Östersunds FK was notified, due to the economic trips that ultimately led to Daniel Kindberg recently sentenced to three years in prison for financial crime, by the Swedish Football Association's licensing committee to the Disciplinary Board and the Representation Board.
But the Disciplinary Board found fairly quickly that the issue could not be considered, as the regulations state that the limitation period expires two months after a wrongdoing became known.
"Got your eyes"But now the rule changes. At yesterday's Supervisory Board meeting, it was decided that in the future it should be possible to prepare a notification six months from the date that a judgment gained legal force.
- Exactly what the considerations are behind is really nothing we comment externally in that way. But it is clear that this process has opened our eyes to what the regulations look like and has given us reason to look at them and what is appropriate about which body to test this, absolutely, says the union's lawyer Anders Hübinette to the Football Channel.
At yesterday's meeting, it was also decided that in future it will be the disciplinary committee that makes decisions about