Mona Sahlin and her former bodyguard had a close friendship relationship when she handpicked him to the well-paid job in the State Committee, she led.
It confirms Mona Sahlin herself in a podcast interview from the end of last year.
– My very best friend, she says, where the former bodyguard.
Chief prosecutor Anders Jakobsson think that the task is interesting for the police investigation.
Mona Sahlin had to resign as the government’s national coordinator against violent extremism after the Expressen revealed that she signed a false income certificate to his former bodyguard.
in parallel, prosecutors launched a preliminary investigation concerning suspected misrepresentation or alternatively grossly misrepresentation and misuse of misrepresentation.
the question to be examined is whether Sahlin had the intent to sign false certificates – or it can be blamed on mistakes or negligence.
Now there is a new piece available for the investigators to a podcast interview with Sahlin from the end of last year on Friday has been spread in social media.
Mona Sahlin’s own words about close relationship with the bodyguard
in the interview Sahlin own words about his close relationship with former bodyguard, she mentions a number of personal details about him and described him as his “absolute best friend today.”
There is evidence already that the bodyguard has attracted great advantages of the false salary certificate Mona Sahlin wrote for him. With the help of a certificate, he bought a condominium in exclusive Saltsjöbaden for ten million. Another certificate helped him to get a loan to buy an Audi R8 – a sports car in the millions.
The former bodyguard also shows the last week’s series of revelations, treated differently from other employees in the state Committee. He has been the only committee that reported directly to Mona Sahlin and he has not had to attend to a long series of working meetings. Other employees at the national coordinator against violent extremism, according to TV4 described him as “The Ghost,” because he never seemed to work.
Expressen also revealed last week that the former bodyguard was the only employee with its own garage space, a VIP parking at a cost of SEK 50 000, paid by the taxpayer. A garage that Mona Sahlin personally pushed through by the Committee Secretary Daniel Norlander refused to accept the arrangement.
Relative received internship
At the same time a close relative of the former bodyguard an internship at Mona Sahlin – even though the ministry had earlier said no. Mona Sahlin rounded rejection by taking in livvaktens close family members as their personal trainee, without salary or official trainee job.
In 2014 tried Sahlin hiring former bodyguard, whom she thus describes as his “very best friend” the Committee, which was then under the Department of Justice. When she got no because of their past connection. As national coordinator against violent extremism was moved to the Ministry of Culture after the change of government in 2014 did Sahlin another try – and obtained a job at the beginning of 2015.
Helena Sundén, Secretary General of the Institute for bribes, has previously said in Expressen reporting raises questions about cronyism, which are “very serious on the basis of the trust aspect”.
– this is a decision that has a great trust, and that seems to have taken a number of decisions for the benefit of a specific person interest completely outside the legal framework is established. I think that’s a pretty graphic example of what is from a general perspective can be called cronyism, says Helena Sundén.
The prosecutor: “Totally new to me”
Chief prosecutor Anders Jakobsson leading the preliminary investigation of suspected misrepresentation and abuse of misrepresentation. He says the task of Mona Sahlin describes the former bodyguard and the employee as “his absolute best friend”:
– I have not had access to all. It’s all new to me, that you mention now.
– We’re up to fact-finding, and we will gladly take everything we can get from the newspapers and the public and we ourselves can dig up. It will obviously have an impact on the conclusions that you then will come up, says chief prosecutor Anders Jakobsson.
How do you see that Mona Sahlin, describes him as their best friend?
– If there is to affect the intent assessment is far too early to assess because no one is reasonably suspected. No one has served suspected offense. In order to obtain a basis and to make an assessment whether it then is someone who is reasonably suspected as are all of the material is very important.
Mona Sahlin’s lawyer, Claes Borgström is on Friday evening taciturn after the new information about Sahlins and livvaktens friendship.
– I can only say that it is clear that one can hire good friends.
– it’s the only comment I have, says Borgström.
Expressen have searched Mona Sahlin.
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