The case has its background in a high-profile murder case that took place in November 2020 when a young man was shot dead outside the university in Borås.
The two police officers charged here are suspected of having conducted their own investigation alongside the real murder investigation. The murder has not yet been cleared up.
According to the indictment, the officers allegedly withheld information from investigators. They also allegedly handled a film that allegedly contained important information about the murder. Both deny any wrongdoing.
A police officer was also suspected of breaching confidentiality when she allegedly leaked information about the investigation to the murder victim's family.
The other police officer was suspected of having held an interrogation of a main witness to the murder, in Björn Hurtig's premises in Borås, who had been a defender for one of the suspects in the murder investigation. There, an associate allegedly assisted in conducting the interrogation and is therefore convicted of aiding and abetting gross misconduct.
Lawyer Björn Hurtig, in turn, was suspected of bribing one of the accused police officers. Something Björn Hurtig denied.