The covenant signing Ostersunds FK - threatened with demotion

It is licensnämnden, who examine the Swedish elitklubbars economies, which, due to the suspected financial crime around The CLUB made two notifications. One has gone to the federation's disciplinary committee and the other to the representative assembly, where all decisions concerning the coming year seriesammansättningar taken.

In tävlingsbestämmelserna is that a club can be punished if it is guilty of financial irregularities.

at the same time want to licensnämnden await the outcome of the trial against, among others, The former chairman, Daniel Kindberg, starting on 24 april.

, the Swedish football association's general counsel, a notification to the shall be made no later than two months after the event occurred or became known. It is the reason that licensnämnden after having taken the part of the police investigation, where many of the suspected financial irregularities became known, chose to make their notifications before the trial.

the Board may on the conviction make a decision on a possible fine for Östersund and a shutdown for Kindberg. The representative assembly could decide that the club may not participate in the advance in the games of the season 2020. According to Anders Hübinette, there may a conviction be to Östersund punished and demoted already in season 2019.

– Licensregeln is forward-looking, and says that a club will be relegated this coming season, " says Hübinette to DN.

be punished retroactively, but to be taken out of the league during the season if it goes bankrupt.

Hübinette realize that a conviction can be appealed and the legal process can drag on.

"this is not a situation we had in the past and it is possible that we need to review our regulations in the future," he says, and insists that neither can or should pre-empt the legal process which now follows.

Read more: Daniel Kindberg strikes back against the UG – ”Serious inaccuracies that need to be addressed.”