A 22-year-old man is charged with having involved two minors in drug trafficking in Linköping. The prosecution is one of the first in Sweden to be brought for the new crime involving a minor in crime.
“The 22-year-old is suspected of letting an underage person store narcotics in his closet and giving him instructions about the storage. He is also suspected of instructing another minor to have contact with buyers and sellers of narcotics,” says chief prosecutor Eva Nemec Nordh in a press release from the Prosecutor’s Office.
The man is also charged with attempted drug crime and serious drug crime.
Involvement of a minor in delinquency became a crime on July 1 of this year. Anyone who hires, pays, instructs, hands over something or otherwise involves a person under the age of 18 in criminal activity can be sentenced to prison for up to four years.
Since before, at least one other person has been charged for the crime.