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user-inactivated  ·  1022 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anom: Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting

    On Monday, police cars rolled into the courtyard of an agricultural property outside Vimmerby in Småland. The reason was that the American FBI and Swedish police had suspected one of the farm's tenants: the multiple drug convict Kjell Johansson.

    - He is suspected of extremely serious drug crime during the period January until the day of arrest, says chamber prosecutor Jonas Peterson to Expressen, who was the first to report on the investigation against Johansson.

    On Thursday evening, SR P4 Kalmar was able to tell that the farm is owned by the former police chief commissioner Göran Lindberg, who was convicted of, among other things, aggravated rape and often called "Kapten Klänning" ["Captain Gown"]. According to SR P4 Kalmar, Göran Lindberg rents out one of the farm's buildings to Kjell Johansson.

    - He has lived here from time to time for many years and usually hangs out with Göran when he is here, a person in the area tells DN.

    According to the population register, Kjell Johansson, who has been described as the leader of the "Grodmansligan" ["The frogman gang"] since the 1980s, moved to Göran Lindberg's property as early as 2014. This was the same year he was released from his most recent prison sentence. Göran Lindberg was also released on parole in 2014, after serving a six-year prison sentence for aggravated rape, rape, sex purchase and assault.

    Unconfirmed information indicates that the men got to know each other when they were both cared for in the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. To residents in the area, however, they must have introduced themselves as "old friends".

    - The perception I have got is that they knew each other since childhood or maybe study time, says one person.

    According to DN's sources, the house search in Göran Lindberg's property lasted until the afternoon.

    - But we did not understand what it was about, says a person who witnessed the police operation.

    Whether any seizures have been made on the farm or not is not known. DN has failed to reach out to Göran Lindberg, who himself is not the subject of any investigation.

    Kjell Johansson has repeatedly been convicted of serious drug offenses since the early 1980s. The latest crime, which resulted in 14 years in prison, involved the smuggling of 30 kilos of amphetamine from Germany to Denmark together with a leader of the criminal group Bandidos MC.

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