Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says his state secretary's actions were 'stupid' but should not disqualify him from holding his job.
abc.net.au/news/sweden-eel-fishing-scandal-pm-nilsson-licence-police-traps/101887684Amid fresh uncertainty regarding Sweden's bid to join NATO and an ongoing violent crime wave in Stockholm, Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has been caught up in a scandal involving eel fishing.
Mr Kristersson was reported to a parliamentary committee on Monday by the main opposition party after admitting he was aware a top aide had been caught fishing for eels without a licence and then lying to authorities about it when he appointed that aide as his state secretary. "I had no idea who [the men] were. They had no sign on their boat or clothing that indicated they came from an authority," Mr Nilsson wrote in a post on Facebook apologising for his actions.
More than a year passed before Mr Nilsson was next contacted about the traps, this time receiving a phone call from the Karlskrona Police shortly before Christmas last year — two months after he was appointed as Mr Kristersson's state secretary."I shouldn't have done that — it's better to say it like it is. When the Christmas weekend was over, I called [the police] and changed my information.
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