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Olof K Gustafsson has run the company “Escobar Inc”, which refers to the notorious cartel leader Pablo Escobar from Colombia. Among other things, he has marketed himself through YouTube and influencers, and tried to sell products through Escobar’s name. Now a Spanish federal court has approved extraditing the 31-year-old to the United States. Aug. 14. 2024
He is accused of over 100 crimes after running the company “Escobar Inc”.
Olof K Gustafsson was arrested in Marbella last December and is accused of fraud, money laundering and organized crime. Among other things, it will be about false sales of luxury mobile phones and physical cryptocurrency that have not been delivered.
olof k Gustafsson is probably the stangest person who has become famous in sweden.
since he was 17 year old he was given a relatively large space in the media but then he disappeared from the limelight for for several years.
and when he came back at the end of 2020 then he was a changed person with a completely different attitude
he had gone from being like a nerd who was doing comic books to now all ofa sudden he had a cocky attitude and claimed he was working with Pablo escobar’s brother.
an at the end of 2023 he was also arrested in spain on suspicion of several different serious crimes after an investigation by FBI
and he now risks according to his own satement ,2050 years in prison.
so how could a nerdy 17 year old who ran four companies
and who had big ambitions all of a sudden shift to start working on various scams, becom friends with roberto escobar start arguing with several successful people and have the FBI after him
when olof K Gustafsson’s name began to spread in 2010 ,the publicity he received was largely only positive
he presented himself as a driven and ambitious 17 years old who aimed to becom a dollar billlionair
he said that as a 17 year old he ran four different companies and that he had already started his first company as a 13 year old .
so much of the publicity he received was about just that
and if you paid a little attention ,you could alreade see here that olof had an ability to twisting things to make his accomplishments appear to be a bigger or better achievement than they actuallly were .
because the fact was that at this time he hadn’t really accomplished anything of note .
his various businesses that he ran through his father’s company didn’t factor in many kronor on the contrary for olof’s father himself has said that they were making a loss
and olof’s father’s cmpany had a turnover of just over on mllion kronor a year and olof”s fathet himself had business it was most likely a very large percentage of the turnover of income from olof’s father business.
and in interviews olof did not want to tell how much his series of newspaper companies had sold but instead he bragged about how many page views one of websites had since the start
he also lied about his grades…..
he said in interviews that he had MVG(very well approved) in in all subjects but in a criminal case that we will get into soon
olof ‘s father stated that he assumed that olof was frustrated that the high school grades were not enough to enter law school or commerce at school
something that olof as a 17 year old said was his plan.
and not long after this something started to happen with olof and his company.
his Tradera was flooded with customers who had bought comics from him but didn’ t get something
“didn’t get a book i emailed several times and got no reply”
“don’t buy from him , paid, didn’t get an album didn’t hear a word “
and after a while olof went on a series forum and wrote
” unfortunately i have no control over the series shelf since may 14 thus nor responsiblity ,so i advise everyone against shopping from the series shelf and the Tradera series shelf.
and the explanation for this was that things had really soured between olof and his father
because olof reported his father for abuse at this time
and whether Olof’s father had never been convicted of assaulting Olof
it is possible to read that a neighbor testified that she heard that the father yell at olof . there were strong words that were uttered
for example useless, get out of here, go to hell.
olof himself said that his father things like your life will be worthless if you don’t stay with me , black skull , idiot and jew’s pig.
olof also said that from 2006 he was constantly subjeted to to various forms of abuse from his father , sometimes less serious and sometimes rougher
olof says that he was not allowed to have access to his computer or mobile after certain hours and that he was not allowed to bring friends home he is said to have been beaten once when he had brought a friend home
and both olof and his father says that it was precisely olof’s buisness that was a major reason for their quarrel.
olof’s father was acquitted for this ,but the the disctrict court wrote that
” the court has got the impression that the conditions at georg and olof’s home during the years 2006 to 2011 has been difficult.
and after this olof took his pick and pack and moved to the USA where his mother lived and it is also now that olof derails properly
even though much has disappeared over time and websites have been deleted to hide the tracks
there are clear evidence of olof now starting to try commit fraud and fake his his image
you can find little things like one of his homepages at this time
had a photoshopped image where olof cut his head in on james bond
or that he has lied about when he was close to starting a company witha person who had connection to the former republican presidential candidate mitt romney
and whether olof actually managed to blow people at this time or not is hard to know but after a year he starts a new company where he will lend money
and what we know about his lending business is that he was sued because of it and what you can read in the lawsuit is that olof and his partners blew people
often elderly as regards loans with s home as security.
in one place in the lawsuit, it can be read that olof and his partners defrauded an 82 year old mentally ill Aunt millie.
they are also accused of falsifying the loan application and changing the terms so that the people would not be able to repay
and in this way Olof and his partners gain control over their homes
it seems that the whole buisness idea is to deliberately trick people into bad loans and sometimes also change the terms of the loans so they know that the customers will not be able to payback
and just to explain how bad loans that olof issued there is an example included in the lawsuit where it concerns a loan of $180,000 with an interest rate of 12 % per year
for 28 months ,the borrower only pays interest of $ 1,800 a month and then after 28 months a lump sum of $ 18.000 must be repaid
this means that in these 28 months you will to have paid $50, 000 just in interest and then to pay back more than the entire loan amount at once.
and this deal that I took as an example should also, according to the lawsuit, have been carried out with a false signature
after olof’s loan business ,the dyotu og olof begins as is much mbetter known.
and after olof’s loan business, the story of olof, who is considerably more well-known, begins
because he then starts working with robert escobar and starts escobar inc
a company which according to him will work with managin the estate of the drug lord pablo escobar.
and olof has managed to do a bit of everything possible with escobar inc and basically everything is new types of scams.
he sold several different products such as flame throwers, different mobiles , books and he also launched his own esobar cryptocurrencies
but if you bought a product from Escobar Inc and were not a big tick influencer then the chance was very small that you would get any product
olof seemedto only send the products to celebrities who in turn made reviews of the products and olof thus got free advertising.
and a fun thing about just escobar mobiles like olof sold is that marques browniee a tech YouTuber with almost 20 million subscribers had his escobar mobile seized by the FBI
“i went up to the front desk and sure enough there’s three people with badges there and they walk right up to me and they all,like flash their badges, just like the movies, like FBI agent and this IRS agent and like marquez good to see you we got some Questions for you about the escobar phone “
olof doesn’t just use Escobar inc to cheat people on products he also uses it to try to sue various people and companies that used escobar’s name
the most famous is the lawsuit against netflix due to the series narcos
olof demanded in the lawsuit a billion dollar from netflix ,precisely the magical sum that olof several years earlier had as a dream limit
escibar inc and Netflix ,however ,chose to settle outsidee of a trial (according to olof ) and how many money Netflix ultimately paid escobar inc is not public.
olof sued Klara after Klarna chose to withhold olof’s money from telephone sales as they suspected early on that it was all a fraud
even though olof’s story about Klarna’s decision to freeze the payment is that it was because they used scantily clad girls in in the marketing for example
Klarna themselves came out with a comment in Dagens Industri
“but in general, it is the case that if a trader does not send an item as agreed ,it should not affect a consumer who paid with Klarna ,that security is a central part of our offer”
incidentally, this was a lawsuit that Klarna eventually won and olof who again used his father’s company affideer AB to sell the mobiles went bankrupt after this as they had to pay damages of SEK 400,000.
so that’s about what olof managed to accomplish business wise
but there is another story about olof
a story much more well documented
and that is not as easy for olof to sweep under the carpet
namely the story of when at the end of in 2020 ,he chose to become relevant again in sweden and unlike his business,it was definitely something that he suceeded in
he appeared in various interviews and in various YouTube channels
these interviews got extremely many views olof was undeniably an interesting character and at this time also,not everyone knew he was a fraud
so to hear him talk about how he helped donald trump win the presidential election …….
….or how he had come in contact with pablo escobar’s brother was incredibly interesting.
the whole story that olof built about himself was interesting and it was also difficult to know what was true and not .
Anis Don Demina who was the first to take him on YouTube himself said this in his video .
“this guy w’re going to meet today one hell of a special person one hell of a character and based on what i’ve heard about him before and what he’s told to me it soundds like everything he says isn’t true ,everything sounds like lies upon lies upon lies,in general he sounds like a stereotypical mythoman
but at the same time there are ferraris there are rolls-royce things i’ve seen with my own eyes, pictures, videos, and itäs very hard to take in what ‘s true what’s not i can’t either determine if he is a scammer or not or what is shade and not what is scam and honestly i have no idea.”
and an interesting detail in the video with anis is that olof ends that video with a shoutout to joakim lundell
” …and so third shoutout the last one is to jockiBoi because you sweden’s craziest and because you are friends with this lira”
-olof kGustafsson
but many thought that olof’a stories sounded too good to be true and that was also ecactly what became his fall , because it made people start doing reashearch to try to find out if it was really true or not .
and pretty quickly you could find evidence that olof seemed to be lying or exaggerating a lot of his story
after the interviews he did with Anis Don Demina and dialogic people reacted to him answering the same questions differently
comments like :
“Anis interviewed him someone who listened to both and hears that he says different things to the same questions .”
“an enterprising entrepreneur’s mythomaniac, the guy is too smart for his own good and lives in his castle in the air for real”
“you notice very quickly that he is very sick myhomaniac and narcissist ,he does not dare stay at the question that is asked and answer it so he rolls on like a steam train in order not to be caught,sick guy,really hope he will get help”
” empty barrels rattle mostly i was taught as youngster”
and it was perhaps precisely because he began to be questioned and exposed as a mythomaniac that a few months later olof went from a relatively calm attitude with anis and dialogic .
to now appear on Real Lokal ‘s channel with a completely different attitude because he started in that video to throw shit at everything and everyone
included jan emanuel and joakim lundell who he gave a shout out to a few months earlier.
and that olof now started behaving like a crap saying starting things for example he said that the only way to get laid in sweden was to get the girls drunk ……
and this was not directly in his favor ,the more people he gave in in to and the more sick stuff he said the more people looked for proof on his lies and there was plenty to find.
it would almost be easier to make a list of things that olof hasn’t lied about .
but to give some examples of olof’s mythomania he said when he was both with anis and Dialogiskt that he became a millionaire as 16- year old on his series of newspaper companies, this was however quite easy to disprove by checking his father’s company’s books.
furthermore, olof has always beenzero -rated in sweden he also said that, as you know that klarna froze the payment because of their marketing, when actually because they suspeceted fraud.
he gave local $10,000 which happened to be fake but which he claims was real………
he also shared a picture on instagram where he bragged that he had been invited to donal trump’s inauguration when he became president.
he did it by uploading pictures of his invitation card the problem for olof was that every cards have individual numbers and the very ones that Olof had happened to have posted on Ebay before.
and there was much much more …..
bascally everything he said was either a calm or gross exaggeration and because he lied, said sick things and jumped on a lot of people .
olof became very unpopular in sweden
not least after he ,real lokal and el lobbo
made a video where they had a conversation with a women who accused jocke and jonna for sexual harassment
something that later turned out to be fake and the women in the conversation claimed to be tricked into lying about jocke and jonna
but olof in any case managed to become very relevant here , he was was for a while sweden’s most googled person
and even SVT chose to make a documentary about him.
but his relevance didn’t last very long , people didn’t appreaciate that he lied and behaved badly
so he went from getting well over half a million views per video he was in in the end didn’t even get over 100, 000 views in the end he was just known for being a mythomaniac and a fraud
and the last time olof had any kind of relevance while he was still at large was when he started arguing with joakim lundell’s brother chrippa in marbella
an argument that ruined olof’s image even more because he tried to present himself as a bit of a gangster but after the argument with chrippa
olof sent a message where he says he has reported chrippa to the police for that he hit El lobbo not something a real gangster would have probably done
after this olof’s hype died completely his own social media didn’t even manange to get over 10 ,000 followers
but then olof would become relevant again …..
but this time people were happy that he became relevant .
on december 4, 2023 spanish police together with american authorities carried out a raid on olof and his wife’s home in marbella.
and through olof’s wife,svetlana found out that he risked over 2000 years in prison
this news hit like a bomb every newspaper wrote articles about it and you could read that that the reason for arrest was that he was suspected of serious money laundering,smuggling ,fraud and document falsification
the smuggling was about him being suspected of participating in a criminal organization that illegally trades in works of arts,among other things three picasso paintings are said to have been found in the tailgate of olof k Gustafsson’s car in france 2020
and the frauds for which he is suspected are the hundreds of people who olof blew the whistle when he sold is escobar products.
and after this arrest in spain olof managed to get in in touch with svenska dagbladet and he thensaid that the USA wants me and has requested my arrest through interpool they suspects me of 35 counts of international money laundering and 41 counts of money laundering the extraordinary thing is that the potential sentence is 2050 years in prison .
olof also says that the US only wants to get to him because he knows where pablo escobar’s old fortune is.
” they just wants to put me there because i know where more than 320 different bank accounts belong to pablo escobar’s fortne, i don’t want to be extradited to the US, sit there and rot and be forced to give up these details
i’m pretty sure sweden won’t torture me for these numbers to pablo’s old bank accounts ,nobody wants to give me 2050 years because i might have committed fraud or something like that . this is politically charged, it’s about me sitting on this information .”
but olof had a few last aces up his sleeve to try to avoid being extradited from spain to US.
the first thing he tried was to report himself through swedish lawyer sebastian scheiman for serious fraud in sweden . but despite olof’s confession this investigation was closed
but even though olof’s first plan to avoid the US failed , he tried a knew trick namely to sue the swedish state and in this lavsuit it says a lot of sick stories some are probably just from olof’s imagination .
it says,among other things that olof requests that he be handed over to sweden immediately because if he is not , he risks ending up in a so -called supermax prison without any possibility of parole
and that this would mean inhumane and degrading treatment and punishment and olof and his lawyer believe that , in addition to this ,there is a risk that olof will be killed if he is extradited to United states meaning that he is at a risk of dying
you can also read about a meeting that olof believes should have owned aropund after olof wanted to make a whistleblower claim after roberto had given him information about pablo’s old bank accounts
so ,he wanted to report this to the authorities and thus get to keep 30% of the money himself and at this meeting olof then meant that american authorities wanted olof to become an informant for the authorities and help them spy on roberto escobar
you can read that after olof gustafsson gave an account of his life and some information about the escobar business empire ,among other things,that there was 320 bank accounts and that 77 million dollars was the smallest and that he had company documents in his possession regarding companies in which roberto escobar and his sister figured demaded authorities that he would be an confidential informant to them .
you can also see the USA’s request for why they want Olof extradited that it will be at the beginning of jul 2019 that olof together with others started doing fraud and money laundering connecting with purported consumer products they sold by escobar inc.
they write that the products that escobar inc will blow people with
escobar flamethrower,escobar fold , escobar fold 2, escobar gold 11 pro and escobar cash
USA also show how they believe the money from the scam has been moved around to different bank accounts there are several different from several different countries mentioned in the document
and there,and there are quite large sums that olof moves around sometimes it is $ 10,000sometimes it is $ 20,000 sometimes it’s $42,000 and sometimes it’s even $307,000
i total it seems like 115 transfers which olof is supposed to have done between different banks .
you can also see approximately for how much in total olof is supposed to have sold products for.
the flamethrower ,they apparently have sold 236 pieces of which is approximately $ 60,000 and for olof’s phone scams escobar inc is supposed to have received 2955 orders to total value over 1,1 million dollars
so olof has definitely made some money on these scams, but this lawsuit did not work for olof for the Stockholm district court rejected the request without even taking the lawsuit up for consideration
and after sweden neglected to take olof home even though spain gave sweden the chance…..
the spanish court has now decided that olof should be extradited to the United States
but even this did not stop Olof from continuing to fight
because right when Spain approved the USA’s request for extradition, he applied for asylum in Spain and therefore he cannot be extradited to the USA right now
his lawyer told expressen that the extradition is paused pending a decision on asylum issues
but that Olof would succeed in getting asylum in Spain is not particularly likely
spain has already approved the US’s request for estradition and they consider the US to be a fairly safe country
and olof has probably only managed to by himself some time through the asylum application
and olof’s spanish laywer said in a podcast that svenska dagbladet has ade that he thinks their chances of actually succeeding in getting asylum is 3 %
olof also reportedly explained to the journalist who made this podcast that it was after olof managed to find out who was behind an assassination attempt on robert escobar that he found out about the money.
the story of how olof got access to these documents is just like so mich else in his life almost improbable and impossible to verify
olof says he managed to find out who was behind an assassination attempt on roberto escobar in Medellín after that their relationship deepened and then roberto is said to have chose to give olof the great trust and preserve the secret documents of the escobar family
but in the lawsuit olof said that it was the lawsuit against netflix that gave him accesss to the money
the lawsuit against netflix became however counterproductive as it made it more difficult for escobar inc to do business during the ongoing process
on a vistit to colombia in 2016 roberto escobar offered to solve the problem by telling olof K Gustafsson about the dtails regarding a swiss bank account with a balance of 77 million dollars
this gave olof K Gustafsson access to the money
so right now it seems in any case that olof is staying in spain on borrowed time
his wife svetalana sometimes posts pictures on instagram where you can tell that she and their child have video calls with olof .
and otherwise you can see that olof wife and child seem to be on the move constantly
while he is locked up and also risks being locked up for life and enver again get to meet them out in the freedom .
but despite this Olof does not seem to have regretted it