Ekobrottsmyndighetens decision to discontinue the pre-trial investigation is justified in the first place with that ”any conviction will likely not lead to any further penalty on the penalty that he has already been convicted of”. The prosecutor underlines that it is thereby not taken a position on whether Arnault made themselves guilty of the financial crime that he was suspected of.
”I have no other comment than that the decision is correct and expected,” writes the man’s lawyer Björn Hurtig in a text message to the DN.
Arnault was sentenced at the end of last year to 2,5 years in prison for two rapes. The judgment has been appealed to the Supreme court and the defense have until the end of this week to complete the appeal. Then HD take a position, if leave to appeal is granted.
” We have been conducting an investigation concerning economic crime. We have turned on all the rocks and we might be able to continue the investigation is not of the dignity that it would provide any additional straffpåslag for the case that the person concerned would be held guilty for the charge. This is because he has been sentenced to two and half years in prison for another crime, ” says chief prosecutor Jan Tibbling to DN.
among other things, is a form of tax evasion and false accounting that have been investigated. In the spring of 2018 conducted a search on the Forum and the Swedish Tax agency has assisted in the investigation because the suspected tax evasion. But Jean-Claude Arnault has not been called in for questioning.
” No, we have implemented other measures. We have not shared with the person’s suspicion. The person has had a defender that we have carried out the searches. Then, we have examined the material and come to the conclusion that regardless of what the person says about it here, it would not change the outcome.
– the Framework does not say that it must be a judgment which has the force of law. We have the opportunity to do so here anyway. There may come a notification about something else and this could be a new circumstance. I have not taken a position on it now, we may well consider it in that case if it would happen.
” We may look at it if it should prove necessary. We may monitor it quite easily.
wife Katarina Frostenson is a partner in the partnership that pushed the Forum. But lawyer Per Samuelsson, who represented Miller in the investigation around the breaches of the Swedish Academy initiated, says that his client has not been under investigation relating to the Forum’s economy.
” this does not concern my client Katarina Frostenson, we have not heard one or the other from the prosecutor in this matter, says lawyer Samuelson, DN, and adds that he is ”not surprised” that the investigation is closed down.
launched in april last year. It intensified after the Swedish Academy made the advokatutredning made to identify the links to the kulturprofilen Jean-Claude Arnault and cultural Forums.
the Academy’s law firm had earlier in the spring – as a direct result of what has transpired – recommended the Academy to forward the report to law enforcement authorities. But the Swedish Academy had in a first mode voted against the proposal that the investigation would be handed over, something that contributed to several of the members shortly afterwards left the work.
Sara Danius, who was then the permanent secretary later told the svenska Dagbladet that ”anyone – a member of the board or an individual – has the right to report it to the police and to a certain extent also the duty to do it if you suspect that a crime has been committed”. Kulturprofilen has, on several occasions, through his lawyer denied all the accusations levelled against him.
the Swedish Academy’s permanent secretary Anders Olsson speak out on Tuesday for the SVT culture news and welcome Ekobrottsmyndighetens decision.
” We have cut ties with the Forum a long time ago so I have not much more to say than that it is good that this legal process is completed, and by the right people. It is absolutely right, ” says Anders Olsson to the culture news.
at the end of the 1980s. For several years, were driven to the scene of a limited partnership which then is converted into a partnership. The previous akademiledamoten Katarina Frostenson was one of the company’s shareholders at the beginning of the 1990s. The Forum has for many years been a central place in Stockholm’s cultural life, but after DN’s review of Jean-Claude Arnault in november 2017, shut down both the premises and the scene’s website. The lease agreement with the property owner was dismissed.
After DN reviewed the Forum’s economy in the beginning of 2018, the arts council a review relating to the public contribution paid to the club. During a nine-year period paid out 1.3 million sek to a an associations account that the club had stated that they stood behind. But the association and the company registration number provided has not been registered with the Swedish Tax agency or the Swedish companies registration office. The latest word from the Swedish arts council is to review the results take a couple of weeks.
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