Last week, the 30-year-old’s lawyer, Thomas Bodström, sent in a longer justification for the appeal that the defense had previously submitted to the Supreme Court, after the verdict in the Svea Court of Appeal where his client was sentenced to prison for, among other things, an extremely serious drug crime and a serious money laundering crime.
The defense claims that the 30-year-old has not received a fair trial and that he was not able to prepare his defense properly. It is pointed out that the Court of Appeal allowed the prosecutors to change the evidence repeatedly and that the accused was not given access to material connected to the investigation.
Gross error
The lawyer believes that this is a serious trial error, and that the entire hearing should therefore be reviewed in the Court of Appeal. In support of its case, the defense has, among other things, a legal investigation by a professor of criminal law, which goes so far as to say that charges should never have been brought in the case.
“A more unfair judgment has never taken place in Sweden,” Thomas Bodström has previously told Aftonbladet.
“The block for drugs”
When HD will issue a decision on the appeal is unclear.
The site Flugsvamp has been likened to a Blocket for drugs and when the 30-year-old was singled out as the person who ran the site, it was the first time a suspected administrator behind a drug-dealing place in Sweden was prosecuted. In the district court he was acquitted, while the court of appeal sentenced him to prison.
According to the court, it was proven that the man was the sole administrator and responsible for Flugsvamp 2.0 during the almost 3.5 years that the site was up.