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full screen The procurement organization ADDA, which is owned by SKR, wants to see requirements for background checks on personnel who procure HVB homes. Archive image. Photo: Tomas Oneborg/Svd/TT
Sweden’s municipalities and regions’ procurement organization ADDA wants people who procure HVB homes to be checked against the criminal record.
ADDA procures goods and services for SEK 20 billion a year, including places in HVB homes.
Åsa Edman, chief legal officer at ADDA, believes that they must be given the right to check managers and procurers against the charge and suspicion registers, and examine whether they have large debts and relationships with criminals, reports Sweden’s Radio Ekot.
Today, too few checks are made, according to Edman.
– The risk is that people come in who have an agenda or suffer from such vulnerabilities that you can be exploited by less calculated, unserious or criminal actors, she tells the radio.
ADDA has sent a letter to the government because they believe that the current situation is problematic.