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Man raped child 75 times, avoids prison

National: 1 Aug 11
A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to psychiatric care after having been convicted for raping three young children, filming the attacks and publishing the material on the internet. READ »

Malmö shooter remanded again as charges mount

National: 21 Dec 10
The 38-year-old suspected Malmö serial shooter had been ordered to remain in custody as suspicions against him widened to three murders and 10 attempted murders. READ »

Swedish banks join fight against child porn

Business & Money: 24 Nov 10
Cooperation between Swedish banks and police to stop the purchase of child pornography images over the internet has proved effective, the national banking association announced on Wednesday. READ »

Amateur photographers aid police investigations

National: 16 Aug 10
The police are receiving an increasing amount of help in their investigations from photographs and film captured by bystanders who either hand in their material or publish it on online first. READ »

Swedish paedophile to remain in Cambodian jail

National: 13 Aug 10
The 63-year-old Swedish man convicted for sexually assaulting three boys in Cambodia, will serve his 6.5 year sentence after a Cambodian court confirmed his conviction in the face of claims that he had paid $11,000 in bribes. READ »

Paedophile boasts of bribing himself free

National: 11 Aug 10
A 63-year-old Swedish man convicted and sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for sexually assaulting three boys in Cambodia, believes that he will soon be a free man after handing over $11,000 in bribes. READ »

Police target Hells Angels in Gothenburg

National: 20 May 10
Police in Västra Götaland in western Sweden raided a Hells Angels club in Gothenburg on Wednesday evening as part of national drive to tackle organized crime. The city has meanwhile voted to ban biker logos in licensed premises. READ »

Man arrested over Kosovo war crimes

National: 7 Apr 10
A man has been arrested in western Sweden on suspicion of aggravated war crimes, with an alternative charge of murder, in connection with the Kosovo war in 1999. READ »

Seven arrests as police smash trafficking ring

National: 7 Dec 09
Police in Sweden arrested seven people on Monday morning for their suspected role in a human trafficking network. READ »

Elk, not husband, killed Swedish woman: police

Society: 1 Dec 09
A Swedish man suspected of killing his 63-year-old wife has been exonerated after forensic analysis revealed the woman’s death was caused by an elk. READ »

Arrests made in global drug ring raid

National: 21 Nov 09
Three people have been arrested in Stockholm and held on suspicion of the illegal sale of prescription drugs, including diet pills and impotence treatment, as part of a international police operation. READ »

Two helicopter suspects remanded in custody

National: 30 Sep 09
Two men suspected of involvement in last week's daring helicopter heist have been remanded in custody by a Stockholm court. A third man has been released, while the remand hearing for a fourth suspect was postponed until Thursday. READ »

Police probe Serb ties to helicopter heist

National: 29 Sep 09
Police in Serbia suspect the mastermind behind last week's brazen helicopter heist is a 40-year-old Bosnian Serb living in Belgrade known as the 'gangster king'. READ »

Several arrests made in helicopter heist probe

National: 27 Sep 09
Several people were arrested on Sunday afternoon for their suspected involvement in last week’s spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm. READ »

Hunt continues for helicopter robbers

National: 24 Sep 09
Swedish police continue to hunt for suspects and faced criticism following the well-orchestrated, helicopter-aided theft at a cash depot in Västberga south of Stockholm on Wednesday. READ »

Stockholm cash depot hit by helicopter heist

National: 23 Sep 09
Robbers used a helicopter to carry out a spectacular theft at a cash depot south of Stockholm early Wednesday morning. The helicopter was found later in the morning about 30 kilometres north of the crime scene. READ »

Five charged for heroin smuggling

National: 28 Nov 08
Five men were charged in Malmö on Friday for transporting 19 kilogrammes of heroin, half of which was confiscated in Serbia. READ »

Suspected killer to face remand hearing

National: 19 Oct 08
The 50-year-old man held on suspicion of murdering 29-year-old Carolin Stenvall in northern Sweden will face a remand hearing on Sunday. He continues to deny the murder and Stenvall's body remains undiscovered. READ »

Evidence mounts in missing woman case

National: 18 Oct 08
The prosecutor confirmed on Saturday that blood belonging to 29-year-old Carolin Stenvall, has been found in a car owned by the 50-year-old man held on suspicion of her murder. READ »

Police hit Stockholm drug smuggling ring

National: 26 Sep 08
Police in Stockholm believe they have cracked an international drug smuggling syndicate after confiscating hundreds of kilos of drugs in several recent raids. READ »

Search for missing Swedish woman intensifies

National: 22 Sep 08
Police are expanding their search for 29-year-old Carolin Stenvall, who disappeared more than a week ago in Norrbotten in northern Sweden. READ »

Bust nets ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ accomplice

National: 21 Jul 08
Swedish police reported on Sunday that Clark Olofsson, one of Sweden’s most notorious career criminals, was among six suspects arrested in a massive narcotics raid over the weekend. READ »

Warhol paintings stolen in Stockholm art heist

National: 18 Jul 08
Paintings by Andy Warhol were among those stolen from the Lasse Åberg museum near Stockholm on Friday morning. READ »

Swedish police target paedophiles

National: 13 May 08
Law enforcement authorities carried out a series of coordinated raids across Sweden on Tuesday against suspected paedophiles. READ »

Eklund tried to wipe out DNA evidence

National: 22 Apr 08
Engla Juncosa Höglund's killer is believed to have tried to cover his tracks by setting fire to the girl's body. READ »

Police to focus on unsolved murders

National: 17 Apr 08
A remand hearing for Anders Eklund has been scheduled for Friday. Police are examining whether he might be linked to any unsolved murders. READ »

Dalarna police admit to mistakes

National: 14 Apr 08
Police admitted they made a mistake by not following up on a tip they received about the man who confessed to killing 10-year-old Engla Höglund. READ »

Swedish feminists challenge New York governor on sex law

National: 20 Mar 08
Two leading Swedish feminists, Birgitta Ohlsson (l) and Jenny Sonesson (r) have challenged the incoming New York Governor to seek inspiration in Swedish laws outlawing the purchase of sexual services. READ »

Sweden's cocaine use on the up

Society: 20 Jan 08
Use of cocaine in Sweden is on the up, according to police and customs officers, who now want better cooperation with South American authorities. READ »

Warning over fake police emails

Science & Technology: 20 Dec 07
False emails purporting to come from the police, which warn recipients that they are suspected of copyright breaches, have been circulating in Sweden. READ »

Gothenburg police warn of gang war

National: 13 Nov 07
Police in Gothenburg are warning that two rival gangs are engaged in warfare there. The warning comes after a spate of shootings in the city. READ »

Swedish Mafia: fighting a losing battle

Lifestyle: 8 Nov 07
To an outsider, Sweden would seem an unlikely place to find rising gang crime. But the problem has snowballed since the nineties, leaving police clamouring for better tools to deal with the problem. Daniel Boman reports. READ »

Hundreds of bomb scares in Sweden each year

National: 29 Sep 07
Suspected bombs are reported in Sweden almost every day - but despite an apparent flurry of bomb scares recently, police say there is not enough evidence to suggest an upward trend. READ »

'Sweden needs its own FBI' - police chief

National: 22 Sep 07
Sweden's police chief has called for a new national authority for fighting organised crime. Speaking in an interview with newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Stefan Strömberg said that Sweden needed its own FBI. READ »

Swedish police to launch new war crimes unit

National: 11 Sep 07
Sweden is to set up a new war crimes unit to help bring to justice the large numbers of war criminals thought to be hiding out in the country. READ »

Top boss gave US job to fugitive brother

National: 10 Aug 07
A Swedish prisoner who has been on the run for ten years was secretly given work in the United States by his own sister, the Harvard-educated CEO of a Swedish multinational. READ »

Police turn to web search in child porn fight

Science & Technology: 12 Jul 07
The Swedish police has joined forces with image search company Picsearch as part of its fight against child pornography on the internet. READ »

Pirate Bay faces block over child porn

National: 7 Jul 07
File sharing site The Pirate Bay could be blocked after Swedish police alleged that it harbours child pornography. The owners deny the charge, describing the police's strategy as "an abuse". READ »

More cannabis in Sweden than previously thought

Society: 11 Jun 07
Swedish authorities have seriously underestimated the size of the country's cannabis market, according to a new police report. Around 25-30 tonnes of cannabis are sold in Sweden every year, rather than the 3 tonnes previously estimated. READ »

'Palme gun' too rusty to provide answers

National: 28 May 07
Tests on a revolver which had been linked to the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme have not been able to confirm whether it was the murder weapon, police have said. READ »

Swede's partner flees Colombian kidnapper

National: 21 May 07
A Colombian woman being held captive with her Swedish partner escaped her kidnappers during a gun battle with police. Concerns are growing for her 68-year-old partner, Swede Erin Ronald Larson. READ »

Police investigate possible honour killing in Karlstad

National: 9 May 07
A 16-year-old girl who fell to her death from the fourth floor of an apartment block in Karlstad may have been the victim of an honour killing. READ »

Five held after biker gang party

National: 22 Apr 07
Five people were taken into custody on Saturday evening when police raided a party in Gothenburg attended by members of the Bandidos biker gang. READ »

War criminals face tougher investigations

National: 11 Apr 07
Sweden is to step up the fight against suspected war criminals hiding in the country, with a special war crimes unit likely to be set up by Swedish police. READ »

Suspected people smugglers arrested

National: 27 Mar 07
Eighteen suspected people smugglers have been arrested in two separate investigations. Those arrested on Tuesday are suspected of involvement in smuggling people to Sweden from Iraq. READ »

Escaped Finnish murderer sought in Sweden

National: 29 Nov 06
Police across Sweden have been told to look our for Finnish murderer Juha Valjakkala, who escaped from an open prison in Finland on Tuesday. READ »

Triple murderer escapes Finnish prison

National: 28 Nov 06
A national alert has gone out in Sweden after a man who killed a family in a graveyard in 1988 escaped from prison in Finland. Juha Valjakkala, who was awaiting a pardon, murdered a couple and their 15-year old son. READ »

Swedish men order foreign prostitutes online

Society: 11 Oct 06
Those behind prostitution and human trafficking in Sweden have begun to change their tactics to avoid the Swedish police and to get around the country's legislation, according to a new report. READ »

Police identify key names behind Swedish organised crime

National: 10 Sep 06
Swedish police have pinpointed 100 'particularly interesting' people in the fight against organised crime. READ »

File-sharing police 'need better training'

Society: 16 Jun 06
Swedish police and prosecutors dealing with file sharing cases should get a crash course in how to deal with the problem better, according to new proposals. READ »

Swedish prosecutor closes Chechen rebel site

National: 6 May 06
Servers hosting a Chechen rebel website were impounded yesterday by Swedish prosecutors, following a complaint from the Russian embassy. READ »

National plan to combat organised crime

National: 3 Apr 06
Police and prosecutors get an extra 100 million kronor to fight the rising tide of organised crime in Sweden. Criminals who threaten witnesses, plaintiffs, police and prosecutors must be stopped, says justice minister Thomas Bodström. READ »

Police informer in court on child porn charge

National: 20 Mar 06
The man was a paid informer of the Swedish police. But according to the prosecution, he was one of Europe's leading distributors of child porgnography. His trial opened today. READ »

Child porn police tripped by Swedish Supreme Court

Society: 18 Aug 05
When is child pornography not child pornography? When the child in question "looks mature", according to ruling from Sweden's Supreme Court which police say has hampered their efforts against child pornorgraphy. READ »

Fraudsters target Swedish tsunami relatives

National: 17 Aug 05
A number of people in Sweden who lost relatives in the tsunami catastrophe in Thailand last December have been sent an email saying that they are in hospital in Phuket. Many have already been confirmed dead. READ »

Swedish towns ?controlled by Mafia gangs?

National: 5 May 05
Some small and medium-sized towns in Sweden are effectively controlled by Mafia-style gangs, according to a new report from the National Criminal Investigation Department to European police organisation Europol. READ »

Swedish sports star seized in child porn raid

National: 4 May 05
A Swedish champion from "a major spectator sport" has been arrested on suspicion of distributing child pornography on the Internet. He was one of 14 suspected paedophiles caught in a nationwide raid early on Tuesday morning. READ »

"Over 1,000 war criminals in Sweden"

National: 11 Mar 05
A police officer in Sweden's war crimes unit claims that there are ten times more war criminals in the country than the authorities admit. Meanwhile an investigation by Swedish Radio reveals that the Migration Board is consistently failing to report "probable war criminals" to the police. READ »

Sweden continues to count cost of tsunami

National: 25 Feb 05
Two months after the tsunami disaster in south east Asia and the painstaking work continues with accounting for the dead and missing. The financial cost to the state and business is also uncertain - except for the fact that it's rising. READ »

Police release lists of missing Swedes

National: 9 Feb 05
565 Swedes missing, 43 confirmed dead: that's the latest tally following the tsunami catastrophe in Asia, according to the list of names which the police have been forced to make public. READ »

Hope fades for missing Swedes

National: 12 Jan 05
The man leading the search for injured or shocked Swedes in Thailand says that there is nowhere else to look, while the police have gathered dental cards and DNA samples for 1,650 people thought to be missing - but they still won't publish the names. READ »

Are there Swedes in Thai mass graves?

National: 7 Jan 05
That is the question Sweden's ambassador in Thailand, Jonas Hafström, was asking the Thai government yesterday as rumours circulated that the bodies of Swedes and other foreign tourists have been buried with hundreds of others in two graves. READ »

Swedish 12 year old ?kidnapped? in Thailand

National: 3 Jan 05
Concern grows for a Swedish boy who has gone missing in Thailand, despite appearing to have survived the Asian tsunami. READ »

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