Sweden – The Stockholm appeals court sentenced Hakan Nesser, one of Sweden’s best-selling contemporary thriller writers, to 18 months’ jail for tax evasion on Friday.
His wife received the same 18-month sentence.
The court found the couple guilty of not declaring to the tax authorities the transfer of nearly 13 million Swedish kronor ($1.23 million) from companies in Malta between 2013 and 2015.
“We’re in shock and we feel like we’ve been run over by a tank,” Nesser said.
He said he had hired an accountant to manage his financial affairs.
The crime writer was acquitted in the first instance in the spring of 2023.
At the time, the court accepted the author’s argument that the transfers had occurred through ignorance of tax rules.
Nesser has written 48 books that have sold some 20 million copies worldwide.
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His first book was published in 1988.
His works, several of which have been adapted for the big screen or for television, have been translated into more than 20 languages.
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