DN reporter suspended – appears in criminal investigation

Express Frederick Scherschult Found a well-known DN reporter In connection with a trial in Örebro, a woman transported large quantities of drugs and handled millions of dollars in her accounts Dancing Majid Cyber ​​Foxtrot.

Into one of the suspected drug couriers’ accounts, the crime reporter deposited 150,000 Swedish kronor and wrote “renovation” in the message box.

In their investigation into the woman’s finances, police wrote:

“Three or four days after NN paid SEK 150,000, the same amount of money was transferred out of the account for transactions that had nothing to do with any renovations. It was also impossible to trace any renovations before the transactions. Instead, the funds were used, among other things, to pay off debts to others and to make further payments to gambling companies.”

The police checked the woman’s payment status before and after the reporter paid the deposit and found no signs of decoration.

The reporter simply responded to the Express via text message:

“The money was supposed to go towards renovations but it never took place. I was defrauded.”

The Express subsequently asked the reporter whether a report had been made to the police, but received no response.

When Expressen contacted the DN editor-in-chief yesterday Peter Volodarsky He responded that no one in management knew that an employee was involved in a drug investigation and that the reporter had been suspended while DN investigated the case.

today Written by DN It is understood that the journalist has handed in his work phone and service computer, has been suspended from the newspaper system and exempted from work.

Örebro police told Expressen that there were “no reports of money laundering by criminal journalists”.

This morning, the DN editorial board met and decided to hire a lawyer to conduct an internal investigation into the journalist.

Peter Wolodarski did not want to comment on the journalist’s explanation, but said that DN should continue to follow the case:

– We have allocated resources for this. We separate news coverage from personnel matters. Transparency is essentially the lifeblood of all our journalism. This is ultimately a question of trust.