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The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmarks self-image
2025-04-08 05:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
The trap was laid in a rented office: two rooms in downtown Copenhagen, furnished without a whisper of Scandi style. If it wasnt for a Frida Kahlo print on one wall, the premises might have felt as impersonal and stark as a confessional. That, in any event, was what it became. For six months, beginning in mid-2022, a parade of people members of motorcycle gangs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, real-estate barons, politicians trooped through to recount their sins to Amira Smajic. They didnt come for expiation. They knew Smajic to be one of them an outlaw, and in her particular case, a business lawyer so skilled at laundering money that shed enabled a couple of billion kroner in financial crime over the previous decade. They called her the Ice Queen, because she showed not a flicker of regret for what she did.In her office, Smajics visitors bragged about dodging tax, bribing officials or exploiting the bankruptcy code. She offered them coffee and coaxed forth their confidences. Six cam... [ more ]
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