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Border inspector is prosecuted - let a cousin's colleague fly in with a criminal
Published 080 AM
A border control officer at Arlanda Airport is charged with failing to report a colleague's trip to and from Dubai together with a flagged "focus person" and thereby exposing Sweden to danger. But even in the event of a conviction, the controller may keep his job.
A colleague of the now indicted border inspector was out in October last year and traveled with a so-called focus person who was flagged in the systems as a security risk and particularly criminally active. Passages of such persons across the Swedish border must always be reported to the Police Authority or Säpo and also which persons they are traveling with. The controller in the current case failed to do the latter.
It is particularly important to report that a police-employed border control officer is in contact with and travels abroad and back with a focus-flagged person as it may involve corruption or criminal or terrorist infiltration. That the now accused colleague failed to report is therefore serious.
Charged with misconduct - but gets to keep the job
The measure was discovered by a group leader at the border police and reported to the police. A criminal investigation was launched and the controller is now being prosecuted for misconduct. But even if he is convicted, he can keep his job, the Police Personnel Responsibility Board has decided that.
The accused and the unreported female colleague are cousins and it has been established that before entering Sweden the woman called her cousin here and asked him not to report that she entered the country with a criminal person. And the colleague complied with that request. In retrospect, the woman has claimed that she asked for the service as "a joke".
Have stated several versions as to why
The cousin who performed the service has for his part claimed that it was not at all because he was asked that he failed to report, but that he lacked personal data on the colleague, despite the fact that they are cousins. When that story was received as improbable as the agency has, among other things, advanced tools to determine the identities of unknown travelers, he changed his mind instead and said that he refrained because he did not want to put his cousin colleague "in the shit".
The accused controller denies any crime and claims that he made mistakes due to misunderstandings, insufficient knowledge of current procedures and also that he was not sure that the cousin was really traveling in the company of the flagged criminal. The prosecutor has nevertheless chosen to bring charges, reports Dagens Juridik .
It is not clear what action, if any, was taken against the cousin/colleague who traveled to and from Dubai with the criminal flagged person.
