Medical leasing is Sweden's largest healthcare company in the healthcare industry and has in the past years turned over more than 500 million a year.

But it has always stormed around the company. In 2017, SVT could have told the Medical Lease's auditor to resign because of an infected conflict regarding the accounting of an important item in the annual report.

The company provided a new auditor, but this one gave the company three comments in its audit report. One of them was about the main owner of the company taking out an illegal loan from the company of just over SEK 1 million.

Sentenced in the district court

Prosecutors at the Swedish Criminal Investigation Authority started an investigation which eventually resulted in the Medical Lease Principal owner being prosecuted for violating the Companies Act. Stockholm County Court sentenced him last fall to conditional sentence and daily fines.

Both the principal owner and the prosecutor have appealed against the judgment, and the prosecutor therefore demands that the court sentence the principal owner prison. "The deed has a higher penalty value than the district court has concluded," the prosecutor writes in his appeal.

Several regions have rules that suppliers can be excluded from procurement if they have committed a crime in their professional practice. According to contracting officers with whom SVT has been in contact, it is unclear whether the rule can be applied to any crime involving single-head owners.

Denies crime

The principal owner of medical leasing denies the crime and has jointly submitted an expert opinion as new evidence for the copyright hearing. SVT has sought the principal owner and his lawyer who declined to comment on the matter.

Medical Writing Chairman Roger Jakobsson emphasizes in a written comment that the company is not a party to the case and writes further about the principal owner:

“The person in question also has no active role in either the company or the board and has not had it in recent years. The event that underpins the target happened almost three years ago and the company has subsequently undertaken a comprehensive reorganization of the finance department and initiated a well-functioning collaboration with an external authorized accounting firm. Our relationships with the regions and other customers are good and our assessment is that a judgment, regardless of outcome, will not be affected. "