The district court freed the man because the possible crimes could be prescriptive. In the appeal, the prosecutor points out that there may be other ways of calculating the limitation judgment and thus the possibility for the High Court to reach a convicting sentence.
Behind the indictment against the man lay a comprehensive inventory of the Mint Cabinet, which began as early as 2013 and showed that Swedish objects worth almost SEK 6 million are missing from the collections. In addition, foreign coins, valued at just under SEK 20 million, are gone. In 2017, another former employee was convicted of theft from the Cabinet.
In the present case, the man and the prosecutor have agreed that he sold the items in question. But while the prosecutor claimed that through technical investigations they can be traced to items missing from the Royal Coin Cabinet, the 45-year-old has argued that the coins and tokens he sold are inherited or purchased from other coin collectors.