After a reconnaissance operation, a woman was arrested in Örebro. She had previously been forced to quit her job at a security facility after she was revealed to have a relationship with a prisoner. This time she was suspected of transporting drugs for the Foxtrot network.
In the preliminary investigation, which The Express was the first to report on and which SVT also took notice of, there is a crime reporter in a Swedish newsroom.
Alleged renovation
The crime reporter must have deposited SEK 150,000 into the arrested woman’s account. In the message box it says “renovation”.
According to the preliminary investigation, the money left the account through transactions that cannot be linked to a renovation.
“Instead, the payments go, among other things, to pay other people’s debts and to larger payments to gambling companies,” the police write.
For Expressen, the Örebro police state that “there is currently no report of money laundering” regarding the crime reporter’s deposit.
Under investigation internally
The reporter’s top manager only became aware of the police investigation when Expressen called on Thursday.
– We have sat with the reporter today and received an explanation. We have decided that from today the reporter will not be on duty while we carry out an internal investigation, says the manager to SVT.
SVT: What questions do you still have?
– We must get clarity on what has happened. Why this transaction has been made and why the reporter’s name appears in the preliminary investigation, says the manager and continues:
– As far as I know, no suspicion is directed at the reporter by the police.
The manager does not want to go into what explanation the editors received from the reporter. They must first find out more.
To Expressen, the reporter states that it was cheated: “The money was supposed to go to a renovation that never took place”, writes the reporter in a text message to Expressen.
SVT has searched for the reporter.