Iver Iversen—The Twin

Iver Iversen’s alleged relationship with the Twin is a concealed financial partnership at the intersection of legitimate property business, organized crime, and compromised law enforcement. Simon accuses Iver and Iversen Property of helping the Twin disguise drug and trafficking proceeds through commercial real estate, but Iver denies knowing him; Ab Lofthus’s diary later reveals that the police-mole mystery involved two corrupt officers rather than one. Together, the accusations and the diary expose a network whose strength lies not only in money but in the ability to keep its participants and structure difficult to see.

The Allegation and the Denial

In a confrontation with Iver, Simon draws a direct connection between Iver and the Twin. He says that Iver knows who the Twin is and alleges that Iversen Property did business with him. According to Simon, Iver helped launder money from the Twin’s drug and trafficking activities, while the Twin supplied fictitious losses that enabled Iver to reduce his tax liabilities by hundreds of millions of kroner.

Iver denies knowing anything about the Twin. When Simon insists that he has evidence of their cooperation, Iver challenges him with a practical question: if the evidence existed, why had the Serious Fraud Office never brought a case against him? The exchange establishes the central tension in their relationship as it appears on the page. Simon presents Iver’s innocence as a lie supported by institutional failure; Iver points to that failure as a reason to doubt Simon’s accusation.

Simon answers that the Serious Fraud Office had been compromised from within while he worked there. His claim makes the lack of a prosecution part of the alleged cover rather than proof that no arrangement existed. The accusation therefore implicates more than a private business relationship: it suggests that the process meant to investigate financial crime was itself obstructed.

How the Property Transactions Worked

Simon describes the alleged laundering as a sequence of commercial property deals. The Twin, he says, used criminal proceeds to buy property from Iver and later sell it back to him at a much higher price. The paperwork made the Twin appear to have earned a legitimate profit, allowing him to place drug money in a bank without prompting questions from the tax authorities. The same transactions created an apparent loss for Iver that could be offset against future profits.

The arrangement, as Simon lays it out, gives each participant a different benefit. The Twin gains a financial record that can disguise the source of his money; Iver gains a tax advantage; and the transactions acquire the outward appearance of ordinary business. Simon describes it as a mutually profitable scheme, but its apparent balance depends on concealed criminal proceeds and fabricated accounting. The property market does not merely shelter the illicit money: in Simon’s account, it supplies the respectable-looking transactions through which that money can be made to appear legitimate.

The Twin as Rumor and Network

Before Simon names the Twin to Iver, he recalls the long-running rumor of a police mole who leaked information to the person running much of the drug and sex trafficking in Oslo. At the time, people talked about both the mole and the crime boss, but no one produced evidence proving that either existed. The uncertainty surrounding the Twin was therefore part of the story’s investigative problem: a figure associated with immense criminal reach could remain publicly unconfirmed.

Simon’s exchange with Iver repeats that pattern. Iver denies knowing the Twin, and Simon notes that people in the Serious Fraud Office had heard denials so often that some began to wonder whether the Twin was only a myth. The repeated failure to establish the figure does not simply leave a gap in the evidence; it shows how secrecy and institutional compromise can make the existence of a powerful criminal actor seem doubtful even to people tasked with investigating him.

The diary of Ab Lofthus later supplies a crucial correction to the police’s assumption that the mole must be one person. Ab writes that the Twin has a plant in the force, then explains that there are two corrupt officers. Each can provide the other with an alibi when the other is active, making both less likely to be suspected. The diary describes their betrayal as extending across drug dealing, human trafficking, and murder. This disclosure gives the hidden structure a specific form: the difficulty of identifying the mole arose not only from inadequate proof but from a partnership designed to frustrate suspicion.

Evidence, Exposure, and Significance

Simon’s request to Iver is not limited to obtaining an admission. After laying out the alleged property scheme, he says that he wants to meet the Twin. Iver again denies knowing him. Their conversation ends without a meeting or a public resolution of the charge in the supplied scene; instead, Simon’s demand makes clear that identifying the person behind the financial and criminal network remains an active objective.

The later diary entry changes the meaning of the earlier uncertainty. The police rumor about a single mole was incomplete: the account reveals a pair whose cooperation made each harder to expose. The diary also shows the corruption as a relationship rather than an isolated betrayal, sustained through shared criminal activity and a method of mutual cover. Against that wider pattern, Simon’s allegation about Iver adds a financial connection to the same hidden system, though Iver’s guilt remains an accusation in their confrontation rather than a confession.

The relationship thus joins three kinds of concealment: transactions that make criminal money resemble profit, tax losses that make private advantage resemble ordinary accounting, and corrupt officers whose paired alibis make police infiltration resemble the work of a single elusive informant. The Twin’s apparent power depends on those layers reinforcing one another. Simon’s accusation names Iver as a commercial participant in that system; Ab’s diary reveals why the police could talk about a mole for years without understanding the arrangement that protected it.