Economic crime report 2004 - Ekobrottsmyndigheten

professional criminals to one degree or another. Four of the investigations
uncovered unreported revenue and/or wages.
Table 20
Results of crime ring investigations
Crime ring investigation
Antal
No. of businesses 55
No. of principals 15
Undeclared wages, SEK million 56
Tax amoung, SEK million 37
No. of crime reports 10
In one case, SKV and the police managed to identify 100 people who
failed to declare their income. Some 30 of them had received unemployment
compensation for the same period.
One county has tried a rather original approach to monitoring. On a
number of specific days in 2002, the police, Customs, SKV and KFM
pooled their resources and got municipalities involved as well. Follow-ups
of the effort have found all the agencies favourably disposed to the working
method. The results of a citizen questionnaire were also encouraging.
Among the actions have been a series of unannounced inspections, cash
register checks at restaurants, official visits by KFM and vehicle inspections
by Customs.
As part of interagency cooperation, some counties single out certain suspects
for special surveillance.
An effort has been made to get the better of businesses involved with false
invoices. Such cases usually start with several reports of attempted fraud.
Quickly identifying the company that is responsible for such invoices and
performing the necessary checks with SKV and KFM is of the essence. A
decision was made in October 2003 to put together a group consisting of
a prosecutor and two economic crime investigators to structure such cases
and launch a coordinated effort. The group will comply with the directives
that are expected to follow a joint decision by RÅ and RPS.
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