Iraq's defence minister, Najah al-Shammari, has been reported for benefits fraud in Sweden after allegedly claiming child and housing support for years, despite living in Baghdad, according to reports in Sweden.
Sweden's financial crime unit said on Wednesday it had received a complaint against Scandinavia's biggest bank, Nordea, for alleged money laundering following on from a massive scandal engulfing Danske Bank.
One of Malmö’s leading business owners has been held pending trial for insider trading connected to the $1.1bn sale of local property company Victoria Park.
The city of Malmö has reported Sweden's biggest private education company to the police for allegedly overbilling them at least 4.7m kronor for SFI (Swedish for Immigrants) courses.
A growing number of Swedes are victims of crime, according to the Swedish Crime Survey published by the country's <a href="https://bra.se/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statistics.html">National Council on Crime Prevention (Brå)</a> on Wednesday.
A startup, four banks and a superstore are understood to be among a number of organizations hit by a Swedish hacking and fraud attack that has now led to trial.
Police in Sweden are warning the public to avoid answering calls from unknown foreign numbers after apparent telephone scammers from Somalia targeted Swedish phones.
A woman suspected of killing her father in a high-profile Swedish murder case is likely to be convicted despite a lack of technical evidence, experts say.
Fraud, forgery, bribery, threats, drowning and stabbings: it's not the work of fiction, but the details that have now emerged from a high-profile Swedish murder case. The Local picks apart the key allegations from the complicated "summer cottage murder" case.
Swedish personal data and ID documents are being sold and rented out online via Russian-language forums in Sweden, according to a report by Sveriges Radio's Ekot show.
Swiss-Swedish engineering giant ABB has uncovered significant embezzlement at its South Korean subsidiary, which it warned would heavily impact its 2016 earnings.
A Swedish ex-finance director of supermarket chain Tesco UK is among three former senior directors charged with fraud in an accounting scandal grabbing headlines in international media.
UPDATE: Mona Sahlin has stepped down from her position as Sweden's national coordinator against violent extremism, after revelations that she had misrepresented her bodyguard’s salary to help him secure a mortgage.
Swede Lars Wallin claimed he needed round-the-clock care but was caught on holiday in Cairo. Now, Sweden's most famous benefits fraud is being extradited back home after going on the run to Brazil.
A Swedish man who conned the state out of 13.5 million kronor ($2 million) by claiming he was wheelchair bound and needing 24-hour care has been arrested in South America after being on the run for over a year.
The Swedish tax agency (Skatteverket) has uptaxed a restaurant in southern Sweden after investigators launched "Operation Rice Cooking", and turned to a saucepan to prove the fraud.
Swedish passports are changing hands for as much as 80,000 kronor ($12,200) on the black market and being routinely used for human trafficking, prompting the government to launch an investigation into passport abuse according to a new report.
A 47-year-old who went on holiday in Egypt while posing as handicapped in Sweden and claiming millions in benefits is being sought by Interpol after failing to show up to serve his four year prison sentence.
The Swedish sports world has been rocked by a migrant labour scandal whereby sports clubs duped migration authorities with sham contracts for foreign players.
