The CEO of Think Pink, Bella Nilsson, is once again in trouble after being charged with financial crime.
During a search at the home of the so-called “Queen of trash” was found a badge from a prosecutor at the Ecocrime Authority.
The tray was in her underwear drawer.
Bella Nilsson is the main suspect in the garbage scandal surrounding the waste company Think Pink, which has been described as the worst environmental crime scandal in Sweden. On Thursday, she and three others were charged with several counts of financial crime.
Now, new information about Think Pink’s CEO has emerged, after the police made a puzzling discovery.
On April 4, 2023, the police searched Bella Nilsson’s house and found something unexpected. In her underwear drawer was a badge from a prosecutor at the Ecocrime Authority.
Investigations into money laundering were dropped
The service badge belonged to prosecutor Jan Tibbling. At the time of the crackdown, he had just quit as chief prosecutor at the Ecocrime Authority.
The information can be found in an as-yet-unreleased preliminary investigation protocol, from prosecutor Anders Gustafsson’s prosecution of Bella Nilsson for eco-crime.
Prosecutor Jan Tibbling was a specialist in money laundering crimes at the Ecocrime Authority. During his time at the authority, Bella Nilsson was investigated for, among other things, money laundering, but the investigations were dropped. A decision that was not made by Tibbling himself.
Is now Nilsson’s lawyer
Tibbling is now Bella Nilsson’s lawyer in the environmental criminal prosecution regarding dumped garbage that leaked toxins. It is unclear whether his badge ended up among Bella Nilsson’s underwear before or after he quit the Ekobrottsmyndigheten, a few months before the crackdown.
In a written comment to TV4 Nyheterna, Jan Tibbling writes: “I have shown the tray to the client and apparently forgot it. I don’t know where it was then kept.”
At the time, Tibbling was not yet assigned as a defender in the case. He states that he was her private defender.
The incident with the service badge will not be investigated further, announces chamber prosecutor Anders Gustafsson.
– We are only interested if something criminal has happened, it has not, says Gustafsson.
TV4 Nyheterna has also asked the Ecocrime Authority for an answer to whether it was investigated whether a prosecutor had some kind of private relationship with one of the suspects.
TV4 News story
The environmental crime investigation into Think Pink is Sweden’s largest. Now it is depicted how the company’s CEO Bella Nilsson went from sex club manager to “Queen of trash”.