Håkan Nesser was denied early release with ankle shackles because the Swedish Public Prosecution Service believes the writer lives in isolation and has no employment outside the home. The case was reopened after media attention.
The probation department was supposed to give an answer in the coming days, but the case has now been moved to another unit and is being reconsidered, which is delaying the process, the son said.
"To even out the workload, it sometimes happens that the probation offices help each other with case management," writes Patrik Ahnell, from Frivården Visby to TT, without commenting on the individual case.
Nesser has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison for three counts of aggravated tax evasion.
