Economic crime report 2004 - Ekobrottsmyndigheten

6. Crime Investigation
6.1 General
EBM, certain other divisions of the office of the public prosecutor, economic
crime squads of the police authority outside EBM’s geographic
jurisdiction and tax crime units are all involved in the economic crime
investigative effort.
EBM handles cases from Stockholm, Västra Götaland, Skåne, Halland,
Blekinge and Gotland counties that involve
• Part 11 of the Penal Code
• the act on safeguarding pension commitments, etc.
• the Tax Penal Act
• the Companies Act
• the Insider Penal Act
and those that
• require special knowledge of finances, the private sector, tax law and
the like
• involve Part 9, Sections 1-3 of the Penal Code if the offence involves
EU’s financial instruments, and Part 9, Section 3a of the Penal Code
• are suitable chiefly because professional crime is involved and the
scope is nationwide, there are international links, or the offences are
principal or far-reaching in nature
6.2 Case Handling by the Public Prosecution Authorities
The figures below cover all cases handled by EBM, as well as those taken
on by other prosecution authorities when coded as economic crime. 12
While both received and completed cases rose for EBM, they levelled off
for the other agencies. The discrepancy between received and completed
cases is a clear indication that EBM had a heavier workload in 2001 and
handled it such that more cases were wrapped up than reported in 2003.
For all the agencies combined, a significantly larger number of cases were
completed than received in 2001. That disparity between EBM and the
12.
The data is taken from the 2003 annual reports of the various agencies, along with previous EBM
reports.
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