Officials at the supervisory authority The Swedish Agency for Family Law and Parental Support (Mfof) has throughout the 2000s alerted about suspected irregularities linked to adoption.
It writes Dagens Nyheter, which in several articles has examined adoptions and previously, among other things, told about how children have been stolen and had their identities forged.
The country of origin is responsible
The problem is that Swedish adoption associations and authorities do not know if the children to be adopted are really abandoned.
The agency's director general Per Berling says that it cannot be guaranteed that today's adoptions to Sweden are completely legally secure and ethical.
- It is the country of origin that is responsible for the child reports and we have seen these shortcomings for a long time.
We see an improvement, but we wish it went faster, says Per Berling to DN.
After the newspaper's review, Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren also opens up for the government to review how the adoption agency functioned in Sweden during the 1960s to 1990s.
Mothers have had their children pronounced dead
The reporter Patrik Lundberg, who has done the review together with Josefin Sköld and Alexander Mahmoud, visited SVT's Morgonstudion.
- In the very worst cases, it is mothers who have had their children declared dead right at birth.
Since then, the children have been taken away and they have never been allowed to meet them again, says Patrik Lundberg in SVT's Morgonstudion.
Madeleine In-hwa Björk was adopted when she was two years old and has now searched for her roots.
- My grandmother took me when my mother was at work and handed me in to an orphanage, it says in the papers that my mother was with and handed me in, but where she should have signed it was empty, she says in Morgonstudion.