{"id":296237,"date":"2024-10-07T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296237"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:23:09","slug":"criminals-rake-it-in-as-violent-crimes-soar-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296237","title":{"rendered":"Criminals rake it in as violent crimes soar in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Liz Heflin \u2013 Remix News Oct 4, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Economic crime has grown strongly in Sweden in recent years, and Swedish society is paying the price.<\/p>\n<p>According to estimates, criminals earn SEK 100 billion to 150 billion (\u20ac8.8 billion to \u20ac13.2 billion) annually in Sweden, reports Swedish state television <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/ost\/100-miljarder-i-vinst-till-kriminella-varje-ar-penningtvatten-okar\">SVT<\/a>. A new police report says the crime economy is taking a huge toll on society.<\/p>\n<p>That money, if diverted to the real economy, could triple the child allowance for all Swedish families with children, notes the report. Annika \u00d6hmark, coordinator of criminal economy in police region East says things will be getting worse before they get better, although she remains optimistic about the future.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As migrant criminal gangs expand their reach, Nordic authorities are grappling with how to contain the spread of violence and exploitation across borders. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6LOkRfJHMm\">https:\/\/t.co\/6LOkRfJHMm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMXnews\/status\/1839315243870158904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition to the black market money creating unhealthy competition, the growing criminal economy is also directly connected to the increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/sweden\/gun-murders-in-sweden-reach-another-record-high-in-2022\/\">murders, shootings and explosions Sweden has seen in recent years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fraud is estimated to be the biggest source of income for criminal gangs, who use extortion and threats to collect fictitious fines or debts. Last year, around 9,000 extortion crimes were reported, 30 percent more than in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6hmark says that\u00a0 \u201cthey trick others into helping with money laundering.\u201d A video clip on the portal tells about how a business couple Norrk\u00f6ping defrauded 15 people, all elderly and disabled, out of several million Swedish krona, using the money to buy luxury items or pay off debts to criminal gangs.<\/p>\n<p>A new law is expected to be passed in November that will give the police new tools to recover the proceeds of crime from criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that if we arrest one person, there are several waiting in line to take over, so we need to continue working against the networks and we need to cooperate with other actors both externally and internally,\u201d says \u00d6hmark.<\/p>\n<p>Money laundering is also an issue, with the Ecocrime Agency estimating that 130 billion Swedish krona (\u20ac11.4 billion) is laundered in Sweden every year. Police say money laundering saw a 24 percent spike between 2022 and 2023 alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/sweden\/criminals-rake-it-in-as-violent-crimes-soar-in-sweden\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surge in crime has been attributed to migrant gangs and Sweden has since tightened its border control. However, the damage has been done and Swedish society will likely pay the price for generations to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":272127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296239,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296237\/revisions\/296239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}