Year after year, ground-up car parts and unsorted rubbish have been dumped in Marhult, whose villagers have had to live with its consequences: rats, flying rubbish and a foul-smelling stench.
In the autumn of 2020, Uppvidinge municipality reported one of the companies that drove the rubbish to Marhult, and the real estate company that owns the land, to the police, for environmental crimes and unauthorized waste transport.
Connections to national environmental crime complex
When the preliminary investigation started, it turned out that there were traces that pointed to one of Sweden's largest environmental crime sites, and the investigations were conducted in parallel with each other.
- There are people who appear in the Marhult investigation who have links to a larger investigation regarding a serious environmental crime, which is ongoing at the moment, said Kristina Persson, then prosecutor in the case.
Unable to prove crime
There would be a prosecution in early 2022, but now the investigation into Marhult has been closed.
- There is no longer any reason to complete the preliminary investigation.
On the investigative material that is now available, it is not possible to prove that the person or persons who were suspects have committed a crime.
Further investigation can not be assumed to change the state of evidence in a decisive way, writes current prosecutor Anders Gustafsson in an email to SVT.