Economic crime report 2004 - Ekobrottsmyndigheten

The meetings also follow up on measures taken earlier with respect to
other licensees. They also discuss tips from competitors and the general
public.
SKV, EBM and various traffic units of the police authority frequently
carry out joint monitoring efforts aimed at taxi companies. Special measures
have been taken against taxi operators that fail to disclose income.
Following pressure by the police and others, some municipalities have
banned private automobiles from parts of the centre of town on certain
days of the week. In addition, restaurant owners help spread information
about such taxi companies. Restaurants and places of entertainment put
up posters and hand out flyers to their guests about these operators. Cabs
will have decals urging customers to ride with legitimate companies. The
police authority and university have put together an infomercial about
taxi operators that fail to report their income.
An intercounty, interagency project concerns vehicle imports. All the
cooperating agencies have been affected. Prosecutors have taken on some
40 cases as a result. Similar projects are under way in a number of counties
to which vehicles are imported from other EU countries and in which
VAT, and even income tax, evasion occurs.
Two counties worked together on the guard industry. The purpose of the
effort was to assess the occurrence of unreported income and undeclared
labour, as well as to monitor the sector in other respects. Since guards are
in one sense the long arm of the law, the review was regarded as pressing.
The checks focused on doorman agencies and restaurants. The police
authority arranges the training of, and even approves, doormen. Guard
agencies must obtain authorization from the county administrative board.
SKV gathers information about the industry from the police authority
and county administrative board concerning authorized guard agencies,
police requirements for the number of doormen per restaurant, who has
been approved to work as a doorman in the county, etc. Checks of restaurants
focus on the wages that doormen receive – as well as unreported
admission and wardrobe fees (which account for most of the undeclared
revenue).
The reports of the SAMEBs discuss a number of regional projects aimed
at the construction industry. In 2003, for instance, SKV conducted a
series of crime ring investigations in close partnership with EBM (see
Table 20). Coordinated activities have been directed at staffing companies
that contract out undeclared labour, primarily in the construction and
other contracting sectors. Many representatives of such companies are
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