It was in April 2021 that charges were brought against people connected to a Gothenburg-based assistance company who are suspected of having exaggerated or invented the needs of care recipients and thus received more than SEK 43 million from Swedish authorities.
In one case, it is suspected that almost SEK 20 million has been paid out incorrectly over the years for one and the same female user.
The 22 people charged with assistance cheating are said to have committed subsidy offenses for over ten years, of the 22, three people have been singled out as the main suspects.
It can be one of the biggest tangle with so-called assistance fraud in Sweden.
The criminal classifications include aggravated money laundering, aggravated fraud and forgery of documents.
"The crime is divided in such a way that the users have a cluster of crime around them with assistants and the main characters who organized the scheme," prosecutor Petter Lundgren told SVT Väst earlier.
Extensive prosecution
The investigation behind the prosecution is extensive, the police have for over a year mapped transactions, travel and records for several different users that the assistance company is in charge of.
The preliminary investigation includes photos and film clips of when people who on paper need extensive help and receive large sums of assistance grants, move freely in grocery stores and participate in festivities such as children's parties and weddings.
The preliminary investigation also shows pictures of receipts for purchases of luxury products such as designer clothes and expensive bags.
In the clip, you see one of the films that was part of the prosecutor's evidence in the case.
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Watch one of the films that is part of the evidence against the woman in the video.
Photo: Police preliminary investigation