- I had to make sure that he was detained as I was afraid that some patient would simply die, says Chamber prosecutor Thomas Forsberg at the National Anti-Corruption Unit.
It is primarily for addicts that the doctor prescribed the highly addictive opiate Oxycontin, according to the prosecutor.
The medicine is given for temporary pain but also to people at the end of life.
Gang criminals are suspected of having bribed the doctor
In the police's preliminary investigation, it appears that people in the gang milieu in Södertälje are suspected of having bribed the doctor to have the medicine genotropin prescribed.
It is given to short people but is often used in bodybuilding circles to quickly get big muscles.
The Inspectorate for Care and Care, IVO, demanded in October that the man's right to prescribe narcotics be tested after going through the medical records of 19 patients.
The Health and Medical Services Board's responsibility board HSAN, will now try it.
If the man is prosecuted and sentenced for the drug crime, the doctor can also lose his medical license.
Another person is in custody on suspicion of serious drug offences, a man in his 70s who was a patient of the doctor.
The prosecutor will demand five million in corporate fines for the clinic according to the attachment documents.