The Swedish Economic Crime Authority (Ekobrottsmyndigheten)

NordenBladet – The Swedish Economic Crime Authority (Swedish: Ekobrottsmyndigheten, abbreviated EBM or SECA) is a Swedish government agency organized under the Ministry of Justice, with the mandate to investigate and prosecute financial crimes, like dishonesty to creditors, bookkeeping crime, market abuse crime, tax crime and EU fraud.

The Swedish Economic Crime Authority (SECA) is also tasked to monitor and analyse economic crime trends, initiate joint action between authorities and propose legislative changes designed curb economic crime. The agency primarily focus on serious economic crime, with a special emphasis on investigating crime in the financial market and recovering the proceeds of crime.

History
SECA was set up in 1998, to safeguard the expertise of experienced police officers and prosecutors, who often got assigned to other types of investigative work, not related to economic crime. The authority was the first in Sweden to co-house police officers and prosecutors under the same roof.

Organizational structure
The agency operates nationwide, with a headquarters in Stockholm, and consists of approximately 560 employees. There are about 100 prosecutors and 230 police officers of different specialities, analysts, forensic accountants and administrative staff. SECA is led by Director-General Eva Håkansson Fröjelin and the operational activity is organized into several units: Public Prosecutions Unit, Legal Unit, Development Unit, Administrative Unit, Economic Crime Office and the Chief of Staff.

Area of responsibility
SECA´s objectives are to prevent, investigate and institute legal proceedings against economic crime. In an extended view this also includes to monitor and analyze criminal trends and act as a referral body regarding legal development.

We play a vital role in combatting organized crime and in preventing the effects of criminality as a threat to the mechanisms of fair competition in a free market as well as on the stock market.

We are also responsible for coordination and other measures against economic crime, including the development of methods to combat economic crime more effectively. The Authority has also been instructed to provide information on economic crime to other authorities, municipalities, industry, organisations and the general public.

SECA has also founded two councils of significant importance, the Economic Crime Council and the Forensic Council. The purpose of the Economic Crime Council is to be responsible for coordinating authorities at a central level. The council has regular contact with bankruptcy administrators and trade and industry, for example banks and other industry organizations, including the Auditors´ organization.

The forensic Councils work is strategic and advisory and focuses on analysis of development within trade and industry, identification of new risk areas and gives advices on specific competence in complicated investigations.

Website: ekobrottsmyndigheten.se

E-mail: huvudregistrator@ekobrottsmyndigheten.se

Main office
Box 22098, 104 22 Stockholm
Visiting address: Fleminggatan 14
Tel +46 (0) 10 – 562 90 00
Fax +46 (0) 8 – 613 40 19

Stockholm
Box 820, 101 36 Stockholm
Visiting address: Hantverkargatan 15
Tel +46 (0) 10 – 562 90 00
Fax +46 (0) 10 – 562 91 01

Uppsala
Box 898, 751 08 Uppsala
Visiting address: Kungsängsgatan 18 A
Tel +46 (0) 10 – 562 90 00
Fax 018 – 69 44 01

Malmö
Ekobrottsmyndigheten, 205 90 Malmö
Visiting address: Porslinsgatan 4 B
Tel +46 (0) 10 – 562 90 00
Fax: +46 (0) 10 – 562 96 00

Göteborg
Box 431, 401 26 Göteborg
Visiting address: Ernst Fontells plats
Tel +46 (0) 10 – 562 93 00
Fax: +46 (0) 10 – 562 94 00

Linköping
Box 432, 581 04 Linköping
Tel +46 (0) 10 – 562 98 90
Fax +46 (0) 13-13 69 01

Umeå
Box 3198, 903 04 Umeå
Tel +46 (0) 10 – 562 90 00
Fax +46 (0) 90-13 56 02