Sweden commando like Stockholm robbery – 10 charged security footage

Leif Gorts one of the main prosecutors on the case has said that five of the men were charged with aggravated robbery while the other five were charged with complicity.

The investigation leading to the arrest of the ten men has been regarded as one of Sweden’s largest police investigations in history.

The men aged between 23 and 38 face up to 10 years in prison but all have denied the charges.

There were a reported 21 people inside the building but no one was reported injured. A British company which owned the building had also said that the money stolen was destined to cash machines according to Sky News.

Swedish police have said that they were able to retrieve part of the money stolen but the majority of the stolen money is still at large along with two other suspects.

Three masked men armed with pistols and machine guns dropped onto the roof of a cash depot in Stockholm on September 2009 via a stolen helicopter and went into the building through a roof window.

The men then used explosives to blast their way through to the money and then were lifted back up on to the helicopter with the stolen money.

According to Swedish intelligence, police were already tipped off a month before the heist took place after the robbers had tried to recruit a helicopter pilot from Serbia. The tipoff had come from the Serbian police who were informed of the heist and that up to €10 million (£8.2 million).

It had also emerged that two of the charged men were also questioned before the heist took place but due to their being no evidence and the Swedish police not knowing where and when the heist would take place, they were unable to prevent the robbery.

Nine of the men arrested were that of Swedish nationality while on man was reported to have been Syrian.

The court hearing will start on August 4th.