The DN journalist who paid SEK 150,000 to the Kurdish fox network is finally being investigated

Published 27 July 2024 at 17.23

Domestic. Dagens Nyheter's profiled crime reporter Viviana Canoilas is being investigated for money laundering after the transcribed transfer of SEK 150,000 to a drug courier in Rawa “Kurdish fox” Majid's criminal network, Expressen writes. However, without naming his colleague within the Bonnier group.

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According to Expressen, the crime reporter made a transfer to a woman who was recently sentenced to five years in prison for acting drug courier for the Foxtrot network. She then stated that the money was for a “renovation”.

– As far as I understand, no suspicion has been reported. For our part, we are investigating this internally, says DN's editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski to Expressen.

Viviana Canoilas herself writes to the newspaper that he “has not been notified or contacted by the police”.

The preliminary investigation shows that the woman who received SEK 150,000 from Viviana Canoilas directly passed them on to things that cannot be connected for some renovation.

“Not even before the transaction was made is it possible to trace any renovation. Instead, the payments go, among other things, to pay other people's debts and to larger payments to gambling companies,” the preliminary investigation material says.

When Expressen wonders why there seems to have been no renovation, the female crime reporter replies:

“The money was supposed to go to a renovation that never happened. I was cheated”.

It is not the first time that a crime reporter at Bonniers has been singled out for strange relations with the Swedish mafia Expressen's crime reporter Nina Svanberg did a controversial report where she highlighted a gangster rapper in the Death Patrol and at the same time obscured the fact that the man was convicted of gang rape.

Crime reports written by journalists who have more interest in criminals than the purely professional are however, not completely uncomplicated, and usually ends with her (because it's always a she) being reassigned or fired.

Nina Svanberg no longer works in crime journalism and DN writes in the latest case that Viviana Canoilas is for the time being “exempt from work and suspended” and has left his work cell phone and work computer and gone home.