Jan Krogh Jensen (23 August 1958 – 16 July 1996), nicknamed "Face", was a Norwegian-born Danish

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and

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who was a member of the

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and

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motorcycle clubs.

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Born in Norway and raised in Denmark, Jensen became a member of the

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chapter of the

, led by Michael Garcia "Lerche" Olsen, during the 1980s. Olsen had previously been president of the

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chapter, but left that post in 1985 as a result of an internal dispute within the club. Initially, an attempt was made to resolve the disagreements by allowing Olsen to head the newly-formed Helsingør chapter. The arrangement did not last, however, and the following year, the chapter was disbanded and Olsen was expelled from the club. After the dissolution of the Hells Angels in Helsingør, Jensen became associated with the biker community across the

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strait in Sweden. Initially, he was a member of the White Trash MC in

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, where he had the role of leader and organizer in collaboration with Michael Ljunggren. At the time, the White Trash's ambitions were moving toward admission into the Hells Angels. The club disbanded following a police operation which resulted in Ljunggren's imprisonment, and both Jensen and Ljunggren later joined the newly-founded Morbids MC in 1991. The Morbids were offered a path to Hells Angels membership on the condition that they merge with the Rebels MC, a rival biker group with whom they had previously clashed. Rejecting the offer, they instead aligned with the

, whose only chapters in Scandinavia at the time were in

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. Jensen formally moved to Sweden in 1993, residing at an address in Vallåkra near

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. The Morbids became a probationary Bandidos chapter in January 1994 before formally patching over on 28 January 1995. The Morbids' refusal to capitulate to the larger Hells Angels was part of a chain of events that led to the beginning of the

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. Michael Garcia Olsen became president of the Bandidos' Helsingborg chapter, which was based out of a dairy farm-turned-clubhouse in nearby Kattarp, following the murder of Michael Ljunggren in July 1995.

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Jensen and Michael Garcia "Lerche" Olsen were on a visit to Norway when, at approximately 4:00 pm on 15 July 1996, they, along with two members of the

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Bandidos chapter, were involved in a brawl with members of the Hells Angels prospect club Customizers MC on Karl Johans gate in central

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. The fight began after a Customizers member overturned the Bandidos' parked motorcycles. Police quickly arrived on the scene and halted the violence before it could escalate. The Bandidos bikers were ordered away from the scene, while the police took personal details of the other party. At around 8:00 pm that evening, the four Bandidos were ambushed north of

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while on a motorcycle run. Jensen was struck in the head with a bullet fired from a semi-automatic 7.65 caliber pistol, which penetrated his temple and became lodged five centimeters behind his right eye. He fell from his motorcycle and an ambulance was called at 8:22 pm. Jensen was unconscious but still alive when he was taken from the scene in ambulance to

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in Oslo, where he was pronounced dead two hours later. He was 37-years-old.Ble feil mann likvidert?
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'' (21 February 2015) Police believe that the prior incident in Oslo was the cause of the shooting. It is suspected that Olsen, to whom Jensen was serving as a bodyguard, was the intended target. On 19 July, a car occupied by a Customizers member and a companion was targeted in a

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in Oslo city centre. No injuries were reported.''Issues in Global Crime''

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(1998) Two people associated with the Bandidos were charged in the case, and police believe the attack was carried out in retaliation for the killing of Jensen.Her er politiets fiasko-liste
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'' (12 October 1998) The Customizers were granted full membership to the Hells Angels later that year, becoming the club's Oslo chapter. A Hells Angels member from Drammen was charged with Jensen's murder in December 1997.

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s data revealed that the suspect's mobile phone was in the vicinity of Jensen's whereabouts on the evening of 15 July 1996, moving from Oslo to Sollihøgda and

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. At 8:24 pm, two minutes after an ambulance was called to attend to Jensen, an incoming call was registered. The mobile phone struck the base station at

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, which covered the scene of the murder. Upon a search of the suspect's car, an

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, police discovered a spent

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underneath the driver's seat.

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concluded that four shell casings found at the scene of the murder originated from shots fired with the same pistol. The Hells Angel denied having used the car on the day of the shooting, and claimed it was parked for sale at a car company. However, the police discovered that the car had stopped by a petrol station near the Customizers' clubhouse in Strømsveien, Oslo on the day in question. Although the court found that it had been proven that the accused was in the area, and that the discovery of the empty cartridge in the car could link him to the killing, he benefitted from

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and was acquitted of premeditated murder, and of complicity in Jensen's death, on 11 June 1998. The investigation into the murder was closed in 2000.Bandidos-drapet
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