Hell's Angels tax scam stopped

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish and Danish police have caught 60 members of the violent Danish biker gangs Hell's Angels and Bandidos they say registered fake addresses in Sweden to evade taxes, claim welfare benefits and buy cheaper bikes.


Police in Malmo in southern Sweden said on Friday many of the bikers involved were hardened criminals. Biker turf wars in the 1990s included grenade attacks and a dozen murders and last year a former Bandido was killed by a car bomb outside Copenhagen.


"Not many of those registered here were actually living here physically," police commissioner Peter Tjader in Malmo, which is linked to Copenhagen by a bridge, told Swedish public service radio. "So there was reason to believe they were going to use their registration here for other purposes."


A Danish court has started legal proceedings against some of the bikers involved.