It was a municipal employee in Södertälje who became suspicious and raised the alarm – how do the siblings have time to help their father, who after a stroke was granted 24/7 assistance by the Social Insurance Agency, at the same time as they have successful careers and live outside Södertälje?
Two years of reconnaissance work
In August 2021, after two years of detective work with, among other things, secret means of coercion, the police strike against the family in a dawn raid.
According to the prosecutor, the five siblings and a son-in-law should have helped the sick father with assistance, but in fact they worked elsewhere.
The evidence in the case is mainly based on “collisions” – which, according to the prosecutor, show that the children were in a different place than at the father’s home during scheduled work shifts.
At some times they were at their jobs, and at others in the mountains or in Spain. Another central part of the evidence is the siblings’ group chat.
Cheating for six million
They were accused of having cheated themselves of six million for over four years.
“The crime of fraud is serious as the acts were committed systematically, on a large scale over a long period of time and through untrue certificates and significant amounts intended,” writes the prosecutor in the lawsuit.
Now six people in the same family are being sentenced to prison for several years for gross crime of contribution. The father is acquitted, while the mother is convicted of aiding and abetting a serious child support offence. She is sentenced to daily fines.
– It is a question of systematic crime on a large scale and which has been carried out for a long time. It has targeted an important part of the welfare system and can therefore on good grounds be described as threatening the system, says chief councilor Claes Söderqvist, in a press release.
All involved deny wrongdoing.
Hear more about the evidence in the video below.