Swedish fraudster jailed in Ethiopia
Published: 10 Jun 11 09:51 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/34272/20110610/
A Swedish woman who has been on the run since 2007 has received a 25-year prison sentence in Ethiopia on charges of fraud and human trafficking, Sweden's TV4 news reports.
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Ingela Jansson, one of the Sweden's most notorious fraudsters, was arrested in Ethiopia in January 2010, having absconded from Sweden in 2007.
In mid-May, an Ethiopian court handed Jansson a 25-year prison sentence, convicting her of 20 counts of fraud and human trafficking.
A 35-year-old Swedish accomplice was also convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison.
"Both have appealed some of the points on which they were convicted. The embassy is there following the case and visiting the Swedes in prison," foreign ministry spokesperson Karin Nylund told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
The 30-year-old from western Sweden is well known in police circles in Sweden.
Her criminal activities first came to light in 2003 when she was charged with fraud after leasing cars in her boyfriend’s name, then selling them on the black market.
In a bid to receive a reduced sentence during her trial in Sweden, Jansson testified against the so-called Naser league, and was provided with police protection and a new identity.
However further criminal activities came to light in the ensuing years and she was eventually arrested once again in 2006. This time she was accused of fraud amounting to millions of kronor related to several incidents of deception involving cars, hotels and cash.
The case came to court in 2007 but the day before sentencing, Jansson absconded and was sentenced to two and a half years in jail in her absence.
She was re-arrested in Ethiopia last year and her trial started last summer.
Swedish prosecutors are still working to have Jansson extradited to Sweden, but according to prosecutor Jakob Holmberg told Aftonbaldet that Ethiopian authorities are waiting to process the request until after legal proceedings in Ethiopia are completed.
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Thanks Ethiopia for taking back one of your own who should never arrived to Sweden ( or be born in Sweden ) by some parents who should have stayed where they came from!
Can we make it a life time sentence so we never have to deal with her again?
As long as she stays in Africa we don't have to waste any tax money on her I hope - rot in those jails and hopefully never come out!
I am not supried by the posters claiming she is not Swedish, according to these ladies and "gents" unless your hair has been bleached, which would exclude 90% of Stockholm , your not Swedish.
You so called white people are only fooling yourself.
"She doesn't look very Swedish to me!
Thanks Ethiopia for taking back one of your own who should never arrived to Sweden".
You don't sound like very Swedish to me,as Swedes are mostly respectful as to what they say.
Why?
What do you mean by "doesn't look Swedish" or "Swedish being used loosely". If she is Swedish then Swedish she is, there is no half-way, looseness or slack. Being Swedish, i assume like all other nationalities is not endowed based on appearance.
Her name, which is perhaps a reasonable way to judge is she is a native born Swede is definately a Swedish name.
My other half is Swedish and I would be very upset to know if the "Swedishness" of our children will be estimated by some appearance standards.
Shame on you two, this is indeed a new low.
I don't think I referred to your post,when I wrote my comments.I wrote to @what
not you. did u have a bad day to insult me like that?sorry for you!
Sweden like other countries have its own criminals, theives ect like any other country.
"hahahahahahahahahaha,hooooooooooo, gagagagagagag ehhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhh eheheheheheheheh,I cant help myself but to laugh my guts out.but you all should remember its June 10 2011, The world is a small village,and let us learn to think ahead of our time,we dont leave in APE planent.hahahahahahahahhhhahahahahahahahahahahaha "
She doesnot look like an ape. Obvious there are people who need skull surgery oops i meant brain surgery to heal a sick heart.
Do you ever have anything to say that is not bigoted and racist? I really feel sorry for the two of you.
Apology accepted! BTW I am not a man.
A Swede gets 25 years for fraud in Ethiopia.
What is wrong with this picture?
And before some politically correct and silly person attacks the use of word "negro", know that that's exactly what Martin Luther King called himself and his people.
Nevertheless,
Martin Luther King was a great, great, great Blackman, however, even he was starting to change his mind on the method he was preaching during the 60's.
Rise don't be a keyboard gangster, because one day what you say on the keyboard may comeout your mouth in real life and you may not enjoy the repercussions. Not a threat, just dont want you to get hurt. A lot of African live here in Sweden and many of them may not be as dum as you.
Every answer to a question should be commensurate to the question ask. If you ask a poor question, you should recieve a poor answer, if you ask a good question, you should receive a good answer, if you ask a great question you should receive a great question.
It would have been more appropriate to ask what has the N-word come to mean, because it's a fallacy to thnk that something that means one thing one year is going mean the same exact thing the next year, or even 30 years from now. At one point the N-word meant one thing to Black African people.
However, some young Black kids will say it's a term of endearment, which in my opinion is nonsense. I hear many white people bring that point up, I still find it odd that many think that if some Black youth use that word, that it gives white people a green light to think that they can utilize an argument, stating why can't I/
Highly don't recommend you do that, especially in New York @Syfftel, even in highly policed Manhattan. It's hot and lot of Black people find the word worthy of killing over if uttered by a whte person. But hey you are your own man.
What's up blood?
I never seem to have problems using the n!gger word around negros, at
least here in Sweden anyway. In America, if a cracker uses n!gger around blacks, they had better be locked and loaded.
I guess blacks in Sweden just aren't hung up on slavery issues like the ones in America are.
At least my great grandpa treated his slaves quite well, and to this day, those decendents have carried our families surname with pride.
I degress now to the notion that the woman should be spending her jail sentence other than a Swedish prison, for a very long time. She looks alittle Scandinavian to me, and quite sure she enjoys the pork sausage now and again : )
I'll gladly change that perception. I always walk across the lila bron in Sodermalm on saturdays, can't miss me, big tall Black guy, I invite you to call me such a name. Keyboard gangaster. Around 12-1, I always walk their, always.
I reckon OBM is a 3 foot dwarf with halitosis
Not that I have to explain myself to anyone, especially not one who's insulting. But oh well, I simply used a word to describe whom I meant. That's all. And choosed a word that Luther King himself were using.
But as usual some negros still are seeing themselves as victims. Reminds me of bit of the Lappish people in northern Sweden. Some of them are pathetically acting like "poor" victims as well. And racist Lappish whom are projecting their own racism on Swedes calling them racists. Etc.
If I would have meant to insult anyone I'd used the word nigger, which I didn't. I'm aware of negro's horrible, horrible history. And that the Civil Rights Act came as late as 1964 (much thanks to Mr King's involvement). That is not long ago, things put in perspective. But still, that's exactly what it is - history.
"Black people have said with a resounding voice that they do not wish to be called "Negro""
You don't get out much, do you?