February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Fraud":
Society: 14 Feb 12
A 29-year-old man in northern Sweden has been remanded into custody together with an accomplice after trying to extort money from his parents by pretending he had been kidnapped.
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National: 12 Feb 12
Several of the recent killings in Malmö have been linked to financial fraud and fake companies trading online, according to sources close to the ongoing murder investigations.
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National: 31 Jan 12
A 33-year-old Swedish computer hacker wanted by the American FBI has been discovered living in Ängelholm, southern Sweden, yet Swedish police can only keep an eye on him.
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Business & Money: 13 Jan 12
Swedbank announced plans Friday to write down two billion kronor ($283 million) from its operations in Latvia, which have been plagued by rumours about their financial stability.
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Society: 10 Jan 12
A high-ranking civil servant in Sweden's defence ministry has been sacked after it was revealed he was involved in running several Thai massage parlours on the side.
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Society: 6 Jan 12
When one of Stockholm's top civil servants was recently acquitted of invoice fraud, one of the lay judges fell asleep twice during the legal proceedings, causing the prosecutor to question the verdict.
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Business & Money: 3 Jan 12
The practice of sending fake invoices to companies and private citizens by fraudsters has increased by 340 percent in the last six years, making police label it Sweden's new "social problem".
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Business & Money: 28 Dec 11
A couple from northern Sweden who fled the country after being convicted for swindling unknowing Swedes into funding fictional projects in Thailand have been arrested in Vietnam.
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National: 24 Dec 11
A man accused of kicking his mother-in-law to death was acquitted on a murder charge by a Swedish court on Friday, but found guilty of aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter.
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Business & Money: 20 Dec 11
A 35-year-old Swedish executive who worked for Ikea in Russia is under investigation for fraud and bribery in connection with the Swedish retail giant's operations in Moscow.
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National: 15 Dec 11
Sweden's legal system is plagued by serious shortcomings, according to a new report, which argues that a lack of coordination and “weak” government management are to blame.
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National: 15 Dec 11
A 46-year-old Swedish father who forced his young daughter to pretend she had a mental illness so he could cash in on assistance benefits was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 12 Dec 11
More than 100 Swedbank cash machines in Latvia were emptied at the weekend following a wave of rumours on Twitter hinting that the Swedish bank was in danger of running out of money.
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National: 10 Dec 11
A man in southern Sweden who scammed the Swedish social insurance agency for almost 14 million kronor ($2 million) has been sentenced to four years in prison.
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Politics: 26 Nov 11
Russian financier and former Saab-speculator Vladimir Antonov was released on bail by a British court on Friday, following his arrest in London on suspicion of fraud.
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Business & Money: 23 Nov 11
Lithuanian prosecutors have issued a European arrest warrant for the Russian financier and Saab backer Vladimir Antonov on suspicion of fraud and money laundering.
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National: 17 Nov 11
Taimour Abdulwahab called a mobile telephone in Iraq the same day that he blew himself up in Stockholm, and received 60,000 kronor ($8,800) from backers in Scotland, according to British prosecutors.
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Business & Money: 17 Nov 11
Eight people were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of embezzlement at state-owned Casino Cosmopol in Gothenburg.
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Business & Money: 16 Nov 11
Sven Hagströmer and long-term business partner Mats Qviberg have announced that their holding firm Öresund is to be divided in the wake of a scandal involving the now defunct HQ bank.
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National: 27 Oct 11
A Swedish father stands to face charges for having cashed in over 25,000 kronor ($3,850) a week to take care of his daughter based on a faked diagnosis for mental illness for more than a decade.
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Politics: 14 Oct 11
The Social Democrats' powerful executive committee will meet at 9am on Friday, for what has been described as "judgement day" for embattled leader Håkan Juholt.
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Politics: 11 Oct 11
Under-fire Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt has come under further scrutiny over his expenses after revelations that he declined to repay some of a Riksdag travel grant despite having cut short a trip to Belarus in 2006.
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Politics: 10 Oct 11
The fraud investigation against Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt will restrict his freedom of movement politically - and a prosecution will force his departure, political scientist Ulf Bjereld tells The Local.
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Politics: 10 Oct 11
Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt is to be probed on suspicion of fraud in connection with revelations that he has spent years pocketing accommodation reimbursements he wasn't entitled to, the prosecutor has announced.
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Politics: 9 Oct 11
Swedes' confidence in Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt has plummeted following reports of his faulty rental payments, showed a recent poll, with 52 percent reporting "very little or little confidence" in him.
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Politics: 8 Oct 11
Social democratic leader Håkan Juholt has spent years pocketing accommodation reimbursements he wasn't entitled to, amounting to a total of roughly 160,000 kronor ($23,500).
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Society: 5 Oct 11
A 26-year-old man has been charged with blackmail after using a female online alias to demand money from a famous Swedish actor to prevent a film of him masturbating going public.
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National: 13 Sep 11
Photographer Terje Hellesö, has been stripped of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's Nature Photographer of the Year award after admitting that he manipulated a number of his pictures of predatory animals.
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Science & Technology: 5 Sep 11
Photographer Terje Hellesö, recipient of a Swedish Nature Photographer of the Year award, has been reported to police after admitting that he manipulated a number of his pictures of predatory animals.
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Business & Money: 19 Aug 11
One in three Swedish employees have felt worried that they will be exposed as a “fraud” at work, a new survey from recruitment agency Manpower shows.
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National: 10 Aug 11
Wednesday saw the start of the trial against a 67-year-old Swedish woman who is charged with having swindled 3.4 million kronor ($517,000) from friends by help of so called "Nigeria Letters".
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Education: 8 Aug 11
Flat-hunting students in Sweden have been swindled into forking out cash for accommodation that doesn't exist, causing one housing site to issue a warning to its users.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Aug 11
With no end in sight to the shortage of student housing in Stockholm, foreign students should be on the lookout for scam artists hoping to capitalise on their desperation, contributor Anita Badejo discovers.
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National: 31 Jul 11
Following Swedish defence group Saab's admission last month that it paid millions in bribes to secure an arms contract in South Africa, police in that country have re-opened a probe into the controversial deal.
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Business & Money: 28 Jul 11
If you’re an expat who uses your bank to transfer money abroad, you’ll know that extortionate fees and bad exchange rates can leave a big hole in your pocket. Using a currency specialist can cut these costs dramatically. Here is how.
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Education: 25 Jun 11
Thousands of foreign students are abusing their residency rights by never attending college in what could be a widespread visa fraud, according to a new report from the Swedish Migration Board.
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Education: 17 Jun 11
The principal of a Stockholm-area free school who "used the school as her personal bank account" has been convicted for falsifying invoices to avoid paying taxes.
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Society: 16 Jun 11
Three people in Sweden were charged with credit card fraud on Wednesday after using skimmed cards to buy everything from snacks to jewellery and clothes for a value up to 500,000 kronor ($77,000).
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Business & Money: 10 Jun 11
Two students enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) were among several Stockholm residents charged on Thursday for their role in a massive swindling operation involving 100 million kronor ($16 million) in laundered money.
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National: 10 Jun 11
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.
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National: 10 Jun 11
Disabled people are being lured to Sweden by false promises of generous benefits in a sophisticated fraud scheme that officials liken to human trafficking, according to Swedish media reports.
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National: 9 Jun 11
Criminal suspicions have surfaced involving Marcus Allbäck, a former striker for Sweden's national team and current assistant trainer, in connection with the Gothenburg construction corruption scandal.
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National: 3 Jun 11
The 47-year-old Stockholm mum who last year was sentenced to prison after keeping Polish women under “slave-like conditions” was acquitted of the trafficking charges on Friday.
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Business & Money: 26 May 11
Every fifth business leader in Sweden could consider paying a bribe to win advantages in business and to retain clients, a new survey shows.
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National: 21 Apr 11
The Swedish Red Cross lost 44,000 members in 2010, equating to every fifth, with criticism over high salaries and a high profile fraud scandal taking its toll.
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Society: 20 Apr 11
The 48-year-old ‘clairvoyant’ who managed to swindle large amounts of money from three unsuspecting victims was sentenced to prison by a Swedish court on Wednesday.
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Society: 18 Apr 11
Johan af Donner, the former Swedish Red Cross communications chief sentenced to five years in prison for swindling the organisation out of millions of kronor, has lost an appeal against his conviction.
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Society: 30 Mar 11
A 48-year-old phony fortune teller who managed to make millions of kronor disappear from the bank accounts of unsuspecting Swedes has finally been arrested after years of evading capture.
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Politics: 28 Mar 11
The girlfriend of newly crowned Social Democratic party leader Håkan Juholt was convicted of fraud and fired by her former employer, according to media reports.
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Society: 25 Mar 11
A gang of six who are alleged to have drugged and robbed a 25-year-old Malmö man after one of their number, an 18-year-old girl, had used her charms to trick her way into his apartment, were charged on Friday.
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Society: 22 Mar 11
International fraud by so-called "Nigeria letters" have increased dramatically in recent months with a growing number of Swedish victims left millions of kronor out of pocket.
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National: 15 Mar 11
A 30-year-old man arrested in Glasgow in connection with a suicide bombing in Stockholm in December appeared in a British court on Monday charged with terrorism offences.
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National: 14 Mar 11
The 47-year-old man known as the "dusk and dawn pyromaniac" faces trial in Ystad in southern Sweden on Monday, charged with having set fire to an apartment block in the town in December.
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National: 5 Mar 11
Around nine million kronor disappeared in a tangle of false invoicing between four different construction companies in western Sweden. Four suspects have been charged.
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Business & Money: 21 Feb 11
Charitable giving in Sweden in 2010 may reach record levels, according to preliminary statistics, approaching levels not seen since the year following the tsunami catastrophe in southeast Asia.
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National: 18 Feb 11
A Swedish appeals court has overturned guilty verdicts served to two men in connection with the sale of a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex, reducing a third man's sentence for pimping.
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Society: 8 Feb 11
The historic ties between Sweden and the US state of Minnesota play a central role in a new email scam targeting Swedish citizens.
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Education: 1 Feb 11
Sweden's student loans body, CSN, has reported 29 people to the police on suspicion of committing serious fraud in connection with applications for studies at a UK university.
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Politics: 25 Jan 11
The head of the Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria pledged "zero tolerance" for corruption on Monday after Sweden announced it would not commit to its contributions amid reports of "grave misuse" of about $34 million in four African countries.
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National: 19 Jan 11
Swedish taxpayers looking to shield earnings from the country's tax authorities may have an unlikely tax haven at their disposal across the Atlantic: the United States.
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Education: 17 Jan 11
The number of students expelled from Sweden's colleges and universities for cheating went up by nearly 50 percent in 2010 compared to the year before, new statistics show.
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National: 14 Jan 11
An increasing number of Sweden's top business executives are hiring bodyguards as the threat and risk of robbery and extortion grows in the country.
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Politics: 4 Jan 11
A local Swedish politician who suggested levying a tax linked to people's weight has apologised for the controversial proposal after it was reported to Sweden's Ombudsmen for Justice.
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Society: 29 Dec 10
Three men were convicted on Wednesday of involvement in the theft of several works of art, including Edvard Munch's "Two Friends", from the Malmö Art Museum in September.
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Society: 23 Dec 10
A Stockholm woman who approached a psychic medium for help to "burn away all evil" has been awarded damages after claiming fraud when results were less than satisfactory.
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National: 16 Dec 10
A 25-year-old man suspected of killing and dismembering a couple from the Båstad area in western Sweden was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday for murder, manslaughter and disturbing the peace of the dead.
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Business & Money: 2 Dec 10
The CEO of disgraced Habo Finans was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated fraud and aggravated accounting fraud by Jönköping district court on Thursday.
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National: 23 Nov 10
Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday called on the Iranian diaspora to protest against Swedish company Ericsson, accusing the telecoms firms of aiding monitoring in Iran.
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National: 2 Nov 10
A court in Malmö in southern Sweden sentenced several men to prison on Tuesday for their role in selling a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex.
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Business & Money: 1 Nov 10
The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority has put over 500 fake stockbrokers and other swindlers on its warning list so far this year, a significantly higher number than in the whole of 2009.
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National: 29 Oct 10
A special police unit in Stockholm combating share scams was closed last week by the chief safety ombudsman due to a large influx of cases.
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Society: 13 Oct 10
Another man is being held for his suspected involvement in the theft of three paintings from the Malmö Art Museum last week. Police believe the heist was an inside job.
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Business & Money: 9 Oct 10
A Northern Irishman who studied in a Swedish class for immigrants while unemployed has been ordered to repay nearly 200,000 kronor ($30,000) in benefits after incorrectly filling out a form.
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Society: 8 Oct 10
A female surgeon from Stockholm has been sentenced to four years in prison for aggravated fraud after having swindled public health authorities out of more than 7 million kronor ($1 million).
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Society: 7 Oct 10
A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of art worth millions of kronor from the Malmö Art Museum which was only discovered when police unearthed a work by Edvard Munch during a raid on a flat in Landskrona.
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Business & Money: 30 Sep 10
Disgruntled savers from a small Swedish community flooded into a Jönköping court on Thursday to follow the case of Habo Finans, an investment firm which folded taking the savings of almost 780 people with it.
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Business & Money: 28 Sep 10
Fighting back tears, outgoing HQ Chairman Mats Qviberg admitted on Tuesday that he was briefed daily on the trading operations of the now-defunct HQ Bank.
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Business & Money: 24 Sep 10
The board of embattled Swedish financial concern HQ, helmed by CEO Mats Qviberg, was cleared on Friday of all liability regarding the company's collapse following an audit.
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Business & Money: 15 Sep 10
An administrator at the Swedish Tax Agency and three other people are expected to be charged for their involvement in a fraud scandal involving at least 120 million kronor ($16.89 million).
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Business & Money: 15 Sep 10
HQ Bank’s previous parent company, publicly listed HQ AB, has reported a former manager to the police for what it sees as partial responsibility for the bank’s collapse.
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National: 14 Sep 10
A man from Borås in western Sweden has been charged with fraud after taking advantage of a technical fault to withdraw 1.6 million kronor ($224,000) from a cash machine, despite having only a couple of thousand kronor in savings.
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Science & Technology: 11 Sep 10
An Uppsala businessman suspected of having sold 1,400 counterfeit iPhones to telecom operators in Sweden is under investigation for fraud.
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National: 10 Sep 10
The 24-year-old man suspected of killing and dismembering a couple outside Båstad in western Sweden in 2007 described parts of the scuffle that led to the deaths as an "impulse thing" in a hearing on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 8 Sep 10
Julian Assange has alleged the United States pressured Swedish intelligence to deny WikiLeaks "safe-haven", claiming in an interview that the rape charges against him are part of "a clear set-up".
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Science & Technology: 8 Sep 10
More than half of all Swedes have been exposed to crime on the internet, a new survey published on Wednesday indicates.
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National: 7 Sep 10
A contractor with a municipal housing company became the first suspect arrested in connection with a bribery scandal that rocked Gothenburg earlier this year, a prosecutor announced on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 6 Sep 10
Fears of widespread withdrawals at HQ Bank proved unfounded when it reopened its doors on Monday morning.
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Business & Money: 3 Sep 10
The Swedish Economic Crime Authority is launching an investigation into suspected fraud and accounting crimes at HQ Bank.
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Society: 26 Aug 10
Two girls from Haninge, south of Stockholm, hoping to work as au pairs in New York learned that they lost more than 100,000 kronor ($13,400) to a fraudulent agency, TV4 Nyheterna reported late on Wednesday.
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Society: 4 Aug 10
A social insurance fraud ring in southern Sweden involving dozens of families defrauded the state of 75 million kronor by claiming for fabricated illnesses.
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National: 22 Jul 10
Aides to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were in damage control mode on Wednesday after a blistering attack on his leadership by the outgoing Swedish head of a UN unit battling internal fraud.
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Society: 19 Jul 10
A 32-year-old man who was caught playing ping-pong while claiming to be disabled by cerebral palsy has been jailed for three years by a Swedish court.
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National: 9 Jul 10
The trial of a Swede indicted for human smuggling and fraud has begun in Ethiopia. The woman is also wanted in Sweden for social insurance fraud.
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National: 30 Jun 10
The Swedish Customs (Tullverket) has exposed a garlic smuggling operation which operates across the EU, after a shipment of the offending onion was recently seized in western Sweden.
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Society: 7 Jun 10
A man pretending to be a naturopath has been sentenced to prison for three and a half years by Borås District Court.
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Society: 31 May 10
Johan af Donner, the former communications chief of the Swedish Red Cross sentenced to five years in prison for swindling the organization out of millions of kronor, has appealed the district court sentence.
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Science & Technology: 28 May 10
A 31-year-old Swede is among three people indicted in the United States in connection with an internet fraud scheme that netted $100 million for its architects.
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National: 27 May 10
The Swedish government on Thursday announced a major overhaul of the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) replacing the director-general Anders Nordström with former Save the Children head Charlotte Petri Gornitzka.
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Society: 26 May 10
The former communications chief of the Swedish Red Cross has been sentenced to five years in prison for swindling the organization out of millions of kronor.
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Business & Money: 24 May 10
Fraud and corruption has increased during the recession with Swedish firms harder hit than the global average, a new survey shows.
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Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
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