The infiltration was discovered after Stockholm police detectives began to feel that a criminal gang in Sollentuna was constantly one step ahead.
As quickly as the police, for example, got permission to tap some of the network members’ phones, the criminals started to stop using their mobiles.
The police’s Special Investigations Unit, which investigates suspected crimes against members of the judiciary, launched an intelligence operation. You could later call in that it leaked from the Attunda district court, which is located in Sollentuna – a few hundred meters from the gang’s central address.
The suspicions were directed at a 32-year-old woman, a court administrator who was part of a group of trusted employees with access to a locked cabinet at the district court containing sensitive information. There was all the data and information for secret means of coercion, when the police, for example, want to intercept or surreptitiously monitor someone on camera.
Prosecutor: Disaster for the whole machinery
When the police began to intercept and spy on the 32-year-old, you could see how she took pictures of the secret documents from the locked cabinet. Something that was also captured by a hidden camera that the police had rigged in the ceiling of her study. The investigation showed how the woman then sent the material to a gang member ten years younger in the network in Sollentuna.
The prosecutor called the leak a system threat and that it caused “a disaster for the entire machinery”.
In addition, she gave information to a woman, something the prosecutor described as having happened with the aim of “gossip” to a friend.
On Thursday, the woman was sentenced. The 32-year-old was convicted of a serious breach of confidentiality, three counts of breach of confidentiality, a serious data breach and a data breach.
– The district court has come to the conclusion that the prosecutor has proven his allegations regarding all but two of the acts. The district court has acquitted the court clerk of a case of gross data breach and a case of breach of confidentiality, says chief councilor Magdalena Hägg Bergvall in a press release.
Fell in love with the young gangster
The sentence was imprisonment for one year and nine months.
– When assessing the value of the penalty, the district court has taken into account that the accused has acted intentionally and that the crime has in some cases led to the police’s ability to investigate suspicions of serious crime being made more difficult, says Magdalena Hägg Bergvall.
According to the prosecutor, the communication between the court clerk and the gang member indicated that the woman had fallen in love with the man and contacted him through social media. There has been no financial or other motive behind the infiltration. The woman’s friends had also warned her that she was being exploited. Something the 32-year-old himself admitted during the trial.
– I lost myself, she said.
The court leak
The story of how a criminal network is suspected of infiltrating the justice system with the help of a 32-year-old court employee and a younger honey trap.