Runar Søgaard sentenced to prison

Runar Søgaard is sentenced to one year and eight months in jail for violations of tax and bokføringsloven.

It reports the Swedish newspaper Expressen.

Søgaard had last month meeting at the court home in Sweden. According to Expressen, the cause was that the Søgaard was prosecuted for gross financial crimes, and risked a long prison sentence.

According to the indictment shall Søgaard and a relative have failed to post several million Swedish kronor in the period 2013-2016 - as well as revenue of approximately 390 000.

Even refuses he straffskyld, and told in a statement to See and Hear that he feels treated unfairly.

This is not correct. In this case I have gone good for someone else's debt. There is a big difference between Sweden and Norway if you deliver the accounts late. In Sweden you get a prison sentence, while in Norway, with fines of 18 000. The whole thing is tragic, " said Søgaard to the magazine in January.

On the edge of the law

This is far from the first time the 51-year-old, originally from Aston, is in legal trouble. No later in november he wrote to VG that he was prosecuted for threats against a journalist, and for the illegal use of such images of the offended reporter. the

In 2014, he was also sentenced to two months in jail for violation of the accounting act, a judgment he also served with fotlenke at home. He was also sentenced for similar conditions in 2011, when he for several years had avoided to pay the rent for an apartment in Stockholm. Two years afterwards he made once again the headlines, when he was sentenced to pay nearly a half a million dollars to the american company On Strategies, as a result of pengerot.

Søgaard was also involved in a pengekrangel in 2009, where among other things, he turned up in a bryllupsbutikk and poured 13 000 femtiøringer out on the floor.

He was also convicted and deprived of våpenlisensen after he reportedly shot a deer from the window in his and ekskonas villa outside Uppsala in 1995.

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