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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 »

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 »

Charges for Sweden's 'biggest-ever' coke bust

National: 29 Dec 11
Four men were charged on Thursday in connection with Sweden's “biggest-ever” cocaine bust that netted drugs worth an estimated 145 million kronor ($21 million). READ »

Swedes in Norwegian butter smuggling bust

National: 19 Dec 11
Police in Norway apprehended two Swedish men over the weekend with more than 250 kilogrammes of butter after they reportedly had been trying to sell contraband spread at 250 kroner ($42) a packet. READ »

Man caught smuggling snakes on a plane

National: 14 Nov 11
A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to community service after customs inspectors atStockholm Arlanda Airport found almost 50 reptiles, including 41 scorpions and five vipers, in his baggage. READ »

Drug bust reveals poopy diaper surprise

Society: 4 Nov 11
Customs officers acting on a tip about a case of alleged drug smuggling in southern Sweden were surprised to discover a stinking diaper full of baby poo instead of illegal drugs. READ »

Smuggling scandal rocks Swedish Air Force

National: 26 Oct 11
The Swedish military has been hit by a smuggling scandal stemming from the Air Force's just completed mission in Libya. READ »

Swedish work permit rules 'misused': minister

Politics: 10 Oct 11
A recent report that labour migrants are abusing Swedish rules in a bid to enter the EU has prompted migration minister Tobias Billström to call the practice "intolerable". READ »

NATO rejects Swedish naval unit offer

Politics: 18 Aug 11
NATO has declined the offer from Sweden to provide a military unit especially trained to board naval vessels, a unit whose deployment was a condition for the Social Democrats to agree to the government's extension of the Swedish Libya mission. 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 »

EU warns Denmark on Sweden border controls

Politics: 18 Jul 11
The European Commission on Monday warned Denmark that it has failed to justify a controversial decision to increase controls at its borders with Sweden and Germany. READ »

Absent Danish controls greet EU border mission

National: 15 Jul 11
European officials visiting Denmark's controversial controls on the border to Sweden on Thursday found to their surprise that there was no sign of the customs officers deployed earlier this month. READ »

'Record bust' of hashish in southern Sweden

National: 7 Jul 11
A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for organising the smuggling of close to half a ton of hashish, and over nine kilogrammes of amphetamine. READ »

Danes deploy increased border controls

National: 6 Jul 11
Denmark on Tuesday deployed 50 new customs officers at its borders with Germany and Sweden as part of a widely-criticised government plan to reintroduce permanent controls at border crossings. 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 »

Borg positive to Danish border controls

National: 13 May 11
Sweden's finance minister, Anders Borg, sees no immediate problems with Denmark's decision to increase border controls between the two countries. READ »

Swede in US court over guns for drugs deal

National: 10 May 11
A Swedish citizen nicknamed "Stallion" faced a US court on Monday and pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to supply weapons to Colombian guerillas in exchange for cocaine. READ »

Suspected sub sighting sets Swedes on edge

National: 6 May 11
The Swedish military is investigating what could be a sighting of a foreign submarine in the Swedish archipelago after a Stockholm resident snapped a photo of a lurking mass on the surface while walking her dog. READ »

Swede arrested in German paedophile snare

National: 17 Apr 11
A 67-year-old Swede who is working as a teacher in Berlin has been arrested on suspicion of abusing children, as well as being one of the brains behind a large human smuggling ring. READ »

Swedes drink less alcohol: study

Society: 19 Feb 11
Swedish average alcohol consumption declined in 2009, in comparison with 2008, but remains high in a historical perspective, a new report published on Friday showed. 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 »

Sweden wants refund for Hells Angel's backache

National: 7 Aug 10
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency has ordered a local Hells Angels leader to pay back more than one million kronor in sickness benefits after he committed crimes that would not have been possible if his purported back pains were real. 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 »

Mum of 11 seeks alcohol smuggling jail pardon

Society: 26 Jul 10
A mother of 11 children sentenced to prison for alcohol smuggling and the illegal sale of alcohol is seeking a pardon to avoid jail time. 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 »

Swede on trial for human smuggling in Ethiopia

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. 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 »

Government calls for action on khat use

Society: 8 Mar 10
The Swedish government has announced a tougher approach to the threat posed by the use of the mildly intoxicating drug khat on the state of public health. 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 »

Double murder victim 'shot through the eye'

National: 24 Jan 10
At least one of the two victims of a brutal double murder in southern Sweden earlier this month was shot through the eye in a gangland-style execution. 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 »

Smuggling charges dropped after birthday boy revealed drinks list

Society: 20 Jan 10
A 20-year-old Swedish man has been acquitted of smuggling charges after convincing a court that the 1,600 litres of beer and 30 litres of spirits found by customs officials were simply a few of the items on his birthday party beverage list. READ »

Police hunt for double murder suspect

National: 19 Jan 10
Police in southern Sweden have put out a warrant for the arrest of a 35-year old man for the murder of two men found in the trunk of a burning car near Halmstad on Sweden's west coast earlier this month. 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 »

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 »

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 »

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's free speech tradition draws Israeli ire

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Aug 09
Sweden's fervent defence of free speech has sparked a diplomatic storm with Israel over the government's refusal to condemn an article accusing Israeli soldiers of smuggling dead Palestinians' organs, write AFP's Igor Gedilaghine. READ »

Transgender belly dancer helps launch Arab gay initiative

Lifestyle: 21 Aug 09
As a human rights group publishes details of a bloody campaign of hate being waged against gays in Iraq, Rami Abdelrahman speaks to members of a recently founded initiative for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Arabs in Sweden. 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 »

Prison for 'Stockholm Syndrome' accomplice

National: 31 Jul 09
One of Sweden’s most notorious criminals, 62-year-old Clark Olofsson, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his involvement in a drug smuggling syndicate. READ »

'Businessman' took millions from faulty cash machines

Society: 14 Jul 09
Charges have been filed against a 54-year-old man who managed to withdraw nearly 3 million kronor ($380,000) from various cash machines in Landskrona in southern Sweden. 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 »

Gothenburg court convicts trio for heroin smuggling

National: 17 Jun 09
Three men have been convicted and given lengthy prison sentences for their roles in a heroin smuggling operation. READ »

'Allow foreign police in Sweden': minister

National: 25 Apr 09
Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask wants foreign police to be able to operate in Sweden. A committee of inquiry will be set up to look into ways in which this might work. 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 »

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 »

Swedish police smash Balkan drugs ring

National: 26 Mar 09
Thirty-seven people have so far been held in custody as part of a crackdown on an international drugs ring with ties to the Balkan region, police in western Sweden revealed on Thursday. 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 »

Methamphetamine increasingly common in Sweden

Society: 10 Mar 09
Methamphetamine appears to be growing in popularity in Sweden, as both smuggling and reports of abuse of the drug have increased in recent years. READ »

Examiner charged over driving licence bribes

National: 25 Feb 09
A driving examiner from Gothenburg has been indicted on bribery charges. The woman is alleged to have accepted half a million kronor ($57,000) in exchange for approving driving licences for 70 test candidates. READ »

Couple suspected of khat smuggling arrested in Malmö

National: 19 Feb 09
Police in Malmö have arrested a man and a woman on narcotics charges after finding the pair had two suitcases filled with amphetamine-like substance khat. 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 »

'Frozen River' wins Stockholm film festival prize

Society: 30 Nov 08
US film "Frozen River" by Courtney Hunt was awarded the 16 pound Bronze Horse by the jury of the Stockholm International Film Festival on Saturday. READ »

Five charged for heroin smuggling

National: 28 Nov 08
Five men were charged in Malmö on Friday for transporting 19 kilogrammes of heroin, half of which was confiscated in Serbia. 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 »

Five convicted over SVT office party booze

National: 11 Nov 08
Five members of staff at the Malmö offices of state broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) have been found guilty of smuggling alcohol from Germany for an office party. READ »

Smuggling charges dropped when couple revealed party plans

Society: 22 Oct 08
The busy social life of an elderly couple from Piteå in northern Sweden has helped free them of smuggling charges after being caught transporting thousands of litres of alcohol from Germany into Sweden. READ »

Swedes smuggling less booze into the country

Society: 29 Sep 08
The smuggling of spirits and beer into Sweden has dropped by 35 percent during the first half of the year, according to researchers at Stockholm University. READ »

Police hit Stockholm drug smuggling ring

National: 26 Sep 08
Police in Stockholm believe they have cracked an international drug smuggling syndicate after confiscating hundreds of kilos of drugs in several recent raids. 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 »

'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 »

Major weapons seizure in Stockholm

National: 15 Aug 08
Six young men have been detained in custody charged with serious weapons crime after police seized large quantity of weapons and explosives outside Stockholm. READ »

Bust nets ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ accomplice

National: 21 Jul 08
Swedish police reported on Sunday that Clark Olofsson, one of Sweden’s most notorious career criminals, was among six suspects arrested in a massive narcotics raid over the weekend. 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 »

14 years for cannabis crime

National: 20 Jun 08
Two men, aged 50 and 47 years old respectively, were sentenced on Thursday by Falu district court to 14 years for aggravated narcotics smuggling. READ »

Swedish alcohol monopoly down the hatch

Analysis & Opinion: 6 Jun 08
Mark Majzner looks at how two landmark EU decisions have affected the alcohol retail trade in Sweden. READ »

Swedish navy ready to hunt pirates

National: 5 Jun 08
The Swedish navy has its corvettes ready to hunt pirates along the African coast. 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 »

Politician acquitted of hate speech charges

Politics: 12 May 08
A local politician from the Malmö suburb of Burlöv has been acquitted of charges of agitation against an ethnic group. READ »

Bildt seeks to expand Middle East cooperation

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Apr 08
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's recent visit to the Middle East marks a possible shift in Sweden’s traditionally cautious, “two-steps forward, one-step back” approach to Middle Eastern conflicts, writes Rami Abdelrahman. 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 »

SVT workers charged with smuggling alcohol

National: 19 Mar 08
Six members of staff at the Malmö offices of state broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) have been indicted on alcohol smuggling charges. 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 »

Parents’ crime costs man prison warden job

National: 19 Feb 08
A man was forced to leave his job as a prison warden after the conviction of his parents. READ »

EU to adopt Nordic method of fighting web-based child porn

National: 11 Feb 08
The method involves cooperation between police, internet service providers, and anti-child porn groups. 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 »

Four indicted after major weapons seizure

National: 22 Jan 08
Four people have been indicted in Malmö on arms trafficking charges following what customs officials describe as one of the largest weapons seizures ever made in Europe. READ »

Sweden's cocaine use on the up

Society: 20 Jan 08
Use of cocaine in Sweden is on the up, according to police and customs officers, who now want better cooperation with South American authorities. READ »

Germany foils smuggling ring

National: 9 Jan 08
Police in Germany have cracked down on a criminal gang suspected of smuggling Iraqis into Sweden. 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 »

Three held over drug seizure

National: 5 Nov 07
Three men have been remanded in custody for smuggling hundreds of kilos of cannabis into Sweden last week. 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 »

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 »

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