It was at the beginning of the year that the Swedish Tax Agency began to review AIK Bandy and its arrangements for paying wages. The AIK players received their money from the stock company Svartgul Bandy, while the Swedish Tax Agency discovered that they were paid from AIK Bandy. AIK had paid in money from the Black Yellow Bandy, just over SEK 800,000, which the Swedish Tax Agency repaid to clear that account. This money should then be paid from AIK Bandy to get it right in the accounts.

- The 800,000 that he (Marco Engborg) talks about, all the taxes have not expired then. He probably has a debt in the association (AIK Bandy) of about the same amount, to be paid. It will be done in December. It's good these days, says the Swedish Tax Agency's Ingemar Andreasson and emphasizes:

- That AIK bandy "earned" SEK 800,000 on our review is wrong. The tax in the association will be no less than what they reported in the Black and Yellow bandy, says Andreasson.

But Engborg, chairman of both AIK Bandy and Svartgul Bandy (who in the spring changed his name to RT Sponsor Sales and is now represented by two Slovak nationals working in Engborg's security company Fortaxa Security) has a completely different view of the process and believes that the 800,000 is something paid back by the Swedish Tax Agency and that AIK Bandy passed plus on the audit.

What I understood from the Swedish Tax Agency was the sum of 800,000 paid back roughly what would be paid back?

- That's not true. We received a payout this week of SEK 816,000, it can't be the same amount, says Engborg.

So the association has no requirements?

- No, there has been a lot of smoke without fire. They have their rules and that must be respected. Had we known that, we would have just moved the money paid from one party to another, says Engborg, claiming that the mess around here about the companies and the money is that AIK did not understand the regulations but that it is now investigated.

The Swedish Tax Agency suspects that AIK Bandy used a scheme to run a company for a year and then put it into bankruptcy without paying taxes and employer fees. And then let a new company emerge for the following season.

In the summer of 2018, the company Snöbollseffekt 1718 went bankrupt with tax liabilities of just over SEK 800,000. For the last season 2018-19, the company was formed Black Yellow Bandy which got rid of its F-tax bill this spring.

Did the Swedish Tax Agency have fears that it would happen again?

- Exactly. Already in March 2019, all the people in Black Yellow Bandy who had with AIK Bandy left to make the board. That company had no board in April and May. Then came other people who have nothing to do with AIK Bandy. Then the company was renamed RT Sponsor Sales. There were well-founded suspicions that something similar was going on, says Andreasson.

The Swedish Bandy Association's licensing committee follows the matter closely. Marco Engborg claims that the elite license is not in danger. However, the union has not granted any permission.

- If it had been clean, we would have granted an elite license, but AIK is under review. I will have a personal meeting with Marco Engborg in January before the material is submitted so that there will be no misunderstanding, says the licensing committee chairman Göran Ersmarker, who had several contacts with Engborg during the autumn.

SVT Sport explains: AIK Bandy is being investigated by the Swedish Tax Agency - what is it about?

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