Updated 12.12 | Published 12.04
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full screen Company manager Karl Hedin was suspected of, among other things, serious hunting offences, but was acquitted in both the district court and the court of appeal. Now he is suing the state. Archive image. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT
Company manager Karl Hedin is suing the Swedish state after he was acquitted in a well-known hunting crime case two years ago.
In the lawsuit – which was submitted to the Stockholm district court on Monday – Hedin demands damages for the gross and illegal errors he believes he has been exposed to.
According to the lawsuit, it concerns, among other things, illegal wiretapping, incorrectly reproduced telephone calls and an unfounded deprivation of liberty. Earlier this year, Karl Hedin turned to the Chancellor of Justice with a claim for damages of 8.3 million.
That demand was rejected – instead, Hedin was awarded SEK 31,000 in compensation.
– The money does not matter at all for Karl Hedin. But this is the only way for him to get some kind of redress, says Hedin’s lawyer Klas Bjuremark to TT.
Karl Hedin was arrested at the end of October 2018. He was later charged with, among other things, serious hunting offences, suspected of having illegally hunted wolves. Both the Västmanland District Court and the Svea Court of Appeal acquitted him on all points in the case.