.

78 of those millions went into the accounts of Sonia Rashid, which about 53 million were withdrawn in cash in 29 outlets almost immediately after they had entered .

In the sentences that are handed down so far, it is assumed that there were two brothers, one of whom were located in Dubai, which was the brains behind the fraud and the main recipients of the money.

Ten million in an outlet
One of the two brothers was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison when Nordea case went Court of Appeal. The other, who is a year older, is still at large, and will be in Dubai, according to VG.

Sonia Rashid even pointed out older brother (39) as the recipient of the money, and that the she ran around in Dubai together with to withdraw cash. He has always rejected her claims and has always denied having had anything to account draining to do.

– Every day for three weeks, we drove around and took out money. The minimum amount I took out the dirham, was approximately 700,000 dollars. The biggest amount of cash I took out corresponded ten million dollars, has a business woman told the newspaper. (© NTB)