The following articles have been tagged with "Rikskriminalen":
National: 8 Jan 13
Four men have been held on remand after police found a record 160 kilogrammes of amphetamine in an apartment in southern Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 2 Jan 13
The post office has become one of the first lines of defence for Swedish Customs in their fight against the growing trend of buying narcotics online.
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National: 1 Jan 13
The Swedish Supreme Court has become more lenient when sentencing drug dealers, a trend that worries police who say it endangers their counter-narcotics work.
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National: 4 Dec 12
Representatives from Sweden and 46 other countries will meet in Brussels on Wednesday to coordinate efforts to combat child pornography.
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Society: 15 May 12
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday discuss a case concerning whether the Japanese manga images found on a man’s computer should be viewed as child porn, something a police expert strongly warns against.
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National: 23 Apr 12
Two new names have recently been added to Sweden’s “most wanted” list and authorities are hoping that closer international cooperation may aid the arrest of some 300 criminals believed to be at large abroad.
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National: 17 Feb 12
A Swedish tourist to Morocco has died after being found injured in a pool of blood. Local police call it an accidental death but his family is certain he was murdered.
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National: 18 Jan 12
After several deaths in southern Sweden have been linked to the use the drug fentanyl, a pain-relief patch meant for cancer patients, local police are now calling it the “most serious drug problem” in the area.
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National: 3 Jan 12
Yet another man has been gunned down on the streets of Malmö, making him the fifth in just over a month to be shot dead in Sweden's third largest city.
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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.
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National: 27 Dec 11
A 45-year-old Swedish man whose computer contained more than half a million images of child pornography, including some featuring infants, has been jailed for five years for child pornography crimes and child rape.
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Science & Technology: 8 Nov 11
An increasing number of unauthorized data access cases are being reported in Sweden, not in the least due to spurned IT-savvy exes wanting to keep tabs on their former partners.
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National: 28 Oct 11
Swedish police officers' slow response to the spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm in 2009 has come in for stinging criticism from the National Swedish Police Board’s own inspection unit.
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National: 4 Aug 11
Two Swedish suspects have been identified as part of a major global paedophile ring spanning 14 countries which has been exposed by the US police.
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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.
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National: 22 Jul 11
A year after the introduction of a new law in Sweden banning the viewing of child porn, not a single charge has been filed with police admitting that they can't actively look for transgressors, according to a report in Swedish media.
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National: 21 Feb 11
With the 25th anniversary of the assassination of former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme a week away, Swedish police revealed on Monday that 130 people have confessed to the killing.
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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.
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Science & Technology: 19 Nov 10
A Swedish prosecutor on Friday submitted an application for an international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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National: 1 Nov 10
A bomb threat which emptied the offices of a newspaper in Luleå in northern Sweden last week has been traced to the town’s police headquarters.
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National: 22 Oct 10
Police in Sweden are still holding four of the 20 women arrested on Wednesday in a series of raids directed at a suspected child pornography network.
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National: 20 Oct 10
Swedish police on Wednesday raided a series of locations across the country, arresting 23 people on suspicion of serious child pornography offences. Twenty of the suspects were women, described by the police as 'very unusual'.
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National: 20 Oct 10
Police in Malmö now believe that a more than a dozen unexplained shootings which have taken place in the city this year may be connected. All the victims are believed to have immigrant backgrounds.
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Science & Technology: 12 Oct 10
A Swedish man hanged himself during a live broadcast on the internet on Monday morning, a phenomenon that police described as rare in Sweden.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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National: 12 May 09
Police in Thailand working together with their Swedish counterparts have arrested two Swedes suspected of sex crimes involving children.
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National: 8 May 09
A Swedish man in his sixties has been arrested in Cambodia on suspicions of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy.
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National: 18 Apr 09
Police investigators have ruled out sabotage in several cases where bits of glass were discovered in frozen poultry in Sweden.
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National: 1 Apr 09
Sweden's security police (Säpo) have been called in to assist national police in the investigation into a slew of recent incidents involving glass in chicken products. Meanwhile chicken is being taken off menus across Sweden.
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National: 22 Mar 09
A prominent Swedish member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang will have to survive without the sickness benefits he has been receiving for the past 10 years as he was shown to have hidden income sources.
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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.
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National: 18 Jul 08
Paintings by Andy Warhol were among those stolen from the Lasse Åberg museum near Stockholm on Friday morning.
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National: 18 May 08
Criminologist Leif G W Persson has resigned his post with the National Police Board. He says he is tired of the continual depletion of the national police force.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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National: 5 Jan 05
Police announce that over 100 of more than 700 Swedes confirmed missing are under the age of 20. And with another 1201 Swedes whose whereabouts are unknown, the country comes to a standstill for three minutes silence in honour of all of the victims of Asia's tsunami catastrophe.
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