This week, the court in the Danish city of Odense sentenced Amira Smajić (37), originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, to 18 months in prison for fraud and forgery.
This is just one of a series of cases for which Amira Smajić is charged. And who is she actually and how did the girl who escaped from Bosnia and Herzegovina manage to get a huge fortune?
Namely, the story of Amira Smajić begins in a completely different place. Namely, as a five-year-old girl, she came to Denmark in the fall of 1993, together with 350 bh. refugees who were then accommodated in the Funen refugee camp, where she grew up.
Refugees from BiH are then moved to the town of Nesbihoved-Broby. Here begins her journey from a helpless girl to the “cold queen” as she was called by the criminals she helped to evade taxes.
Her father fled Bosnia and Herzegovina before the rest of the family. After a difficult period, they are finally united in Hungary, from where they go to Denmark with borrowed money. Amira Smajić remembers that period well.
“There was always a lack of money in my family, we never had enough of it. But we managed to move to central Odense after three years of arrival.
It was then that her ambition to earn money was born. Namely, she believed that with a good education she could get money. She first enrolled in Tornbjerg Gymnasium, where she was even interviewed on TV as a student. Those who knew her from that period say that she was a very ordinary teenager, whom no one would think would engage in illegal activities. However, a journalist’s question during a visit to her school already exposed her ambitions. Namely, when asked what she will do when she finishes school, she briefly said: “I will earn money”.
According to the Danish media, she was an extremely good student, so it was not a problem for her to continue her education at the University of South Odense, where she graduated as a lawyer in commercial law.
Then he is employed by the controversial debt advisor Johnny Hast Hansen, who has already been convicted of serious fraud, writes the newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende.
There she “forged” her trade, and then became independent and moved to Copenhagen where she started working with criminals from biker groups such as Bandidos, Hells Angels, Satudarah, LFT and NNV. She also advised them how to cheat the system. Allegedly, during her 10-year career, she helped criminals embezzle billions.
That’s when she started making serious money. At the peak of her “consulting career” she earned hundreds of thousands of crowns a month, most of which was “dirty money”. She had a big problem how to get it into the legal channels, but then again, that was her job. Allegedly, at one point she owned three Audis, a Bentley and a luxurious apartment in Copenhagen. She spent the rest of the money on expensive jewelry and watches.
She was reportedly known as the “cold queen” among the Danish criminal underworld, and she explains why:
“They thought I was cold, but also powerful and intelligent. “That’s why they called me that, because I usually never reacted to their provocations, I never showed compassion, I was really cold in almost every situation,” she said.
By the way, it was Amira who, as a mole, discovered the connection between the criminal underworld and a number of well-trained lawyers who, among other things, help criminals in tax evasion and money laundering, which she also did. But she realized that everything must come to an end, which is why she decided to talk about everything.
“I realized that I will never get out of this life if I don’t do something,” says Amira Smajić.
(Vijesti.ba)
