Hoffmann's plan to infiltrate prison through a staged arrest

Hoffmann's plan to infiltrate prison through a staged arrest makes imprisonment the entry point to an undercover takeover of the prison drug market. Piet Hoffmann proposes to enter Aspsås prison not as an acknowledged police informant but as a convicted amphetamine dealer, then use an established criminal identity and Wojtek's supply channels to displace the existing dealers. The scheme is designed to turn a sentence into operational access: Hoffmann will build authority inside, while the organization supplies the drugs needed to take control.

Design of the staged arrest

The operation begins with the prison network already partly mapped. The deputy CEO reports four Wojtek members inside Aspsås prison and three each in Hall prison and Kumla prison. Although they are housed in different sections, they can communicate. Hoffmann is to be arrested within a week for a crime serious enough to secure a sentence at one of these institutions. The plan specifies two months in prison before he is finished with the assignment, while the deputy CEO agrees to give him the time he needs.

Hoffmann sets out a route into custody based on three kilos of amphetamine. He will be caught carrying the drugs, questioned, and plead guilty, while claiming to have acted alone. The quantity is meant to make the case a priority and produce a substantial sentence. By accepting that sentence rather than waiting for it to take effect through the ordinary process, he expects to move quickly from arrest to the appropriate prison. His estimate is that, if events proceed smoothly, he will be inside within two weeks. The staged arrest therefore depends not on avoiding punishment but on directing it: the conviction is part of the cover that gives him access.

From prison access to market control

The intended takeover has two stages. First, Hoffmann will eliminate the existing competition. Then Wojtek will supply amphetamine through its own channels, beginning with the remaining seventy-eight kilos approved by Henryk Bak. The initial low price—fifty kronor per gram against a prevailing three hundred—is meant to draw the prison market to the new supplier. Once Wojtek has secured control, the price can be raised, potentially to five or six hundred kronor per gram. The plan treats price not as a fixed feature of the trade but as an instrument: undercut rivals to gain customers, then increase the return after competitors have been removed.

Hoffmann asks for three days without contact so that he can take in enough drugs and deal with the competition himself. From the fourth day onward, he wants one kilo of amphetamine delivered each week through Wojtek's channels. He is to oversee its use and prevent anyone from hiding or storing a supply that could become a rival source. The division of responsibility is clear: the organization supplies and communicates from outside; Hoffmann establishes control within the prison. The operation is modeled on earlier prison takeovers in Norway and Finland, with Oslo prison and Riihimaki identified as starting points for those campaigns.

Building a credible inmate identity

The plan's success requires Hoffmann to be accepted as a prisoner before he can act as a dealer. Although he has never been inside Aspsås prison, he has mapped its buildings from the church tower and, with Erik Wilson's help, learned about the prisoners and staff in Block G. At arrival, the research gives way to the physical routines of incarceration: guards escort him through security, search him, issue prison clothes, and leave him in a waiting room. Ten days pass in highly restricted conditions, with most of each day spent alone in a small cell. The operation's access is therefore purchased through the very confinement Hoffmann has studied from outside.

When the unit is due to return from its workshop, library, and classroom, Hoffmann places himself in the television corner where every prisoner will see him. Rather than wait quietly for approval, he occupies a familiar chair, takes marked cards, and begins solitaire at another prisoner's table. These calculated breaches of etiquette announce that he is not afraid to be noticed. At supper, two older inmates challenge him to show his papers. Hoffmann lets the exchange proceed instead of allowing his Wojtek allies to intervene, using the confrontation to establish himself in front of the unit.

The cover has already been prepared beyond his own performance. Stefan Lygas and Karol Tomasz Penderecki have spoken about his arrival and helped obtain copies of criminal records, prison records, intelligence files, and a recent judgment through Stefan's lawyer. Those documents reinforce the identity Hoffmann claims. They are practical credentials in a prison where reputation and status cannot be separated from the information others possess about a new arrival. The carefully assembled dossier and Hoffmann's public behavior work together to make the fabricated criminal identity legible to the other inmates.

Initial success and the plan's danger

The takeover begins to produce results: Hoffmann later reports that he has felled the three main dealers in Aspsås prison with forty-two grams of manufactured amphetamine at thirty-percent strength. The reports have reached Warsaw and the deputy CEO, who recognize that the next stage can begin. The detail marks the change from preparation to action, but it also shows how much of the operation depends on Hoffmann's ability to act without immediate contact or outside intervention.

That isolation is not merely tactical. During the early days, Hoffmann sleeps with makeshift precautions arranged around his cell, aware that an attack could come when guards cannot see or hear. Later, when he believes he is about to be exposed, the prison's limited geography leaves little room to escape; he can only demand transfer to voluntary isolation. The operation's own structure thus contains a severe weakness: the undercover agent must become visible enough to command the market while remaining undiscovered as an informant.

The betrayal comes from within the group he had counted on. Hoffmann realizes that one of four people associated with his protection and possible escape has exposed him. The revelation reverses the meaning of the network that made the staged arrest workable. Wojtek's members inside the prison had helped prepare his arrival and support his position, but their access also gives one of them the capacity to compromise him. The plan succeeds in placing Hoffmann in Aspsås and initiating the takeover; it cannot guarantee that the people who make the cover credible will remain trustworthy.