Woman took job in detention to help criminal

Published 6 May 2024 at 08.55

Domestic. On June 14, 2021, a woman started as a summer substitute at the detention center in Gothenburg. Her purpose: To help the life-sentenced gang member Salam Shebani.

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Among other things, the woman smuggled out letters from the man in which he instructed gang members what to say in the Court of Appeal so that he would be acquitted of the murders he had carried out.

“From a scale of 1 to 10, how corrupt am I?”, the woman wrote in a message to a relative of Shebani, according to the preliminary investigation that Expressen reports on today.

Shebani ordered, among other things, a murder in 2017 of a man with whom he is believed to have had a jealous conflict. For the murder, he promised 50,000 euros in payment.

The woman was eventually convicted of gross misconduct and dismissed from the Probation Service.

The news is the latest of several revelations in which women in the police, the courts and the Probation Service helped criminals in various ways. The Bar Association has also had several exclusion cases where lawyers helped criminals and in one notable case started a sexual relationship with a seriously criminal client.