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Sweden opens corruption probe over FM Wallstrom's apartment contract

20 January 2016 [14:20] - TODAY.AZ
The Swedish Prosecution Authority will open a preliminary investigation over whether an apartment rental contract given to Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom by a trade union constituted a bribe, the authority said in a statement, according to The Jerusalem Post. Wallstrom rented an apartment in Stockholm in a building owned by trade union Kommunal from April 2015. While a popular minister among voters, she is one of Sweden's most controversial politicians due to her open criticism of Israel. "I welcome the investigation. I have nothing to hide and it is good that this will be resolved. I continue to do my job," Wallstrom said in a written statement to news agency TT. Chief prosecutor Alf Johansson told TT there were no suspects at this point. 

"First, I will investigate whether a crime has been committed, and in connection with that see if someone can be regarded as a suspect," Johansson told TT. Apartment contracts are a hard to get in Stockholm, where construction has not been fast enough to accommodate a huge number of new inhabitants over the last few decades.

/By AzerTac/
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