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Black Cobra gang quitting Sweden: report

National: 21 May 12
The feared Black Cobra criminal gang is abandoning Sweden in the wake of a police crackdown that has left many prominent members in prison. READ »

Viagra helps Swedish gangs get profits up

National: 21 May 12
Viagra and other impotency drugs appear to have replaced cocaine as the drug of choice for Swedish motorcycle gangs looking to profit from the illegal drugs trade. READ »

Jail for heads of massive sex trafficking ring

National: 14 May 12
Two Romanian men were sentenced on Monday to six years prison for smuggling eleven women to Sweden as part of a brutal and far-reaching prostitution ring. READ »

Men held in Sweden for trading rhino horn

National: 1 May 12
Two men are in police custody in Sweden on suspicion of having attempted to trade in the horn from the rhinoceros, which is classed as an endangered species. READ »

Smugglers to Norway cause strain on Sweden

National: 30 Apr 12
Police in western Sweden are kept busy by a large number of illegal shipments of alcohol and cigarettes, believed to be bound for Norway. READ »

Eight charged in 'biggest ever' Swedish drug bust

National: 26 Mar 12
Eight people have been charged for their part in the “biggest ever” cocaine ring in Sweden, in which several tons of cocaine at a value of 4.5 billion kronor ($665 million) had been imported from Colombia. READ »

Gang leader fails to turn up for trial, found dead

National: 15 Mar 12
A 49-year-old leader for Swedish motorcycle gang Outlaws in southern Sweden never turned up for his own trial on Tuesday. Six hours later he was found murdered. READ »

Witness intimidation on the rise at Swedish trials

National: 29 Jan 12
Threats and attempts to scare off both crime victims as well as young witnesses have become more common in Sweden, with threats in connection with court cases up more than 70 percent in the last decade, according to a new report. READ »

'Gomorrah' author wins 2011 Olof Palme Prize

Society: 23 Jan 12
Roberto Saviano, author of Italian mafia exposé 'Gomorrah', and Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho were named the 2011 recipients of the Olof Palme Memorial Prize in Stockholm on Monday. READ »

New gun law proposal frustrates Swedish police

Society: 20 Jan 12
Swedish police are disappointed after a government proposal suggesting a tightening of legislation still failed to grant police the ability to wire tap suspects in cases of less serious weapons crimes. READ »

Swedes arrested in major European drug bust

National: 12 Jan 12
Europol said Thursday it has busted a major synthetic drugs-making network following the confiscation in Sweden of large amounts of amphetamine, resulting in the arrest of nine suspects in four countries. READ »

Malmö residents march to protest violence

National: 8 Jan 12
Residents of Malmö have had enough of the ruthless street violence, and on Friday filled the city's Gustav Adolfs square to show their frustration. READ »

Swedish courts 'go easy' on gun-toting gangsters

National: 8 Jan 12
Being a member of a criminal gang in Sweden can actually result in milder sentences for weapons offences as courts provide leniency in cases in which offenders have been shown to live in a hostile environment and need extra protection. READ »

Customs 'not focused' on weapons smuggling

National: 5 Jan 12
The Öresund bridge has long been known to be an important route for weapons smugglers to get their wares into Sweden. Despite this, only seven illegal weapons were seized there over the course of 2011. READ »

Gun laws may be tightened: minister

National: 4 Jan 12
Sweden's minister for justice, Beatrice Ask, says Swedish weapons laws will be looked over, after recent events in Malmö where five people have been shot within the space of a month. READ »

Rise in shootings puts strain on Malmö police

National: 2 Jan 12
After the latest incident where a 15-year-old died from shot wounds to the head and chest on Sunday evening, police say that the situation in Malmö is “strained” due to a steady rise in violence in the area. READ »

Gun smuggling on the rise in Sweden: police

Society: 25 May 11
Firearms are becoming more readily available in Sweden with smuggling increasingly difficult to control, according to the police. READ »

Sweden’s Saab - back to the future?

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Apr 11
With Swedish carmaker Saab once again teetering on the brink of financial disaster a little over a year after it was saved from bankruptcy, The Local’s Peter Vinthagen Simpson reviews the recent trials and tribulations of this once iconic brand. READ »

Big claims, little evidence: Sweden's law against buying sex

Analysis & Opinion: 23 Jul 10
A new review of Sweden's ban on buying sex has provided little hard evidence that the policy of prohibition has worked, writes Laura Agustín, but few politicians have dared to point out its obvious failings. READ »

Opposition united on EU policy: report

Politics: 27 Jun 10
A new set of common EU policies forged by Sweden’s three-party opposition coalition has seen the Left Party and the Green Party sacrifice several of their traditional anti-EU stances. 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 »

Spyker chief opens door to Russian owner

Business & Money: 16 Feb 10
Spyker CEO Viktor Muller has declared that he would welcome the return of controversial Russian financier Vladimir Antonov to the firm, which recently announced the takeover of Sweden's Saab Automobile. READ »

Sky darkens over Spyker-Saab funding

Business & Money: 2 Feb 10
Spyker CEO Victor Muller is missing a third of the funds required to complete the purchase of Saab from GM as questions mount over the secret financiers rumoured to be backing the deal. READ »

Dissident demo over Iran Interpol listing

Politics: 28 Jan 10
Ten Iranian-born Swedes plan to stage a protest outside the Riksdag on Thursday in a bid to have the Swedish government help get their names removed from an Interpol wanted list. READ »

Sweden to get tougher on violent crime

Politics: 28 Jan 10
Sweden's government is calling for the introduction of a new level of crime classification that will lead to longer jail terms for especially brutal forms of assault. READ »

Swedish police crack down on Topdogz gang

National: 14 Jan 10
Six suspected gang members were arrested on Wednesday as police in southern Sweden seized weapons and explosives in a sting operation targeting the Topdogz criminal organization. READ »

Crime figure sues police over sex club entrapment

National: 12 Jan 10
A 48-year-old man identified as a leading figure in Stockholm's criminal underworld is suing an ex-policeman for 50 million kronor ($7 million), claiming he was set up as part of a major sex club scandal. READ »

Norwegian mafia tied to car trunk murder case

National: 11 Jan 10
Police in Oslo are to investigate suspicions that Norwegian drug gangs may be connected to the grisly find of two burned bodies in the boot of a car in western Sweden last week. READ »

Iran puts ten Swedes on Interpol wanted list

National: 29 Dec 09
Ten Swedes of Iranian descent are named on Interpol’s list of criminals wanted for terrorism and international organized crime. READ »

Dozens arrested in Swedish doping raid

National: 9 Dec 09
Swedish police have arrested 40 people in a nationwide doping raid, according to a statement. READ »

Malmström handed weighty policy portfolio

Politics: 27 Nov 09
Incoming Swedish EU commissioner Cecilia Malmström has been offered the substantial portfolio covering the police, migration and organized crime, EU Commission President Manuel Barroso announced on Friday. READ »

Swede wanted in bribery case arrested in LA

National: 2 Nov 09
Police in Los Angeles have arrested a Swedish businessman wanted on charges of attempting to bribe a Stockholm police chief. READ »

Gangster cites sleepy judge in forced tattoo case appeal

Society: 16 Oct 09
A lay judge slept his way through a court case which resulted in the convictions of two gangsters for forcing an 18-year-old boy to cover an offending tattoo, one of the men has claimed in his appeal to the Supreme Court. READ »

Man arrested in helicopter heist probe

National: 23 Sep 09
Swedish police have one person into custody for suspected involvement in the Hollywood-esque helicopter-aided robbery which took place at a cash depot near Stockholm early Wednesday morning. READ »

Russia denies rumours of Arctic Sea sightings

National: 15 Aug 09
The Russian embassy in Cape Verde denied rumours that the Arctic Sea, a cargo ship that disappeared off the coast of Sweden at the end of July, had been sighted near the islands off the west coast of Africa. READ »

'Super bunker' houses Sweden's top criminals

National: 14 Aug 09
The new high security bunker at Kumla prison in central Sweden is now home to around a dozen of Sweden's most hardened criminals. The facility has space for 24 in total. READ »

Two arrested for fatal Gothenburg shootings

National: 10 Aug 09
Police stormed an apartment in Gothenburg on Monday afternoon and arrested two men suspected of involvement in the shooting dead of two men earlier in the day. READ »

'Secret' Swedish police data sold by criminals

National: 4 Aug 09
Supposedly secret police lists containing details about Sweden’s most dangerous criminals are up for sale across the country among members of the Swedish underworld. READ »

EU's Stockholm Programme to 'bolster individual privacy rights'

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Jul 09
As European Union ministers gather in Stockholm on Wednesday Swedish ministers Beatrice Ask and Tobias Billström explain the EU’s efforts to promote cross-border cooperation in the areas of justice, home affairs, and migration. READ »

Prosecutors under increasing threat: study

Society: 17 Jun 09
Prosecutors in Sweden are facing harassment and threats with increasing frequency, according to a new study. READ »

Police foil Umeå security depot heist

National: 24 May 09
A dramatic shoot out after a robbery at a security depot in Umeå in northern Sweden left one of the robbers with gunshot wounds as four of the gang were arrested. READ »

Prison for prosecutor bomb attack

National: 22 Apr 09
Two men suspected of planting a bomb which exploded on the front steps of prosecutor Barbro Jönsson’s home were found guilty on Wednesday and each sentenced to three and a half years in prison. READ »

Gang leader studies fraud law in prison

Society: 1 Apr 09
While imprisoned for serious drugs offences, Andreas Olsson, the leader of the Bandidos organized crime gang in Stockholm, has been studying courses in financial criminal law at the taxpayer's expense. READ »

Crowd ban 'risks bolstering extremists'

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Mar 09
The City of Malmö's decision to hold the Sweden-Israel Davis Cup tennis match behind closed doors is ill-conceived, short-sighted and potentially dangerous, argues freelance Israeli journalist David Stavrou. READ »

Police to investigate Swedish sex offender website

National: 17 Feb 09
Following a slew of protests from the general public, Sweden's Data Inspection Board has reported a website that names and shames convicted sex offenders, to the police. READ »

New police taskforces to tackle organized crime

National: 15 Jan 09
In an effort to combat the spread of organized crime in Sweden, police plan to create nine nationally-led taskforces to fight criminal gangs, drug smugglers, and other gang-related criminals. READ »

Saviano to attend Stockholm premiere

Society: 26 Nov 08
Renowned Italian author Roberto Saviano is to attend the Swedish premiere of the film adaptation of his hard-hitting book Gomorrah at the 19th Stockholm Film Festival on Wednesday. READ »

Italian outcry over Swedish 'slander'

Society: 26 Nov 08
The Italian Ambassador to Sweden has slammed a petition raised this week by a Swedish member of parliament in support of high profile Italian author Roberto Saviano. READ »

'Fight hooliganism like organized crime'

Sport: 15 Sep 08
Sweden’s main crime prevention agency has proposed fighting football hooliganism using methods similar to those employed to fight organized drug gangs. READ »

Bomb threat 'not gang-related'

National: 25 Aug 08
A bomb threat in Gothenburg on Sunday is not believed to be connected to an ongoing gang war in the city, police say. READ »

'Gang war behind Gothenburg bomb find'

National: 24 Aug 08
A box with the word "bomb" written on it was exploded by police in Kortedala in Gothenburg on Sunday. Police believe that the bomb threat is connected with an ongoing gang war in the city. READ »

Government gets tough on sex trade

Politics: 16 Jul 08
The Swedish government has announced a raft of new proposals to fight the sex trade and organized crime. READ »

New tools needed to 'preempt national security threats'

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Jun 08
The Centre Party's Staffan Danielsson, who sits on the Riksdag's Committee on Defence, explains why he supports Sweden's controversial new surveillance legislation. READ »

Khat: Sweden's forgotten immigrant drug

Analysis & Opinion: 28 May 08
Use of the illegal drug khat is widespread in Sweden's immigrant suburbs but the police have chosen to turn a blind eye, Faisal Enayat Khan reports. READ »

Shots fired at prosecutor's home

National: 14 Mar 08
Shots were fired early on Friday morning at the apartment of chief public prosecutor Mats Mattson. READ »

Police uncover neo-Nazi arms cache

National: 11 Mar 08
Police in Stockholm have confiscated a large number of weapons and explosives following a raid on a neo-Nazi organization. READ »

100 Swedes in Liechtenstein tax probe

Business & Money: 26 Feb 08
Sweden's tax authorities are claiming to have acquired information about some 100 Swedes with bank accounts in Liechtenstein. READ »

Financial crimes hit record levels

Business & Money: 22 Feb 08
The Economic Crimes Bureau held more people to account in 2007 than in any previous year. READ »

Police boss to be moved

National: 7 Dec 07
National Police Commissioner Stefan Strömberg is to be moved from his job, the Justice Department has been said. READ »

Sweden's police chief 'quits' after row

National: 7 Dec 07
Sweden's top police officer is reported to have resigned after disagreements with the government and regional police chiefs. READ »

Biker gang paid 200,000 by council

National: 1 Dec 07
A Swedish municipality paid the Outlaws biker gang 200,000 kronor to move out of the region, it has emerged. READ »

Two men wanted for bomb attack on prosecutor

National: 21 Nov 07
Police are looking for two men seen near the home of a prosecutor whose home was attacked on Tuesday. READ »

Liberals call for 'Swedish FBI'

Politics: 13 Nov 07
The Liberal Party has joined the Police Service in calling for a form of 'Swedish FBI' to tackle organized crime. READ »

Pupils threatened 'for not wearing biker gang clothes'

Society: 9 Nov 07
Police say they are concerned after threats and demands for money were received by schoolchildren in Skåne who refused to wear clothes bearing the logo of infamous biker group Bandidos. 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 »

Murder probe leads police to Bosnia killer

National: 23 Oct 07
Police in Malmö have said they want to speak to a 24-year-old man convicted of murder in Bosnia over two unsolved killings in the city. READ »

Police demand action on organized crime

National: 10 Oct 07
One in three police officers in Sweden say they are being hampered in the fight against organized crime. READ »

Thieves experience economic boom

Society: 17 Sep 07
These are lucrative times for thieves, who filled their pockets with 9 billion kronor ($1.3 billion) worth of goods from Swedish grocery stores last year. READ »

Google likens Sweden to dictatorship

Politics: 30 May 07
Google's leading privacy expert has alleged that Sweden's proposed wiretapping legislation is more befitting of a totalitarian regime than a western democracy. READ »

Mafias sabotage Stockholm economy

National: 4 May 07
A new report suggests that organized crime has become so widespread in recent years that its effects have hampered economic growth in the Stockholm region. READ »

Swedish criminals spending longer behind bars

National: 23 Aug 06
The Swedish criminal classes are spending longer in prison than they did 10 years ago. The average prison sentence is now 14 months, compared to 9 months in 1995. READ »

Liberals: fight needed on organized crime

Politics: 18 Aug 06
The Liberal Party has called for more to be done to cut off the finances of organized criminal gangs. Leader Lars Leijonborg also called for stiffer penalties for those involved in organized crime. READ »

Sweden?s snoop laws are worthy of Soviet Union

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Jul 06
New laws proposed by Sweden’s government would require internet service providers to snoop on all of us, says the Pirate Party’s Björn Lindh. READ »

Swede arrested in Bosnia terror threat

National: 21 Oct 05
A Swede has been arrested in Bosnia along with two others suspected preparing a terrorist attack. Newspapers say one of the men had planned a suicide attack against "an embassy of an EU country". READ »

Inaction over witness protection slammed

Society: 28 Jul 05
Sweden's government is being accused of dragging its feet over the introduction of scheme to protect witnesses in criminal trials. Meanwhile, threats against witnesses are increasing, campaingers say. READ »

Nearly all murderers are mentally ill: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 11 May 05
Some 90 percent of murderers are mentally ill, a higher percentage than believed previously, a Swedish study quoted in Tuesday's edition of scientific magazine Forskning och Framsteg has shown. READ »

Record drugs hauls by Swedish Customs in 2004

National: 29 Dec 04
The amount of amphetamines, opium, kat and ecstasy seized by Swedish Customs during 2004 beat all previous records, as authorities increase their focus on organized crime. READ »

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