He does so despite the Supreme Court having previously refused to try the case. But the author's representative now claims a trial error, according to Aftonbladet.
The representative writes that the district court did not make an independent review of the Tax Authority's decision. According to the application, the judicial system missed that Nesser's company was wound up in 2012, when he moved back to Sweden, which would mean that it happened before he was taxable in Sweden. The Tax Authority has counted on Nesser's company being terminated when it was registered in 2014, according to the application for retrial.
Håkan Nesser was sentenced by the Svea Court of Appeal to 1.5 years in prison for three cases of gross tax evasion. He and another person were convicted of together having taken out nearly 15 million kronor from a company in Malta without reporting the dividends to the Tax Authority. They admit to providing incorrect information to the Tax Authority, but mean that it was not done intentionally and that they therefore should not be convicted of tax crimes.
Nesser has all the time described it as an unintentional mistake by his advisors. The Court of Appeal, however, considered that he should have realized that there was a great risk that the information was incorrect, and he was therefore considered to have had reckless intent.
Håkan Nesser made his debut as an author in 1988 and has written 48 books that have been sold in around 20 million copies worldwide.
