- In the week the bet was seizing we totally 41 persons who had two things in common.
They are suspected of breaking the sexlovgivningen - and they are all men.
- The intercepted are from all layers of society. F. ex. there was an unemployed person, a student, an executive director, a new father and a tourist.
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How to write the two Swedish police officers Linnea and Elin in a very popular postings on the Stockholm Polisens Facebookprofil on the catch, they did for a month or so ago at a brothel. And the officer Linus has added a text about how the 41 men are punished:
- It is illegal to buy sex and also illegal to try to buy sex.
- There are both fines and jail time (max a year) on straffeskalaen, and the trials are estimated often to 40 day fines, while enforced sexkøb costs 50 daily fines. The fines depends on the forbrydernes income.
- In this instance, acknowledged about 20 of the men, and got the fines in the order of several thousand and up to 50,000 Swedish kronor (about 35,000 Danish kroner, ed.).
- Those who are not acknowledged in court, writes Linus, and the newspaper Aftonbladet has actually spoken with the man who got the fines to a total of dkk 50,000. He is director for personnel in a Swedish milliardforetagende and has responsibility for several thousand employees:
- I have done something you should not, but I will surely stand by what I have done.
– I have it really bad over here. I've never done this kind before.
(question from reporter): Have you told your employer?
- No, I have not, says the man, who is in the fifties, to the newspaper, but what do you say?
See also: Stangstiv politician bought sex: Can't remember why
