Trafficking in human beings for sexual and other purposes - Polisen

Annex 1 – Reporting by the police authorities57months for human trafficking and two years for complicityin human trafficking 91 , respectively. In thesame case, a 21-year-old man from Kristianstad wassentenced to fines based on daily income, for the purchaseof sexual services. The district court consideredit proven that the two ringleaders had recruited andmisled two young women from Romania to travel toSweden to be exploited for sexual purposes. Once inSweden, the women were transported directly to malesex-purchasers after advertising on the internet, anddid not receive any payment.On the other hand, the Court of Appeal did notconsider that there had been any power relationshipbetween the perpetrators and the victims, and insteadsentenced one of the men to imprisonment for twoyears for aggravated procuring, and the second manto prison for ten months for procuring 92 .County of BlekingeIn 2011, a man was convicted in the Court of Appealfor Skåne and Blekinge to imprisonment for twoyears and six months for the rape of a child and thepurchase of sexual acts involving children on threeoccasions.Counties of Kalmar and KronobergIn 2011, the police authority in Kalmar had no activecases relating to human trafficking, procuring andthe purchase of sexual services.The police authority in Kronoberg, however, investigatedone case involving a Swedish man suspected ofraping a German child, aged 18 months, during a tripto Germany. The man was suspected of belonging toa paedophile network with international branches incountries such as Sweden, Germany, the Netherlandsand the United States. The preliminary investigation91 Helsingborg District Court 28.12.2011, Case no B 4188-11.92 Court of Appeal for Skåne and Blekinge 26-03-2012, Case no.B 111-12was completed in spring 2012. The police authoritycollaborated on the case with the National Bureau ofInvestigation, Europol and Interpol.For several years, the County AdministrativeBoard in the County of Kronoberg has been responsiblefor an expert group for the purpose of identifyingand detecting the occurrence of human trafficking.The group includes representatives of the SwedishProsecution Authority, the Migration Board,Social Services and the police authorities in Kalmarand Kronoberg.Central Collaboration Area - Central(thte counties of Uppsala, Gävleborg, Västmanland)County of UppsalaIn 2011, a 32-year-old man was sentenced by the DistrictCourt to a suspended sentence for procuring.The man had rented out his apartment to three twenty-year-oldSwedish women with the knowledge thatthey would be “selling” sexual services to variousmale sex-purchasers. The man also secretly filmed theacts with a hidden camera. The prosecutor called forsix months of imprisonment for procuring andbelieved that the man had also helped the womenadvertise on the Internet. The defence called for a suspendedsentence because the man had lost his jobbecause of the allegations of procuring and becausehe had been detained for just over a month. Accordingto the defence, the man had not earned any moneyfrom the business and had not helped in recruitingsex-purchasers. The District Court took the defenceline and the sentence was not appealed. In this case,for the purchase of sexual services, three men weregiven fines based on daily earnings.County of GävleborgIn 2011, three preliminary investigations were initiatedin connection with human trafficking for forcedlabour, where the suspected perpetrators recruitedten vulnerable people in economically weak areas in