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Cheap Norway nappies smuggled via Sweden

Business & Money: 24 May 12
A gang of Lithuanian diaper smugglers is using Sweden as a transit country to ferry cheap nappies bought in Norway for resale at a stiff markup in eastern Europe. READ »

Swedish tabloid editor guilty of weapons crimes

National: 18 May 12
The editor-in-chief of Swedish tabloid Expressen and two other journalists with the paper have been convicted of weapons crimes related to a report about how easy it is to buy guns in Malmö in southern Sweden. READ »

Swedish diplomat risks jail for stone smuggling

National: 12 May 12
A Swedish diplomat risks a prison sentence after he was suspected of trying to smuggle ancient relics out of Turkey while returning from a family holiday. READ »

Cowboy hat smuggler jailed at Norway border

Society: 10 May 12
A smuggler travelling across Sweden's (wild) western border recently baffled customs officials who found over 500 cowboy hats stashed in the back of his car along with booze and cigarettes. 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 »

5-year-old ‘sold’ drugs in major Swedish drug bust

National: 25 Apr 12
Dozens of people in northern Sweden have been charged after police busted a drug ring in which a 5-year-old girl had allegedly handed out hashish and taken payment. READ »

Swedish gang member in garden gnome drug bust

Society: 13 Apr 12
A 26-year-old Hells Angels member from central Sweden was jailed on Wednesday for selling large quantities of illegal drugs ordered from China using his mother-in-law's iPad and hidden inside garden gnomes. READ »

'Vodka-mobile' selling booze to Swedish kids

Society: 10 Feb 12
Police in Stockholm are looking to beef up efforts to put the brakes on a “vodka-mobile” that delivers hard liquor to school children in the Swedish capital who place their orders via text message. READ »

Locked up paedophile accessed child porn

Science & Technology: 25 Jan 12
A man convicted for child pornography crimes and over seventy counts of child rape is believed to have smuggled a memory stick with child pornography into a Swedish psychiatric ward where he is serving time. READ »

86 charged after massive booze smuggling probe

National: 18 Jan 12
More than 80 people were charged on Tuesday for participating in a comprehensive smuggling operation that brought huge quantities of alcohol purchased in Germany into Sweden. 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 »

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. READ »

Cheap Swedish beer gives Norway a headache

Society: 6 Jan 12
Cheaper Swedish alcohol, as well as an increase in beer brought illegally across the border, is giving Norwegian vendors a headache, as manufacturers continue to see a drop in sales. 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 »

Suspected khat smuggler crashes after car chase

National: 30 Dec 11
A man believed to be carrying 200 kilogrammes of the amphetamine-like substance khat in his car crashed into a guardrail after trying to flee Swedish customs officials at the Öresund bridge on Friday morning. READ »

Sweden safe while butter shortage hits Norway

Society: 11 Dec 11
While Norway is reeling from a severe butter shortage, causing some to try to smuggle butter in across the border and others make a killing on the black market, Swedes can relax in the knowledge that their Christmas baking is safe. READ »

Rape threat OK for military drill, gay slur not

Society: 8 Nov 11
The Swedish military has condemned that a participant in a recent hostage survival exercise was accused of being a homosexual, but ruled there was nothing wrong with officers threatening to rape his girlfriend. READ »

57 convicted in massive Swedish doping scandal

National: 4 Aug 11
Fifty-seven people were convicted on Thursday for being part of a massive doping ring in one of the largest criminal cases in Swedish legal history that accrued an estimated 58 million kronor ($9 million) in legal fees. READ »

Peru sues Swedish city over 'stolen' artifacts

Science & Technology: 5 Jul 11
The Peruvian president announced on Monday that the Latin American country is planning to sue Sweden's second largest city Gothenburg over the alleged theft of pre-Columbian textiles on exhibit in one of the city's museums. READ »

'Tighten border controls': Sweden Democrats

Politics: 28 Jun 11
The Sweden Democrats demanded increased border controls when the Riksdag debated free movement within the European Union on Tuesday. READ »

'Danish Marmite ban, be damned': British ex-pat

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Jun 11
The news that Denmark has recently banned Marmite caused widespread panic among British ex-pats there, leaving UK native and Marmite lover Tim Harvey wondering whether the decision may have even more far-reaching consequences. READ »

Murder suspect sent 10,000 texts from jail

National: 5 May 11
A 31-year-old man recently convicted of stabbing a man to death used a smuggled mobile phone to send more than 10,000 text messages from inside his cell in a Swedish jail. The phone has yet to be found. READ »

Swedes toast to cheap alcohol from abroad

Society: 1 Mar 11
Every third beer that is consumed in Sweden is bought from outside its borders. And, given the strong krona, the trend won’t be stopping soon. READ »

Yugoslav assassin killed Olof Palme: report

National: 17 Jan 11
The murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was carried out by a contract killer hired by Yugoslav security services, according to German media reports. READ »

Smuggled Swede sweets eat away Danish tax take

Society: 28 Dec 10
An estimated 300 million kronor ($44.18 million) worth of illegally smuggled sweets and chocolate from Sweden are sold in Denmark every year, the Danish tax authority announced on Tuesday. READ »

Swede deported from Colombia

National: 28 Dec 10
A Swedish citizen has been deported from Colombia to Sweden, suspected of serious drugs offences and of being the leader of a cocaine smuggling ring. READ »

Swedish smuggler's appeal met by stiff sentence shocker

Society: 10 Dec 10
A 57-year-old Swedish man who recently appealed his conviction for narcotics offences might now wish he had accepted his original sentence. READ »

Polish booze smugglers caught at Swedish border

Society: 15 Nov 10
Two Poles were caught attempting to smuggle almost 15,000 litres of contraband alcohol through Sweden into Norway on Monday. The seizure was the biggest of its kind in nearly a decade. READ »

Police call for tougher gun crime penalties

National: 21 Oct 10
Police in Skåne in southern Sweden want to see tougher penalties for gun crimes in hopes of cutting down on the number of shootings in the region. READ »

High figures for Swedish marijuana seizures

Society: 18 Oct 10
Swedish customs agents are nabbing more cannabis smugglers than in past years, and people traveling across the Öresund Bridge with small amounts of the drug figure prominently in the statistics. READ »

Charges filed in massive Swedish doping scandal

National: 5 Oct 10
Seventy suspects were indicted at Sundsvall district court on Tuesday for their involvement in the largest doping ring ever uncovered in Sweden. Hundreds of more suspects are expected to be charged as well. READ »

Couple suspected of dog smuggling set free

Society: 29 Jul 10
A man and a woman suspected of having smuggled nine dogs into Sweden were released on Thursday in connection with the detention hearing in Karlskrona. READ »

Swedish Customs targets EU garlic smugglers

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. READ »

US authorities bust Swedish cocaine ring

National: 30 Jun 10
A Swedish man has been arrested in the US on suspicion of being behind a ring of cocaine smugglers planning to ship 12 kilogrammes of the drug to Sweden hidden in car interiors. READ »

What do the Swedish Gaza activists hope to achieve?

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Jun 10
The Ship to Gaza incident was, to say the least, badly handled by Israel. The blockade of Gaza is wrong. But Swedish activists need to ask themselves tough questions about the consequences of their actions, says Stockholm-based Israeli journalist David Stavrou. READ »

Captured Swedes taken to Israeli airport

National: 2 Jun 10
The seven remaining Swedes being held in Israeli custody following the capture of the Ships to Gaza flotilla have been taken to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. READ »

"Israel has painted itself into a corner": Bildt

National: 2 Jun 10
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has demanded an immediate, full and independent investigation into the Gaza aid convoy attacks. READ »

Victoria 'kidnapped' for her hen party

National: 14 May 10
With her wedding only a month away, friends of Crown Princess Victoria have been gathering to help her bid farewell to her days as a spinster, 'kidnapping' her from her brother's birthday dinner. READ »

Smuggler with underpants package bites Swedish customs officer

Society: 17 Feb 10
A suspected drug smuggler, caught with almost 100 grammes of cocaine in his underpants, tried to bite his way out of the clutches of the Swedish customs. READ »

Swedish customs crack cocaine gang plan

National: 22 Jan 10
Customs officers in Gothenburg have unravelled a scheme that saw cocaine being smuggled into the country from Costa Rica. The gang used stolen identification from pensioners and the disabled to receive drug parcels. READ »

Four years in jail for Indian smuggling ring

National: 21 Jan 10
A 38-year-old man has been jailed for four years for his part in running a smuggling ring specialized in spiriting Indians through Sweden to other countries in Europe. READ »

Afghan teens left in the cold by train operator

National: 29 Dec 09
The five Afghan teens found wandering in the cold near Sävsjö in southern Sweden had not been left in the forest by smugglers, it emerged on Monday, but had instead been kicked off a Swedish passenger train. READ »

Afghan teens dumped in Swedish forest

National: 28 Dec 09
Five chilled and hungry Afghan teenagers stumbled into a southern Swedish town on Christmas Eve after being left by smugglers in a deserted stretch of forest days earlier, a priest who had taken them in said Sunday. READ »

Diplomat and wife jailed for smuggling cigarettes

National: 16 Dec 09
A North Korean diplomat and his wife have been sentenced to eight months in prison by a court in Stockholm for attempting to smuggle more than 230,000 cigarettes into Sweden. READ »

Plot thickens over Russian pantyhose probe

National: 16 Dec 09
The mystery surrounding why exactly a Swedish diplomat was selling smuggled pantyhose in a Moscow kiosk grew on Tuesday as the Swedish foreign ministry alleged the Russian media portrayal of the incident was a deliberate smear attempt. READ »

Swedish envoy in Russian pantyhose probe

National: 15 Dec 09
A Swedish diplomat has left his post in Moscow after police interrogated him about allegedly selling women's stockings smuggled from Belarus, according to Russian television. READ »

Swedish minister's infant daughter steals Brussels spotlight

Society: 1 Dec 09
Swedish migration minister Tobias Billström lightened the mood at an EU meeting about human trafficking on Monday by sneaking his baby daughter into the proceedings. READ »

North Korean diplomats' smuggling scheme up in smoke

National: 20 Nov 09
Two North Korean diplomats are being held on suspicion of trying to smuggle 230,000 cigarettes from Russia into Sweden. READ »

Swedish secret agent's 15th century castle up for auction

Society: 13 Oct 09
A 15th century castle in southern Sweden belonging to a man who once supplied secret Russian technology to the Swedish military, is set to go up for auction in November. READ »

Swedes drinking more smuggled liquor

Society: 8 Sep 09
Swedes are buying less beer abroad, but are consuming twice as much smuggled liquor compared to the first half of 2008, according to a new report. READ »

Sweden finds hidden jewels of Russia's last tsar

Society: 28 Aug 09
Sweden has uncovered a treasure trove in its government archives of valuables belonging to the family of the last Russian tsar. READ »

Inmates commit crimes using prison phones

National: 26 Jun 09
Swedish inmates are routinely able to bypass blocks put on prison telephones, allowing them to make calls to fellow criminals with instructions for carrying out new crimes. READ »

Massive Viagra shipment seized by Swedish customs officals

Science & Technology: 24 Jun 09
A shipment of nearly 9,000 Viagra tablets was confiscated during a routine check at a post office by customs officials near Malmö in southern Sweden. READ »

Weapons smuggled in planes used to send aid: think tank

Politics: 12 May 09
A prominent Swedish think tank has warned that air cargo companies hired to deliver humanitarian aid and support peacekeeping operations in Africa are also often used to smuggle weapons. READ »

Sweden's teenagers cut back on booze

Society: 27 Apr 09
Swedish teenagers are drinking less alcohol than they were a few years ago. It has become hip to be sober, according to the Swedish National Institute of Public Health. READ »

Police in moonshine raid on Uppsala farm

National: 23 Apr 09
Police raided a farm in Uppland in central Sweden on Wednesday and seized a large quantity of illegal moonshine. READ »

The Local at Five: 'It's not cool and it's not funny'

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Apr 09
The Local's founder and CEO Paul Rapacioli talks about the birth of Sweden's News in English, conversational silences and his inherent lack of coolness. READ »

Five charged over Iraqi human smuggling ring

Society: 30 Mar 09
Three men and two women were formally charged on Monday for human smuggling on suspicions they helped transport 24 Iraqis into Sweden in return for large sums of money. READ »

'Priest' hides amphetamines under cassock

National: 21 Mar 09
A Polish man wearing a priest's cassock tried to smuggle 600 grammes of amphetamines through Trelleborg harbour in southern Sweden on Friday. READ »

Swedish hairdresser behind youth drugs ring

National: 13 Mar 09
Swedish police on Thursday carried out raids against 447 suspected drugs buyers across the entire country. They had all bought their drugs from a 44-year-old hairdresser in Eskilstuna. READ »

‘Opposing Israeli violence is not anti-Semitism’

Analysis & Opinion: 13 Feb 09
Swedes who demonstrate over Israeli attacks are not anti-Semites. Calling them names is an attempt to silence criticism of Israeli policies, argues Stockholm-based Palestinian Alaa Kullab. 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 »

Ex-cop convicted of smuggling oil in ancient vessel

National: 13 Jan 09
A 40-year-old former police officer was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for charges including oil smuggling by a court in western Sweden on Monday. READ »

Police bust international narcotics ring

National: 11 Jan 09
A major international drug smuggling ring has been busted in an operation involving police in Norway and Sweden. More three quarters of a tonne of narcotics has been seized and 30 people are under arrest. READ »

Bildt: isolation of Gaza 'morally indefensible'

Politics: 8 Jan 09
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Thursday that the only way to halt the smuggling of weapons into Gaza is to stop the fighting and end Gaza’s economic isolation. READ »

Home-grown cannabis flourishes in Sweden

National: 8 Jan 09
Marijuana in Sweden is increasingly being grown domestically rather than smuggled into the country, and police suspect Vietnamese crime networks are behind the proliferation in cannabis growing operations. READ »

'Hemorrhoid patient' gets ten years for heroin smuggling

National: 12 Dec 08
A 52-year-old woman was sentenced to ten years in prison on Friday for trying to smuggle nearly five kilogrammes of heroin into Sweden. READ »

Jailed man destroys evidence with help of mobile phone

National: 10 Dec 08
A prisoner in Gävle in eastern Sweden made several calls home to his girlfriend from his cell after police in the town failed to detect that he had smuggled in a mobile phone in his sock. READ »

Indonesian girl, 16, missing in Sweden

Society: 17 Nov 08
Police have issued a nationwide alert for a 16-year-old Indonesian refugee who has been missing since Saturday afternoon. READ »

Prison sentences for people smugglers

National: 12 Nov 08
Two men at the heart of a massive people smuggling operation were each sentenced to three years in prison by a Swedish court on Wednesday. READ »

Three charged in people smuggling case

National: 25 Sep 08
Three men have been charged for arranging to have 49 foreign citizens smuggled into Sweden. READ »

World anti-drug forum gathers experts in Stockholm

Society: 7 Sep 08
Stockholm will this week host experts, politicians, police and anti-drug activists from 82 countries to share ideas and devise strategies for stopping drug abuse worldwide. READ »

Truck driver smuggles 4,500 litres of alcohol into Sweden

National: 19 Aug 08
A 25-year-old man has been charged with trying to smuggle 4,500 litres of pure alcohol into Sweden. READ »

Tetra-Pak billionaire Rausing sees drugs charges dropped

Society: 12 Aug 08
Drugs charges against Tetra-Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing and his wife Eva were formally dropped at a London court hearing on Tuesday. READ »

Drug charges filed against Tetra Pak heir

National: 15 Jul 08
The heir to the massive Tetra Pak fortune and his wife have been charged with possessing drugs, police in London said Monday. READ »

The hidden lives of Sweden’s undocumented migrants

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jul 08
Sweden has taken in thousands of asylum seekers in recent year. But not all have had their applications accepted. Faisal Enayat Khan describes his encounters with just a handful of Sweden's estimated 15,000 undocumented migrants. READ »

Acquittals in landmark human smuggling case

National: 26 Jun 08
The four suspected ringleaders of a major human trafficking operation from Vietnam to Sweden were acquitted today by the Halmstad District Court. READ »

Swedish billionaire heir on the run in UK

Society: 17 Jun 08
Swedish Tetra Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing is currently on the run from the British Metropolitan police following a car accident on Monday allegedly involving drink or drugs. READ »

Dating Swedish women: logging in and going out

Dating: 14 Jun 08
Dating in Sweden: As winter drew in and he struggled to adjust to life in Sweden, Michael Lynch from Ireland revved up his computer and began dabbling in the world of online dating. 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 »

Six sentenced to prison for human smuggling

National: 11 Apr 08
A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced six men to up to three years behind bars for illegally smuggling people from countries including Iran and Iraq into Europe. READ »

The path to Swedish asylum: A smuggler speaks

Lifestyle: 19 Mar 08
Rami Abdelrahman travels to Jordan and tracks down the first link in the chain of an underground operation involved in the smuggling of Iraqi refugees to Sweden. READ »

Vietnamese human trafficking ring goes on trial

Society: 4 Mar 08
A total of 34 people went on trial on Tuesday accused of trafficking people from Vietnam to Sweden. READ »

Charges dropped because man ‘thought ecstasy was gone’

National: 27 Feb 08
A 28-year-old man being held on drug smuggling charges was released despite having ecstasy when stopped by police. READ »

Wave of illegal weapons hits Sweden

Society: 9 Feb 08
Weapons crimes have increased by 20 percent in Sweden since 2000. READ »

Dozens indicted over Vietnam child smuggling

National: 1 Feb 08
A major child smuggling ring is suspected of bringing dozens of children from Vietnam to Sweden, prosecutors say. READ »

Man 'smuggled ecstasy in bread loaf'

National: 31 Jan 08
A man arrested last year carrying a loaf of bread stuffed with ecstasy has been formally charged with drug smuggling by a court in Helsingborg, southern Sweden. READ »

Swedish trucker jailed for transporting immigrants

National: 16 Jan 08
A Swedish truck driver of Iranian descent has been jailed in Greece for transporting illegal immigrants, many of whom were his relatives. READ »

Women 'smuggled Chinese children to Sweden'

National: 3 Dec 07
Two women have been remanded for allegedly being involved in smuggling Chinese children into Sweden. READ »

'Deport people smuggled into Sweden'

Society: 27 Nov 07
A leading Social Democrat has called for all people smuggled into Sweden to be sent back to their home countries. READ »

Swedish army vehicle used to smuggle refugees

National: 6 Nov 07
The Swedish military has pledged to review its procedures after one of its transport vehicles was allegedly used to smuggle a large group of refugees. READ »

Swedish 'kebab smuggler' arrested in Norway

National: 2 Nov 07
A Swede has been arrested for trying to smuggle 655 kilos of kebab meat into Norway, Norwegian media have reported. READ »

Swedes smoke and drink less

Society: 30 Oct 07
The number of regular smokers in Sweden has fallen again to a record low, according to a new report into the nation's drug use. People are also drinking less than before. READ »

Swede jailed for drug smuggling in Morocco

National: 19 Oct 07
A 20-year-old man from Umeå in northern Sweden has been sentenced to one year in prison in Morocco on drug offences. READ »

Cocaine found hidden in postcards

National: 18 Oct 07
Four people are to face trial for smuggling cocaine into Sweden using specially-made postcards sent from Peru. Police say that between the picture side and the back of the postcard the smugglers had hidden a receptacle full of the drug. READ »

Prison guard struck by falling drugs

National: 14 Oct 07
An attempt to smuggle drugs into a Swedish jail failed miserably on Saturday when a lump of hashish landed on a prison guard's head. READ »

Scrapping alcohol monopoly 'would cause death and violence'

Society: 28 Aug 07
Abolishing Sweden's alcohol retail monopoly would cause consumption of alcoholic drinks to rise dramatically, leaving death, illness and violence in its wake, a new report claims. But critics of the current system say the report ignores existing problems. READ »

Dutch man held after record cannabis seizure

National: 28 Jul 07
A 34-year-old Dutch citizen has been remanded in custody on suspicion of drugs smuggling after being caught trying to bring 225 kilogrammes of cannabis into Sweden. READ »

More guns smuggled into Sweden

National: 25 Jul 07
An increasing number of guns are being smuggled into Sweden, police say, with many of them coming from the former Yugoslavia. READ »

More drugs sent by post

National: 16 Jul 07
People buy their books online, their music and their booze. But it is also becoming increasingly common for Swedes to use the internet to buy drugs, which are then posted directly to them. READ »


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