Money laundering offences etc.

The plan asserts that punishment and other penalties need to be carefully designed to actually lead to lower crime and not worsen problems, and that harsher measures are not the main track. The counter-proposal's reasons are primarily deterrence and signal value, which the plan is skeptical of. The plan instead wants to meet economic crime with effective monitoring and increased oversight, which is why support for a special sentencing scale review is lacking.

• penalties shall give lower crimedecisive»Straff och andra påföljder för brott behöver vara noggrant« (party programme ↗)“Punishment and other penalties for crime need to be carefully”
• sentence enhancement not the main track»Vissa straff kan behöva höjas men mycket mer fokus måste riktas mot att förhindra rekryteringen av nya barn till gängkriminalitet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Certain sentences may need to be raised but much more focus must be directed towards preventing the recruitment of new children into gang crime.”
• effective monitoring instead of signals»Det behövs en effektiv uppföljning av den organiserade« (party programme ↗)“Effective monitoring of organized”
• smarter crime control»För att få ner brottsligheten går det inte bara att vara hård mot de kriminella, det gäller att vara smartare än de kriminella.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“To reduce crime it is not enough to be hard on criminals, you have to be smarter than the criminals.”

The election manifesto establishes that money laundering shall be stopped and that penalties shall be sharpened, among other things for those who support organised crime, as part of cracking down hard on the financing of organised crime. A special review of the penalty scale for money laundering offences is an application of that commitment. The plan thus speaks for the counter-proposal's demand.

• stop money launderingdecisive»Skattefusk, välfärdsbrottslighet och penningtvätt ska stoppas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tax evasion, welfare crime and money laundering shall be stopped.”
• sharpened penalties»Vi vill skärpa straffen bland annat för gängrelaterad brottslighet, för den som begår upprepade och allvarliga brott och för den som understödjer organiserad kriminalitet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to sharpen penalties, among other things for gang-related crime, for those committing repeated and serious crime and for those who support organised crime.”
• against crime financing»Slå hårt mot den organiserade brottslighetens finansiering och organisation.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Crack down hard on the financing and organisation of organised crime.”

The plan wants to strangle the criminal economy and stop illegal money flows, and it wants to give law enforcement authorities the tools needed to fight crime. This argues for a special review of the sentencing scale for money laundering offences. At the same time, the plan emphasises that sentences primarily have a crime-prevention and rehabilitative purpose rather than a deterrent one, which is why the support is weakly grounded.

• strangle criminal gangs' financingdecisive»stoppa finansieringen av de kriminella gängen genom att stärka myndighetssamverkan« (2022 manifesto ↗)“stop the financing of criminal gangs by strengthening inter-authority cooperation”
• stop illegal money flows»Företags skatteflykt ska stoppas.« (party programme ↗)“Corporate tax evasion shall be stopped.”
• tools for the justice system»som krävs för att bekämpa kriminaliteten och öka« (party programme ↗)“that are needed to fight crime and increase”
• sentence's purpose»Brottspåföljder har både ett brottsförebyggande« (party programme ↗)“Sentences have both a crime-prevention”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The manifesto explicitly wants an investigation into gang income and how it can be cut off to be carried out, and money laundering is the channel that makes those incomes usable. The plan also advocates stricter sentences as part of the fight against organised crime, which calls for a particular review of the sentencing scale. Stricter anti-corruption rules point in the same direction.

• cut off gang incomedecisive»Dessutom bör en utredning om gängens inkomster och hur dessa kan strypas genomföras.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Moreover, an investigation into gang income and how it can be cut off should be carried out.”
• stricter sentences for gang crime»Samhället ska inte vika sig för gängen. För att besegra dem krävs bättre insatser som förebygger nyrekrytering, mer resurser till polis, åklagare, domstolar och kriminalvården och strängare straff.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Society shall not yield to gangs. To defeat them requires better preventive measures that discourage recruitment, more resources for police, prosecutors, courts and prisons, and stricter sentences.”
• tightened rules against economic crime»Vi vill inrätta en antikorruptionsmyndighet, skärpa regler mot korruption och införa ett lobbyregister.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to establish an anti-corruption agency, tighten rules against corruption and introduce a lobbying register.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme explicitly allows for tightening prison sentences for specific crimes when it is necessary to mark the seriousness of the crime, which is precisely the reason the counter-proposal gives for a review of the sentencing scale for money laundering. The plan also wishes participation in organized crime to result in stricter sentences, and money laundering is a central part of such criminality. The election manifesto's line on tightened sentences points in the same direction.

• tightened sentences mark seriousnessdecisive»Det kan även finnas särskilda brottstyper där det kan vara befogat att skärpa straffsatserna för att underlätta rehabilitering eller markera allvaret i den kränkning som brottet utgör.« (party programme ↗)“There may also be specific crime types where it can be justified to tighten prison sentences to facilitate rehabilitation or mark the seriousness of the violation that the crime constitutes.”
• stricter sentences for organized crime»Påföljdssystemet ska förändras så att återfall och upprepad brottslighet ger strängare straff, liksom medverkan i organiserad brottslighet.« (party programme ↗)“The sentencing system shall be changed so that recidivism and repeated crime result in stricter sentences, as does participation in organized crime.”
• tightened sentences»Vi vill avskaffa dagens mängdrabatt på brott, slopa den närmast automatiska frigivningen från fängelsestraff och skärpa straffen för bland annat vapenbrott, våldtäkt och utpressning.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We wish to abolish today's quantity discount on crimes, eliminate the nearly automatic release from imprisonment and tighten penalties for, among other things, weapons crimes, rape and extortion.”
• cross-border crime prevention»Gränsöverskridande brottslighet måste mötas med en gränsöverskridande polis.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Cross-border crime must be met with cross-border police.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan is based on punishment following crime and all crimes being effectively and without exception prosecuted, and the election manifesto consistently drives heightened penalty scales for serious crime. A special review of the penalty scale for money laundering, which strengthens the deterrent aspect, is in line with this as well as with the plan's requirement for close EU cooperation against serious cross-border crime.

• all crimes shall be prosecuteddecisive»Alla brott ska effektivt och utan undantag beivras« (party programme ↗)“All crimes shall be effectively and without exception prosecuted”
• heightened penalty scales»Skärp straffet för vapenbrott till lägst fem års fängelse.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Increase the penalty for weapons offenses to at least five years imprisonment.”
• against cross-border crime»motverka allvarlig gränsöverskridande brottslighet« (party programme ↗)“counteract serious cross-border crime”
• integrity in the economy»Det bör också utformas så att det stimulerar arbete, hederlighet, sparande och företagande.« (party programme ↗)“It should also be designed so that it stimulates work, integrity, savings and enterprise.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan identifies money laundering as one of the criminal gangs' core activities and makes it a main priority to take the gangs' money. It also establishes that trust in the rule of law is undermined when punishments do not correspond to the crime's severity, which is exactly the reason the counter-proposal gives for a special review of the penalty scale. The plan otherwise tightens the punishments for economic crime.

• strangle gangs' economydecisive»Ta gängens pengar och införa en omvänd bevisbörda för att kunna beslagta gängmedlemmarnas lyxprylar« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Take the gangs' money and introduce reversed burden of proof to be able to confiscate gang members' luxury goods”
• punishments must match crime severity»straffen inte motsvarar brottets allvar riskerar det att undergräva förtroendet för rättsstaten.« (party programme ↗)“punishments do not correspond to the crime's severity risk it may undermine trust in the rule of law.”
• money laundering in criminal gangs»Hederskultur, organiserad brottslighet, penningtvätt och systematiskt bidragsfusk.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Honour culture, organised crime, money laundering and systematic benefit fraud.”
• tightened punishments for economic crime»Skärpa straffen för bidragsbrott« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tighten punishments for benefit crimes”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan wants to make the criminal lifestyle unattractive, among other things through extensive possibilities to seize assets in the circle around criminals, and demands sharply increased sentences generally. A special review of the penalty scale for money laundering is a means in the same direction: to strike at criminal economy and mark how socially damaging crime is. The plan does not mention money laundering explicitly, so the conclusion is derived.

• strike at criminal economydecisive»Polis, socialtjänst och kronofogde ska ges verktyg att statuera exempel och göra den kriminella livsstilen oattraktiv, t.ex. genom långtgående möjligheter att beslagta tillgångar i kretsen kring kriminella« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Police, social services and the enforcement authority should be given tools to make examples and make the criminal lifestyle unattractive, e.g. through extensive possibilities to seize assets in the circle around criminals”
• sharply increased sentences»Sverigedemokraterna vill kraftigt skärpa straffen och genomföra kraftiga satsningar på polis, åklagare och anstalter.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The Sweden Democrats want to sharply increase sentences and implement vigorous investments in police, prosecutors and prisons.”
• proportional sentences»Införa straff som är proportionerliga« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Impose sentences that are proportional”
• tools against organized crime»Ge rättsväsendet resurser och verktyg för att bekämpa gängen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Give law enforcement resources and tools to combat gangs”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.