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The preliminary investigation into suspected misconduct in which police chief Mats Löfving was served with suspicion will be closed after the news that he was found dead in his home.
“Due to the fact that the suspect is reportedly deceased, there is no longer any reason to continue the preliminary investigation. It will be shut down,” says Deputy Chief Prosecutor Bengt Åsbäck, according to a press release.
The suspicions concerned two cases of gross misconduct. One suspicion concerned Löfving’s decision to hire Linda Staaf as head of the intelligence unit at the police’s national operational department, Noa, in 2015, as well as a later decision to award her a service weapon. According to the suspicions, he was stubborn in his decisions as there is information that he had a relationship with Staaf at the same time, which he himself denied.
The police’s appointed investigator Runar Viksten, who had been tasked with doing a “complete review” of the matter, presented his report on the case on Wednesday. In it, he concluded that there had been a relationship between Mats Löfving and Linda Staaf, and that he had been involved in four decisions concerning Staaf. However, that did not apply to the decision to hire her as head of intelligence at Noa, according to Viksten’s investigation.
It was during Wednesday evening that the police announced that Mats Löfving, regional police chief and deputy national police chief, had been found dead in his home in Norrköping. The death is being investigated by the police to find out what happened.