They fight over the gold bars – after the unlikely find

The craftsmen are on site in the villa at the beginning of October last year.

On behalf of two-thirds of the JLC trio, Carl Déman and Lucas Simonsson, they are here to renovate the kitchen and bathroom, and have headed up to the attic to investigate the condition of the raw sheeting.

There they discover what looks like old moisture damage, next to an upholstered shelf that they choose to pull away.

Behind the disc they discover a hidden space.

• Back there was the green rubber mat that was on the floor. Then we lifted it, inside were the bags and what the gold was in, continues the craftsman, when he explains everything to the police.
• We checked where it was, were shocked and nervous. We brought it because there would be more craftsmen. We looked up what to do with it. It is ten kilos of gold and four kilos of silver, says the other craftsman in his interrogation.

The silver should actually turn out to be platinum.

Now begins what will become a battle between four parties: Who has the right to the gold?

The buyers can get the gold out
There are 11 million kroner in the form of gold and platinum bars at stake, according to Göteborgs-Posten, which was the first to report on the find.

Right now it is in the police’s custody, because an investigation was first launched into a suspected serious money laundering crime, which has now been closed.

Now it is being investigated who will get the seizure.

• It will be decided within a few weeks. But then it’s just about who will get the gold that is seized – what I think everyone is more interested in is who has the right to it and who will get it in the end, says Viktor Österberg.

He is a lawyer, and together with lawyer Linda Friberger represents the person who sold the house to the JLC duo Carl Deman and Lucas Simonsson.

According to Viktor Österberg, the buyers would be able to get the seized gold, but a civil legal case about who actually has the right to it will still take place if one of the other parties chooses to start one.

Four parties have claimed the gold:

The “craftsmen”, the two who found the gold in the attic.

The “JLC duo”, Carl Déman and Lucas Simonsson, who own the house in which the gold was found since they bought it for SEK 7.8 million in August last year.

The Seller”, who sold the house to the JLC duo and who believes the gold was hidden in the attic by his parents and gifted to him through a gift deed.

“The estate”, the seller’s two siblings who believe that the gold instead belongs to the estate of their, and the seller’s, dead mother.

The letter that can decide
According to lawyer Viktor Österberg, there are several things that indicate that the gold belongs to the seller of the house, including the gold bar in the same number series that the seller found among his mother’s possessions.

• We are convinced that the gold belonged to his parents. We will also be able to prove that. If we succeed in that, the gold is either his or the estate’s, but not the buyers’ or the artisans’. I think everyone agrees on that.
• What the buyers and craftsmen do not agree on right now is that the gold belonged to his parents. As for the estate, they agree that the gold belonged to the parents but not that it was given as a gift to our client.

But a gift letter from the mother to the seller of the house is said to be able to prove that it was given to him.

In the deed of gift, the mother writes that she is leaving two properties to the son as a gift, “and all existing fixtures and chattels on the Properties”. GP has previously reported this.

“A bloody story – to be continued”
Expressen has contacted Carl Déman and Lucas Simonsson with questions via email, but has not received an answer. In the latest episode of JLC’s podcast “Between Heaven and Earth”, however, they talk about the first time they were contacted by the police.

• I thought it was a joke at first, says Carl Déman in the podcast, about when he was called about the gold.

The police then came to the comedian duo’s office.

• The police officers who were here were relatively young, we started looking around for cameras, says Jonas Fagerström, who is part of the JLC but does not himself participate in the fight for the gold.

In the podcast, Carl Déman says that they will not reveal any details until the matter is settled legally:

• It’s a hell of a story anyway. To be continued.

Source: Expressen