The Court of Appeal sentenced the former Swedbank CEO to one year and three months in prison for aggravated fraud. The court found that she had provided misleading information about links to money laundering in Danske Bank's operations in Estonia in interviews with SvD and TT in connection with the interim report in October 2018.
The Supreme Court granted leave to appeal and will now decide whether the statements were illegal under fraud legislation.
What responsibility does an interviewed person have for what the journalist chooses to publish? I think that is the real question of precedent, says Per E Samuelson, Bonnesen's lawyer, to TT.
Samuelson believes the chances of an acquittal are "extremely good".
