The inquiry proposes adding two new crimes to Sweden's penal code: participating in a criminal organisation and associating with such an organisation.
A criminal organisation is defined as more than two people who commit crimes, or who otherwise contribute to serious crime, for financial gain or other "unfair advantage".
The goal, according to the inquiry's chair, Hans Harding, is to target several different groups of people.
"It's everything from loosely organised groups to well-organised criminal structures. This could include companies, motorcycle clubs, criminal networks and even family-based networks, what we call clans," he said.
The crime of association with a gang, he added, was designed to criminalise those who enable criminal gangs, and could be used to prosecute lawyers, accountants and bank officials who help gangs launder their money.
"It's not enough to just support the association in general, you have to do something active," Harding said.
Sweden's justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, said that he was convinced the two new criminal offences would make it easier to crack down on gang crime.
"It could be gang leaders, or other people who in various ways enable gangs' criminal activities, without it being possible to tie them to a specific criminal act," he said.
The Swedish police estimate that around 1,000 people would be arrested on suspicion of committing one of the two crimes per year, of whom around 700 could be sentenced to prison.
The police have previously estimated that about 17,500 people are active in a criminal gang in Sweden, with a further 50,000 people linked to various gangs and gang members.
As the new law requires additional limitations to Sweden's constitutional right to free association, it will need two majority votes in parliament, once before a general election and second time after it.
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