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Driver got municipal job with fake driver's license

A man who got a job as a professional driver in Södertälje municipality got his employment with the help of a fake driver's license. Three years earlier, the man had killed his former boss, reports SVT Nyheter Skåne.

» Updated: 16 August 2024, 16:57

» Published: 02 June 2024

Driver got municipal job with fake driver's license
Photo: Erik Simander/TT

A man who got a job as a professional driver at Södertälje municipality got his job with the help of a fake driver's license.

Three years earlier, the man had run over his then-current boss, reports SVT Nyheter Skåne.

According to an investigation by SVT Skåne, it is few municipalities that check if driver's licenses are genuine at the time of hiring.

Of the 135 Swedish municipalities that responded to SVT's survey, all except three lack routines for verifying the authenticity of a driver's license.

The driver's license-less man was employed by the municipality in 2017 and showed a Bulgarian driver's license that was never checked. The man drove heavy vehicles in his job and was not discovered until he caused an accident with a crane truck.

The insurance company checked the driver's license against Bulgarian authorities and found it to be fake, and the man was fired.

An investigation showed that the man had three years earlier run over his then-current boss. The man was employed at a workshop and was carrying out a task with his boss when he drove at very high speed and ran straight into a truck on E4 outside Linköping.

When the man was later employed at Södertälje municipality, he showed the same driver's license as at the time of the accident.

According to SVT's investigation, both the police and the Transport Agency had botched their investigations, which allowed the man to continue using his fake driver's license.

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