Vestre Landsret refuses to stop the criminal case against Tvind founder Mogens Amdi Petersen.
This appears from a ruling from the High Court on Friday.
The now 85-year-old Mogens Amdi Petersen and four other members of Tvind’s management are charged with having committed embezzlement and tax fraud between 1990 and 1995.
Amdi and three of the defendants have requested the High Court to decide whether the charges against them should be dropped.
Vestre Landsret has rejected the defendants’ claim that the prosecution must drop the charges.
The four also did not succeed in the claim to cancel a provision that they are detained in absentia.
Vestre Landsret justifies the decision by the fact that it is the prosecution that has the competence to drop charges in a criminal case.
The reason why the high court has decided that the four must continue to be imprisoned in absentia is that there is still a suspicion against them.
The defendants reside in Mexico, which is why the high court considers that they are evading prosecution.
It is not the first time that Mogens Amdi Petersen and others from the inner circle in Tvind have tried to persuade the national judges to state that they should no longer be remanded in custody in absentia.
It failed in March 2022, when the High Court simultaneously issued an international arrest warrant.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
