2023 | Åklagarmyndigheten

19 December 2023 8.45

Investigation closed concerning suspected murder on ferry in the Baltic Sea

On June 29, an alarm was received that a mother and a child, a six-year-old, had fallen overboard from the ferry between Gdynia in Poland and Karlskrona in Sweden. Both the mother and the child were found in the sea and taken to hospital in Karlskrona where they were pronounced dead. Suspicion arose that the mother had been guilty of murdering the child. The Swedish prosecutor has today closed the investigation because the suspect is deceased. The prosecutor is available to the media today.

24 August 2023 8.59

Trial commences in case regarding complicity in grave war crimes in Sudan

On Tuesday 5 September, the trial starts in the case where two representatives of the then named company Lundin Oil AB, have been indicted suspected of having been complicit in war crimes committed by the then Sudanese regime with the purpose of securing the company’s oil operations in southern Sudan between 1999-2003.

21 June 2023 14.25

Comment from the Prosecutor Concerning Verdict in Case with Artificial Tracheas

Today the Court of Appeal has found a former surgeon at the Swedish hospital Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset guilty of aggravated assault for implanting artificial tracheas in three patients who subsequently died, sentencing him to two and a half years imprisonment.

9 June 2023 9.43

Prosecution brought for i.a. attempted terrorist financing

The prosecutor has today indicted a man in his 40s suspected of attempted serious extortion, serious weapons crime and attempted financing of terrorism. The investigation supports the suspicions that the man acted on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The prosecutor is available for brief comments by phone this afternoon.

6 April 2023 9.00

Still unclear who is behind gross sabotage

Public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, who is in charge of the ongoing investigation concerning the detonations at the gas pipes North Stream 1 and 2, states that the investigation continues but that it is a complex inquiry and a complicated case to investigate.

19 January 2023 11.46

Comment from the prosecutors on verdict concerning gross espionage

Today two men were convicted of gross espionage at the Stockholm District Court. One of them was also convicted of unauthorised handling of secret information. The sentence for one of them was decided to life imprisonment and for the other one 9 years and 10 months imprisonment.