Man jailed over alleged EV charging subscription fraud

A 35-year-old man has been remanded in custody for four weeks over alleged large-scale fraud involving electric vehicle charging subscriptions, DR reports. The case allegedly involves LS Busser, a flex-traffic provider recently criticised by DR’s consumer programme Kontant.

Police allege that the man created 573 private subscriptions with a charging operator on behalf of LS Busser. The subscriptions were allegedly used to charge vehicles belonging to the company or its subcontractors, without the electricity being paid for.

According to Funen Police, more than 11,000 charging sessions were carried out over a period of more than a year starting in May 2025. The charging operator lost more than 1.5 million kroner as a result, police said.

“Police take this form of fraud very seriously, and I am therefore very pleased that we were able to arrest the man on Thursday evening,” police inspector Michael Lichtenstein of Funen Police said in a statement.

He said the investigation was continuing and that further arrests could not be ruled out. Police therefore had no further comment on the case.

The 35-year-old denies the charges, according to Fyens Stiftstidende.

LS Busser director Omran Khaled Abdel Rahman told the newspaper that he did not understand why the company had been linked to the case. He said LS Busser did not own or use electric vehicles and had no subcontractors operating electric vehicles for the company.

DR said it had contacted LS Busser for comment but had not received a response.

The company has previously faced criticism over missing child-safety certificates and poor safety conditions in flex buses transporting sick and vulnerable passengers, as well as bankruptcy petitions and unpaid driver wages.