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Fraud in Stockholm Public Transports
Local News | 2009-11-18 | 4 comments
SL, the body that organize the public transports in Stockholm, is in trouble after having paid large amounts to subcontractors for departures that never existed.
The subcontractor Busslink operates on behalf of SL on some bus lines in Stockholm. Yesterday the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) revealed that Busslink has sent invoices to SL for extra departures that never existed.
On the route Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) to Norrtälje, there have been extra departures worth SEK 5.7 million so far only this year. However, many of the extra departures have only existed in theory and on the invoices Busslink sent to SL. According to drivers that DN has spoken to, this has been gong on for several years.
The management of SL is now critisised for being incompetent and for having no control over the taxpayers’ and travelers money.
Gunilla Roxby Cromvall in the board of SL is very critical. She says to DN:
- There is a big risk that this s not only about Busslink. If the control is this bad, it is very possible that we have had to pay for more traffic that never existed. With these kinds of shortcomings in the organization it may also concern other areas, like security, cleaning etc.
SL will also investigate the claims that employees at Busslink arrived to the birthday party of one of the company’s executives in a bus that SL later paid for.
According to the chairman of the SL-board, Christer G. Wennerholm, it is very possible that the investigation will come to the conclusion that the contract with Busslink shall be terminated completely.
Facts: SL (Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, the local transports in Greater Stockholm) is a publicly owned company. The board consists of representatives from the political parties. SL is financed by about fifty percent tax money and about fifty percent ticket revenues. Since a few years ago, SL does not run the traffic themselves; instead they give different private companies the task to perform the traffic on certain routes.
Busslink drives all the local buses in Stockholm inner city and seventy percent of all public bus traffic in the region.
Fraud in Stockholm Public Transports
Local News | 2009-11-18 | 4 comments
SL, the body that organize the public transports in Stockholm, is in trouble after having paid large amounts to subcontractors for departures that never existed.
The subcontractor Busslink operates on behalf of SL on some bus lines in Stockholm. Yesterday the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) revealed that Busslink has sent invoices to SL for extra departures that never existed.
On the route Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) to Norrtälje, there have been extra departures worth SEK 5.7 million so far only this year. However, many of the extra departures have only existed in theory and on the invoices Busslink sent to SL. According to drivers that DN has spoken to, this has been gong on for several years.
The management of SL is now critisised for being incompetent and for having no control over the taxpayers’ and travelers money.
Gunilla Roxby Cromvall in the board of SL is very critical. She says to DN:
- There is a big risk that this s not only about Busslink. If the control is this bad, it is very possible that we have had to pay for more traffic that never existed. With these kinds of shortcomings in the organization it may also concern other areas, like security, cleaning etc.
SL will also investigate the claims that employees at Busslink arrived to the birthday party of one of the company’s executives in a bus that SL later paid for.
According to the chairman of the SL-board, Christer G. Wennerholm, it is very possible that the investigation will come to the conclusion that the contract with Busslink shall be terminated completely.
Facts: SL (Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, the local transports in Greater Stockholm) is a publicly owned company. The board consists of representatives from the political parties. SL is financed by about fifty percent tax money and about fifty percent ticket revenues. Since a few years ago, SL does not run the traffic themselves; instead they give different private companies the task to perform the traffic on certain routes.
Busslink drives all the local buses in Stockholm inner city and seventy percent of all public bus traffic in the region.
