Further sentence increases beyond the government's proposal, including for economic crime
What's at stake: The decision affects whether penalties for, among other things, tax offenses, bookkeeping offenses, fraud, embezzlement and money laundering can be tightened further beyond what the government already proposes, which matters for how organized and economic crime is combated and how high a maximum sentence can be imposed in such cases.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether the government's package of tightened penalty scales is sufficient, or whether the Riksdag should instead call on the government to go further - including by introducing a new tier for extremely serious economic crime with a higher maximum sentence.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee assesses that the overall package - nearly fifty tightened penalty scales, the new rule on joint sentencing, the sentence increase for offenses linked to criminal networks, and the expanded presumption for pre-trial detention - together meets the need for penalties to better reflect the seriousness of crime, in light of the developments in society since the last general review in 1989 and the rise in serious and organized crime. The committee therefore sees no need for the further increases called for in the motions and rejects them.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 4 (S)
The reservation (S) wants to intensify work against economic crime as part of tackling the increasingly complex operations of organized crime, and proposes a new tier, extremely serious offense, for a number of economic crimes - tax crime, bookkeeping crime, fraud, fraudulent inducement to invest, embezzlement, subsidy fraud and money-laundering crime. For these extremely serious offenses the reservers want to raise the maximum prison sentence from six to ten years, and a connection to organized crime should be able to serve as grounds for classifying an offense as extremely serious.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 4 by S.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
V
–
Abstain 0/0/21/0
Sown reservation
–
No 0/105/0/1
MP
–
Yes 18/0/0/0
C
–
Abstain 0/0/23/1
L
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Yes 16/0/0/0
KD
–
Yes 19/0/0/0
M
–
Yes 66/0/0/0
SD
–
Yes 70/0/0/0
Committee proposal
Parliament rejects the motions
2025/26:1277 by Josefin Malmqvist (M) demand 1,
2025/26:1410 by Johanna Rantsi (M),
2025/26:1412 by Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage and Ann-Sofie Alm (both M),
2025/26:1672 by Katarina Tolgfors et al. (M) partial demand 2,
2025/26:2604 by Helena Vilhelmsson et al. (C) partial demand 1,
2025/26:2845 by Markus Wiechel and Alexander Christiansson (both SD) demand 3,
2025/26:3022 by Markus Wiechel et al. (SD),
2025/26:3027 by Noria Manouchi (M) demands 1, 2 and 4,
2025/26:3121 by Kjell-Arne Ottosson (KD),
2025/26:3559 by Mikael Damberg et al. (S) demand 9,
2025/26:3571 by Christian Carlsson (KD) demand 1,
2025/26:3581 by Ulrika Liljeberg et al. (C) demands 3 and 26,
2025/26:3586 by Teresa Carvalho et al. (S) demand 39,
2025/26:4111 by Ulrika Liljeberg et al. (C) demand 2 and
2025/26:4119 by Nooshi Dadgostar et al. (V) demand 1.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2025/26:1277 av Josefin Malmqvist (M) yrkande 1,
2025/26:1410 av Johanna Rantsi (M),
2025/26:1412 av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage och Ann-Sofie Alm (båda M),
2025/26:1672 av Katarina Tolgfors m.fl. (M) delyrkande 2,
2025/26:2604 av Helena Vilhelmsson m.fl. (C) delyrkande 1,
2025/26:2845 av Markus Wiechel och Alexander Christiansson (båda SD) yrkande 3,
2025/26:3022 av Markus Wiechel m.fl. (SD),
2025/26:3027 av Noria Manouchi (M) yrkandena 1, 2 och 4,
2025/26:3121 av Kjell-Arne Ottosson (KD),
2025/26:3559 av Mikael Damberg m.fl. (S) yrkande 9,
2025/26:3571 av Christian Carlsson (KD) yrkande 1,
2025/26:3581 av Ulrika Liljeberg m.fl. (C) yrkandena 3 och 26,
2025/26:3586 av Teresa Carvalho m.fl. (S) yrkande 39,
2025/26:4111 av Ulrika Liljeberg m.fl. (C) yrkande 2 och
2025/26:4119 av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V) yrkande 1.
Riksdag decision: The government wants penalties to better reflect the seriousness of the crimes, the victim perspective to be given increased influence and public protection to be improved. Parliament voted yes on the government's proposal.
The proposal means that
the ten-year limit for fixed-term penalties is removed
approximately 50 penalty scales are increased
a new regulation of the joint penalty scale in cases of multiple crimes is introduced, which means that the highest penalty that can be imposed is the highest maximum penalty doubled
life imprisonment can be imposed as a joint penalty for certain serious cases of repeated violent and sexual crimes
a new penalty increase provision is introduced which targets all crimes that are connected to criminal networks
conditions for remand are expanded to include the crimes of serious violation of women's integrity, serious violation of integrity and honor-based oppression.
The legislative amendments enter into force on 1 August 2026.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to introduce a new sentencing level for serious economic crimes with a maximum prison sentence of ten years. (S) — Reservation 4
Motion 2025/26:3586 — Utgiftsområde 4 Rättsväsendet av Teresa Carvalho m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:4111 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:218 Dubbla straff för brott i kriminella nätverk och skärpta straffskalor av Ulrika Liljeberg m.fl. (C)
Motion 2025/26:4114 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:218 Dubbla straff för brott i kriminella nätverk och skärpta straffskalor av Ulrika Westerlund m.fl. (MP)
Motion 2025/26:4119 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:218 Dubbla straff för brott i kriminella nätverk och skärpta straffskalor av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V)
Motion 2025/26:4121 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:218 Dubbla straff för brott i kriminella nätverk och skärpta straffskalor av Lorena Delgado Varas m.fl. (-)
Proposition 2025/26:218 — Dubbla straff för brott i kriminella nätverk och skärpta straffskalor