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February 14, 2012
Scam
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Staffing firm used 'fake' jobs to dupe workers
Business & Money: 23 Jan 12
A Swedish staffing firm has come under fire for offering workers temporary job assignments that didn't actually exist in order to avoid paying them.
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'Fake' hotel in Swedish resort advertised online
Business & Money: 12 Jan 12
A hotel in the popular Swedish ski resort Åre, advertised on the internet, turned out to be fake when it was recently revealed that there has never been a hotel in that location.
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Iraqis in look-alike Swedish passport scam
National: 11 Jan 12
Two men, aged 38 and 30, have been arrested in Malmö on suspicions of smuggling Iraqi citizens into Sweden using other people's Swedish passports.
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Swedish ad agency behind sex school hoax
Society: 11 Jan 12
The news about the Austrian sex school AISOS, which spread like wild-fire through the international media, was staged by a Swedish advertising agency.
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Prison for dad who made girl fake mental illness
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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'Wheelchair man' jailed for four years for fraud
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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Stockholm stabbing suspect refuses to speak
National: 2 Dec 11
The 20–year-old, held on suspicion of knifing a teenager at a Stockholm high school on Wednesday, has been questioned by police but denies all allegations and refuses to answer any questions.
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Bound woman 'faked the incident': police
National: 1 Dec 11
The woman found tied up and gagged next to a Swedish motorway on Tuesday is not the victim of any crime, admitting that the whole incident was a fake, according to police reports.
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Stockholm elderly care scandal widens
Society: 2 Nov 11
Employees from yet another elderly care facility in Stockholm have revealed how major cut backs have meant staff shortages and sometimes no toilet paper. In one case, a elderly man was made to sleep on the floor for months.
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Dad forced daughter to feign mental illness
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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Stockholm pub 'tipping scam' widens
Society: 18 Oct 11
Several Stockholm restaurants are under scrutiny after revelations about more cases of eateries tricking their customers into thinking they are required to leave tips.
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Actor blackmailed over masturbation film
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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Tourists left reeling after tipping scam
Society: 23 Sep 11
Two Danish tourists were left out of pocket after they were fooled into leaving a 20 percent tip at a Stockholm restaurant recently, despite the fact that tipping in Sweden is optional.
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Two charged in Bulgarian berry picking scam
National: 23 Sep 11
Two Bulgarian men were charged with trafficking on Thursday after luring fellow countrymen to Sweden with false promises of berry picking work and comfortable lodgings.
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Swedish pensioner charged with 'Nigeria Letter' scam
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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Foreign students easy prey for Stockholm rental scams
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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Sweden hit by Microsoft phone hacking scam
Science & Technology: 29 Jul 11
Fake, English-speaking tech support specialists claiming to be from US software giant Microsoft are targeting Swedes in a creative scam designed to hack into people's computers.
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Swedish bosses open to bribes: study
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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Housing scam targets Swedish college students
Business & Money: 2 May 11
Dozens of Swedish university students desperate to find accommodation in Stockholm lost at least 350,000 kronor ($58,000) in an internet housing scam.
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Swedish 'clairvoyant' con-artist sent to prison
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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Swedish police catch 'clairvoyant' con-artist
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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Juholt's girlfriend convicted of fraud: report
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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Wave of 'Nigeria letter' fraud hits elderly Swedes
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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US state issues alert over Swedish email scam
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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Three expelled in university scam
Education: 6 Feb 11
Gothenburg University has expelled three students after they were caught falsifying their exam entry grades. The students were taking courses in medicine, law and dentistry.
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Stock scam warnings jump sharply in 2010
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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Police fraud unit closed due to high workload
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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Swedish town looks to America following surprise bequest
Society: 28 Oct 10
A generous gift from a mysterious Swedish-American benefactor has sent officials in a small Swedish municipality scurrying for clues about a previously unknown native daughter who died in the United States in 1993.
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Wealthy Swedes swindled at SEB bank
Business & Money: 26 Oct 10
Around 20 well-to-do customers at Swedish bank SEB have been swindled out of more than 50 million kronor ($7.5 million) with at least one employee thought to be involved in the scam.
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Second suspect held in Malmö art theft
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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Homeless in Uppsala: a foreign student’s tale
Lifestyle: 28 Sep 10
More than a month after arriving in Sweden, many foreign students are still struggling to find permanent housing. Contributor Amy Keresztes, an American studying at Uppsala University, shares her tale of frustration.
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Jilted hubby exacts mousy revenge
Society: 1 Feb 10
A 59-year-old man has been arrested for using his ex-wife's musophobia to wreak a cruel revenge for their break up after he pushed 19 mice through her letter box on Sunday morning.
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'Necrophiliacs' behind Haiti Facebook hoax
Society: 20 Jan 10
More than 200,000 Swedes joined a Facebook group claiming to be collecting donations to help earthquake victims in Haiti before it was revealed as a hoax by the “Swedish Necrophilia Association”.
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80-year-old swindled in internet lottery fraud
National: 30 Dec 09
An elderly gentleman in central Sweden was swindled out of his life savings by a fraudulent email claiming he had won £450,000 ($715,000).
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Payback unlikely for Swedes swindled by bogus brokers
Business & Money: 18 Nov 09
More than one hundred Swedes who were defrauded of tens of millions of kronor by a group of phony stockbrokers working out of Hungary will likely never see their money again, police say.
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Bankers blindsided by con artist's creamy cake
Society: 16 Nov 09
A well-dressed Swedish fraudster treated bank employees to cake as thanks for helping him make off with 12 million kronor ($1.75 million) in cash and gold. He has now been sentenced to eight years in prison.
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Swedish net sellers tricked by fake euro bills
Business & Money: 14 Sep 09
Police in Stockholm have uncovered a new scam involving internet transactions and counterfeit euro bills.
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Fraud lands 'mafia's banker' in prison
National: 17 Jul 09
A 46-year-old man known as the 'mafia's banker' has been convicted for defrauding investors of more than 116 million kronor ($14.7 million) has been sentenced to at least six years in prison.
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More evidence against Malmö 'skimmers'
Business & Money: 16 Jul 09
Swedish police are increasingly certain that two men arrested last week in Hungary are the masterminds behind the widespread credit card scam which recently hit residents in Malmö in southern Sweden.
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'Sackey Wasky' whacks wallets of Swedish men
Society: 15 Jul 09
A cunning internet con artist posing as a love-struck woman from Ghana has succeeded in defrauding a number of Swedish men of hundreds of thousands of kronor.
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Probe widens against Red Cross fraudster
Society: 7 Jul 09
Damage claims against Johan af Donner, the former Red Cross communications chief suspected of embezzling millions from the organization, continue to grow.
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Credit card scammers target Malmö drivers
National: 2 Jul 09
Dozens of drivers who refueled at petrol stations in southern Sweden have been caught up in a credit card scam, with more than 40 reports pouring in on Thursday alone.
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Nine convicted for internet sex scams
National: 27 Jun 09
A group of friends in western Sweden have been convicted of gross fraud for swindling several Swedish men out of more than one million kronor by pretending to be women on the internet.
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Red Cross fraudster faked his academic records: report
Business & Money: 22 Jun 09
The man suspected of defrauding the Swedish Red Cross of 2.7 million kronor ($336,000) to help fund a life of luxury reportedly built his career on falsified university transcripts.
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Scam targets Swedish PM's mother-in-law
Society: 19 May 09
The mother-in-law of Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has been caught out in an elaborate swindle - two thieves sold her apartment without her knowledge.
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Threats over Swedish lie detector research
Science & Technology: 27 Jan 09
An Israeli manufacturer of lie detectors has threatened to sue researchers from two Swedish universities who collaborated on a study concluding that lie detector tests are useless.
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The great Swedish taxi rip-off
Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 09
With taxi rip-offs on the rise, Doug Lansky takes a look at how this un-Swedish practice started, why it’s allowed to continue, and what you can do to protect yourself from the scam.
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Prison for sex buyer blackmailers
National: 23 Dec 08
Three men have been imprisoned for the robbery and blackmail of men looking to buy sex from teenage girls over the internet.
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Crime bureau strikes a nerve in dentist tax scam
National: 15 Dec 08
Forty-five Swedish dentists risk falling foul of the law as the authorities launch an investigation into a suspected 113 million kronor ($16 million) tax dodge.
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Nine fishermen convicted of poaching
National: 5 Nov 08
A Swedish court has found nine fishermen guilty of illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod in the country's largest ever poaching case.
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Alternative medicine 'a dangerous scam'
Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 08
The field of complementary and alternative medicine is misguided at best and may even be dangerous, agues Joel Jansson.
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Huge doping ring uncovered in Sweden
National: 21 Oct 08
Swedish police rounded up 40 people on Tuesday in series of pre-dawn raids across the country in an effort to crack a massive doping scam.
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South African police free kidnapped Swede
National: 30 Sep 08
Police in South Africa have rescued a Swedish national from Nigerian kidnappers who had lured the man to the country using an investment scam.
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Scam artist targets English-speaking jobseekers
National: 23 Sep 08
An experienced scam artist has been targeting English speaking jobseekers in Sweden, luring them with promises of non-existent jobs, police say. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius reports.
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Massive illegal fishing trial underway in western Sweden
National: 27 Aug 08
Two of seventeen people charged with illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod from Swedish waters admitted wrongdoing on Wednesday in one of Sweden’s largest ever fish poaching cases.
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Surgeon accused of faking operations
National: 11 Jun 08
A surgeon at a private clinic in Gothenburg is suspecting of taking payment for operations which never took place.
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The enchanted forest on Stockholm's doorstep
Travel: 25 May 08
Sweden might be covered in trees, but Tyresta National Park is a forest with a difference. Alec Forss explores a primeval landscape a stone's throw from the capital.
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Email scam targets Nordea
Business & Money: 15 May 08
Customers banking with Nordea have been the victims of a new fraud attempt.
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Elaborate sex pic scam nets boy thousands
National: 11 Apr 08
A 16-year-old con artist who used nude pictures to empty his victims’ bank accounts has been sentenced to community service.
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Swede caught in UK welfare scam
National: 20 Feb 08
A Swedish citizen falsely claiming to have 18 children received more than £20,000 before getting caught.
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63-year-old held over remote-control bank heist
National: 1 Feb 08
A 63-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection with a hi-tech heist worth "several hundred million kronor".
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Teens caught in porn site card scam
Society: 21 Dec 07
Two 16-year-old boys went on a 40,000 kronor shopping spree after setting up a fake porn site to steal people's credit card details.
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Sweden gets EU cash for refugees
Society: 18 Nov 07
Sweden is to receive nearly half the EU's immigration budget after taking in record numbers of Iraqi refugees.
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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.
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Kitsch, colourful and veggie
Lifestyle: 21 Sep 07
Tipping Point:Kathleen needs a break from blond wood tables, and is relieved to find that Stockholmers occasionally have the capacity for slightly kitsch taste. One place particularly replete with colour is a restaurant at the city's Hare Krishna temple.
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Couple 'ordered burglary of their own home'
National: 3 Aug 07
A couple in Uppsala is suspected of ordering a break-in into their own home, with the aim of making a large claim on their insurance. Several people are now being prosecuted over the alleged scam.
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Royal black sheep admits adoption scam
National: 17 Sep 06
Jan Bernadotte, a cousin of King Carl XVI Gustaf, has admitted adopting a 34-year old German fraudster in exchange for 350,000 German marks.
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Sweden believes in Carola at Eurovision
Smörgåsbord: 20 May 06
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Allegations of a sex scandal, a Swedish-Finnish beauty and the beast battle and a frosty reception at the last rehearsal: controversy courts Carola before the Eurovision Song Contest final.
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Five owe 6.5 million kronor in parking fines
National: 6 Mar 06
Stockholmers currently owe 193 million kronor in parking fines. But 6.5 million of that is owed by just five individuals, with the worst offender liable for 1,583 unpaid tickets, totalling over 1.7 million kronor.
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Svennis accuses English clubs of "corruption"
Sport: 22 Jan 06
More hot water for England's football manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson, on Sunday morning. A British tabloid has printed more indiscreet comments from its 'sting' with the highest-paid Swede in football.
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Four million kronor stamp scam revealed
National: 23 Nov 05
A raid on a warehouse west of Stockholm uncovers 800,000 counterfeit stamps. And the prime suspect in the scam is the head of a company which hires out PO boxes in competition with Posten.
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Nordea closes web service after fraud attack
National: 4 Oct 05
One of Sweden's largest banks has shut down its internet service "until further notice" following a sophisticated scam which lured customers into giving away their account details. The only clue was some very bad Swedish.
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Civil servant admits to funding scam
Politics: 27 Jul 05
'The Network for Feminist Self-Defence'. A project opposing 'the sexualisation of public places'. They may sound like typical beneficiaries of public funding - but they were part of the 1.5 million kronor fraud to which a senior government official has now admitted. No wonder ministers were duped.
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Three found guilty of kidnapping Siba heir
National: 15 Jul 05
The leader of a gang which kidnapped Fabian Bengtsson, whose family owns the Siba electrical retail chain, has been sentenced to ten years in prison followed by deportation. One accomplice got six years while another will serve two years for sending text message threats to chop off Bengtsson's fingers.
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Swedish government "shaken" by funding scam
Politics: 15 Jul 05
Senior civil servant "conned Swedish ministers"
More details leak out about the million-kronor funding scam allegedly pulled off by a senior civil servant, exposing a serious lack of financial control at the heart of the government.
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Senior civil servant "conned Swedish ministers"
Politics: 14 Jul 05
A senior civil servant is accused of siphoning almost a million kronor to a private account by submitting false funding applications to ministers. He denies the allegations but admits that he's expecting the boot.
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Millionaire shoots himself after police chase
National: 12 Jul 05
He was one of Norway's richest men, wanted in 182 countries for fraud worth hundreds of millions of kronor. But as Swedish police tried to arrest him, Ole Christian Bach shot himself dead.
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Young Social Democrats face fraud inquiry
Politics: 22 Mar 05
An increasing number of Sweden's Young Social Democrat (SSU) "chapters" are now under investigation by the police after it was revealed that they have been artificially inflating their membership numbers to secure more state funding.
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Örebro men deny faking road accident for SEK4m payout
Smörgåsbord: 21 Jan 05
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Mug shot mugs taxpayers
Politics: 25 Nov 04
Stockholm Council runs up a bill of 60,000 crowns reprinting a brochure because they didn't like a picture of a politician, while an expenses scam leaves MPs eating like royalty.
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Reality TV "star" in fake rape scam
National: 18 Nov 04
A former 'Robinson' participant saved a girl from being raped and and his celebrity stock soared - until the girl admitted that it was all a set-up.
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Book case: novel crime method uncovered
Lifestyle: 1 Sep 04
A man is charged with stealing and selling library books, while cutting the tax on books has no effect on sales. Apparently the price wasn't stopping people from buying books after all. Must be all the words.
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Tax man steals millions
Business & Money: 13 Aug 04
Nothing unusual about that, you might say, except that this one took the cash for himself. And the authorities clamp down on banned business people after one man clocks up over 100 bankruptcies.
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Thousands conned in mobile phone fraud
National: 9 Jul 04
Users of Telia's mobile service are tricked into making long-distance calls, while pensioners in the west of the country fall foul of a rug scam.
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Luvvies' tiff
Lifestyle: 9 Jul 04
A very public spat between a screenwriter, a director and Swedish Television threatens to be more interesting than the project they're supposed to be working on. And Sweden's festival season gets into full swing.
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20 things to know before moving to Sweden
As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
How far can English take you in Sweden?
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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