Published 13 August 2021 at 06.10
Media. After the verdict was handed down in the giant assistance robbery in Gothenburg, SVT is accused of concealing that all 18 convicts were immigrants and that the district court rejected the prosecutor's request for deportation.
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The state television giant is criticized, among other things, by “In the public service”, which examines public service.
The initiative points out on its website that both SVT Nyheter and “Rapport” reported on the verdict in the giant robbery, but that none of them mentioned that four of the convicts “are foreign citizens (Serbia, Romania, Croatia) and that the district court rejects the prosecutor's request for deportation from Sweden. writes In the public service.
“Do not emphasize the ethnic origin of the persons concerned”, it says in the so-called press ethics rules that Swedish media follow and usually refer to when they are accused of obscuring immigrant crime.
Gothenburg District Court on Thursday sentenced 18 immigrants with connections to an assistance company for serious fraud and serious contribution offenses.
The expulsion claims were rejected by the court on the grounds that the offenses, despite being serious, “cannot be seen as a sufficiently serious threat to society's fundamental interests and beyond the disturbance of the order of society which every violation of the law entails “.
The district court considers that it has been proven that the defendants together and in agreement with each other and with the help of an assistance company have committed gross fraud and gross benefit violations against the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and the city of Gothenburg. Co-perpetrators have, among other things, been so-called paper assistants who have not performed any assistance work in the real sense but have returned paid salaries to the principals.
For one of the users, the assistance allowance has been used to arrange employment and support for several family members. These family members have also been convicted of gross fraud and gross contribution offenses against the Swedish Social Insurance Agency./p>
According to the district court, the crimes were mainly committed in such a way that the users exaggerated their needs and thereby misled the City of Gothenburg or the Swedish Social Insurance Agency to grant them compensation for personal assistance, even though they did not need it. The assistance allowance that was then paid has instead been used for the principals' living costs, consumption and private investments.
A small part has also gone to accomplices and to black salaries to some of the people who acted as assistants but who performed tasks other than those covered by the right to personal assistance. These people have to a large extent been poor people from the Balkans and Romania, some of whom were attracted to Sweden in the hope of obtaining a residence and work permit. They have since had to work with various duties for the principals for low black wages plus food and housing.
Of the 22 who were charged in the case, 14 are sentenced to prison for between ten months to seven years and six months. Four are sentenced to a suspended sentence and a fine and four are acquitted. The convicted must also pay large sums in damages to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and the City of Gothenburg.