Drug-trafficking woman is allowed to rent out an apartment

Drug trafficking woman is allowed to rent out an apartment

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full screen A woman sentenced to prison is allowed to rent out her apartment during her prison term following a decision by the tenancy board. Archive image. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT

A woman was caught trying to smuggle ten kilos of cannabis across the Öresund Bridge. She was sentenced to a longer prison sentence and a consequence of this was that the housing company MKB wanted to evict her. Now the rental board has decided that she can keep the apartment, writes Hem & Hyra.

The woman has children and wanted to rent out the apartment during her prison term, which she estimated would be a year, until she was released so that she and the children could then move back. MKB said no to the sublease on the grounds that the prison term was long and that the underlying reasons were not sufficient.

The woman appealed to the tenancy board, among other reasons, on the grounds that getting rid of the home would have severe effects on the children. The rental board in Malmö now follows the woman’s line and considers in the decision that she has “considerable reasons” to rent out the apartment while she serves her sentence.

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