الأثنين, مايو 13th 2024
A high-ranking Hells Angels member from Basel faces a dozen charges, including serious financial, sexual and violent crimes, marking a significant trial for Swiss legal proceedings.
From today, Monday, a suspected high-ranking member of the Hells Angels will have to answer to the Basel Criminal Court for a whole series of criminal offences. Among other things, he is accused of gang fraud and money laundering amounting to millions, rape, sexual acts with children and bribery of prison officers.
Also charged is a couple from neighbouring Alsace, who worked for Securitas AG as guards at the Waaghof remand prison in Basel. There, the 28-year-old female guard is alleged to have repeatedly engaged in sexual acts with the main defendant in return for payment, while the 29-year-old man is alleged to have smuggled cell phones into the cell and carried out criminal courier services, among other things.
The indictment of the main defendant, a 36-year-old Turkish national born in Basel, lists an extensive list of criminal offences: Among other things, it concerns commercial and gang money laundering, commercial and gang fraud, multiple rape, sexual acts with children, pornography, forgery of documents, bribery, forgery of identity documents and contravention of the Gambling Act.
According to the indictment, the accused has committed crimes since his youth that have resulted in several relevant previous convictions. He had an extensive network in Turkey and also in this country, which he had used for crimes of various kinds. His high positions in the Hells Angels in Turkey and in Basel had helped him to build up an emphatic threatening gesture, it is said.
According to the indictment, the criminal proceedings centre on large-scale investment fraud and money laundering. The accused is alleged to have been involved in fraudulent activities amounting to 3.6 million euros and to have been largely responsible for laundering these funds. These cases involved using bogus companies to defraud potential investors.
In the organisation of illegal gambling for which he is accused, the accused acted in a hierarchically superior position, according to the indictment, which runs to an impressive 52 pages. The criminal proceedings went far beyond the usual scope of investigations and inquiries, writes the public prosecutor’s office.
In addition to leasing fraud and the forgery of ID cards, the defendant is also accused of a whole series of forgeries of Covid certificates. A former employee of a medical laboratory in Basel is alleged to have been significantly involved in these. According to the indictment, the Swiss footballer Breel Embolo is also alleged to have been one of the customers in question.
The process is scheduled to last twelve days.
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