In May 2022, the Uppdrag review revealed that two key people at Securitas, a salesperson and a high-ranking manager, had been involved in bribes in connection with a procurement in the city of Malmö.
Two municipal officials in Malmö allowed themselves to be invited to a pub and a trip to London.
After the disclosure, the salesperson and the manager were fired. Securitas filed a police report and set up an investigation to find out, among other things, whether the problems were more extensive.
Securitas did not make the internal investigation public, but communicated externally that no one other than the two people who had been fired had been involved.
The two civil servants at the city of Malmö also had to leave their jobs.
The police launched a preliminary investigation into bribery. The salesperson at Securitas and one of the officials in Malmö admitted and received penalty orders of 50 daily fines each, which meant fines of SEK 32,500 and SEK 27,500, respectively.
The other Malmö official denied wrongdoing, which led to prosecution and trial. He was sentenced in the district court for accepting bribes on two occasions to 40 daily fines, a fine of SEK 2,000, but has appealed the verdict to the Court of Appeal.
He believes that he was deceived by his colleague and the “salesman” at Securitas. He perceived the invitations as part of a friendship with the “seller”.