In the spring, seven people were sentenced to multi-year prison sentences for serious tax offenses and serious business laundry offenses in Växjö District Court.

In the prosecution, a former hairdressing salon in Halmstad has played a central role, and among the accused is a football referee at the elite level and a former local politician.

All defendants deny the crime.

It was the first verdict in the first case in the huge mobile scam - which has been described as Sweden's largest scam scam, with suspected VAT fraud in the billion class (see fact box).

The verdict was appealed to the Göta Court of Appeal, which after a several-week main hearing announced that the person who had been detained, and who was sentenced to the longest prison sentence in the district court, would no longer remain in custody - a message welcomed by his lawyer.

However, the Court of Appeal's ruling means that the principal is still sentenced to prison - albeit a shorter prison sentence than in the district court.

Shorter prison sentences

The verdict also means that several criminal classifications are changed and the sentences are reduced for most of the accused.

• The designated principal who was sentenced in the district court to eight years' imprisonment will have his sentence reduced to six years and six months.

• The person who was sentenced in the district court to seven years also gets six years and six months.

• A defendant who was sentenced by the district court to seven years' imprisonment gets five years in the Court of Appeal and one who has been sentenced to five years now gets four.

• For two defendants, who have had four and seven years respectively, the prison sentence is determined.

• An accused receives a harsher sentence from two years in prison to four years.

• The company Jolumar, the former hairdressing salon that was at the center of the prosecution, will have its fine reduced from ten million to eight million.

• The criminal classifications for which the defendants are convicted also change on a number of points.

The text is updated.

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Deputy Chief Prosecutor about the sums in the mobile loot - "a gigantic theft" Photo: Christoffer Hjalmarsson, SVT