A famous Western Swedish lawyer sat last week arrested on suspicion of a serious sexual abuse against children.
A few days later, still under investigation, was the same lawyer in court, defending a client accused of sex crimes against a minor.
– I have been served a suspicion, I’m under investigation and has denied the crimes, says the lawyer who in recent years worked in several high-profile criminal cases and even earlier convicted of possession of child pornography.
Two weeks ago the prosecutor in a completely different part of the country’s decision that the man would be interrogated for involvement in a serious sexual offenses against children. He was arrested and sat a while in the custody of the place in Western Sweden where he was interrogated.
The man was later released but was still a suspect in the investigation when he was a few days later appeared at a court hearing to defend a client who stood prosecuted just for sex crimes directed against a minor.
– That I had to take the target was because it was too late to put over it to someone else and I found simply no other, says the lawyer and states that he been open at the law firm of the event.
– Of course, this has affected me personally but otherwise not. I have been transparent to my colleagues and also said that I will remain transparent.
It is not the first time that the lawyer investigated for crimes.
2005 he was convicted for child pornography offenses after police found 236 child pornography images and 39 video sequences at his residence. He confessed and received a punishment of probation and 20 000 in fines.
– That’s right.
Was that too against your negative?
– No, it was not. It’s a long story. I was at that time in a personal crisis and I lived on the internet, you could say, and it is true that I then had been inside the pages that I should not have been on.
After the incident, the lawyer been engaged in a long series of highly publicized criminal cases – even sex crimes.
– I can care to remember a case where I jumped in for a colleague, says the lawyer.
The prosecutors also assigned to the investigation would not discuss the new case. Before the weekend, she noted, however, that the investigation will live on through that no decision to close the investigation.
– I think in general not leave any comment, said the prosecutor.
The Advocate says that he himself does not have full knowledge of the details and circumstances of the crime he was in police custody for more than it should have happened many years ago. The inquiry has been with prosecutors since 2012.
The Bar Association Secretary General Anne Ramberg gets sad when she was informed of the incident. According to her community can not act against a lawyer who continue to work while an investigation against him is ongoing.
– No, but the courts would be able to do it. If we had known about it, says Anne Ramberg and remind you that the man has not been convicted in this state.
The Bar Association’s supervision is limited to what lawyers do in their professional activities. With one exception: financial misconduct.
– We can thus act and expel a member who is guilty of petty theft (fraud offenses), but not if he or she instance convicted of a violent crime, explains Anne Ramberg.
Her organization has requested a change of government.
– The normal in cases involving serious crime is that a lawyer is sentenced himself Resigning.
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