svenska kraftnät, the Swedish government has commissioned to maintain and develop the backbone of the Swedish electricity supply. DN revealed in January and February several irregularities at the authority. It has among other things been about konsultupplägg with obvious jävskopplingar and the gaps in security protection.
On 7 February Svenska kraftnät’s director general, Ulla Sandborgh leave the service. This week, another senior manager of the authority end.
, by reason of the tours, launched a preliminary investigation. The classification of the offence relating to the suspected misconduct. ”The who has come up through the investigation of the case gives me reason to believe that an officer under my supervision has been guilty of misconduct,” writes the chief parliamentary ombudsman, Elisabeth Rynning in his decision.
What is the executives who are the subject of the investigation is punishable with the confidentiality of preliminary investigation proceedings. The same applies to the irregularities that are in focus.
Elisabeth Rynning is the investigating authority and has given mandate to the director of public prosecutions Anders Jakobsson to execute the investigation.
at the beginning of the year, documentation from the Swedish national grid, including a description of the internal and external investigations that are underway or planned.
In the week ended one of these investigations, a law firm that at svenska kraftnät, the Swedish mission investigated a high-ranking manager’s actions. During DN’s review, it emerged that he had hired a former partner of a major consulting assignments. In addition, the deleted head of a large number of e-mails in connection with the DN requested documents with reference to the principle of public access. The law firm notes in its report that there has been a conflict of interest, and, moreover, that it was wrong of the person to delete the e-mail. Approximately 4.400 e-mails – almost all in the ”Sent folder” – had been deleted shortly after that the DN sent a request. Among these were such as were public documents, according to the investigation.
in its investigation, that the chief may have been guilty of misconduct. ”We note in this context that, according to Svenska kraftnät’s internal guidelines shall be made a police report as soon as possible if you suspect that a crime has been committed,” it says in the report.
Svenska kraftnät’s press office writes in an email to DN to any police report will not be made because an investigation has already been started.
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