SD member Katja Nyberg brought her handbag into the police station – and in it the police found a bag of white powder.
– As I understand it, she had it with her in the car and also with her into the police station when she entered, says chief prosecutor Anders Jakobsson about the handbag.
Member of Parliament Katja Nyberg is being investigated for drunk driving and drug offenses after she was checked by police in connection with an accident east of Stockholm on December 28.
The article in brief
• SD member of parliament Katja Nyberg was checked by the police in connection with an accident east of Stockholm on 28 December.
• Rapid tests carried out in connection with the incident indicated the influence of drugs, reports Aftonbladet.
• At the police check, a bag was seized – the contents of which have been sent for analysis. The bag was, according to prosecutors, in a handbag that Nyberg brought into the police station.
In connection with the incident, the police seized a bag. The contents of the bag have been sent for analysis. The bag should have been found in her purse, which TV4 Nyheterna was the first to tell.
Anders Jakobsson, chief prosecutor and chief of chambers for the special prosecution chamber, now tells us that Katja Nyberg must have brought the handbag into the police station:
– She had it with her. As I understand it, she had it with her in the car and also into the police station when she came in, he tells Expressen.
Received parts of the test answers
In addition to the contents of the bag, blood and urine samples from Nyberg have also been sent for analysis. The prosecutor has received parts of the test answers.
Could those answers indicate something?
– I will not go into it at all because we have not received all the results. When I have received all the results, it is only then that I will make an assessment, says Jakobsson.
At the time of the police check, rapid tests were carried out, which gave results.
Did the rapid tests give results for several different drugs?
– I don’t dare answer that actually. The quick tests that you do have no real evidentiary value other than that they indicate something and then you pass it on. It is only when you get the analyzes from the real analysis that you can say what it was.
Anders Jakobsson has previously said that his hope was that the test results will come at the end of this week. Now he says:
– I don’t think it will be realistic, but I think it will be sometime, perhaps at the end of the following week. I hope it goes as quickly as possible.
The lawyer: “No reported suspicion”
When Expressen asks Nyberg’s lawyer Martin Orler to comment on the prosecutor’s statement that she brought her purse into the police station, he says:
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– There is pre-trial confidentiality, so neither I nor the prosecutor should comment on that. There are confidentiality rules that even he should respect.
When asked if Nyberg has found out about the analysis answers that have come in so far, Orler says:
– There is no reported suspicion yet. I have no comment on that.
The lawyer has previously said that Nyberg has no knowledge of the seizure of the bag.
Katja Nyberg wrote in a statement to Expressen last week that she “does not recognize” herself in the information, which she learned with “great surprise”.
“During the intervening days, I had a wild car accident. In connection with this, I had to go down to the police station and blow for alcohol, which then showed no results. It is therefore with great surprise that I read what is now being written about me and this incident. The Special Investigations Unit is now looking into this, which I welcome because I do not recognize myself in this.”she writes.
Launched private detective agency
Katja Nyberg was elected to the Riksdag in autumn 2018. She then took leave from her job as an investigator at the police’s National Operative Department, Noa. In the Riksdag, she sits on the justice committee and she is the Sweden Democrats’ spokesperson on police issues.
Expressen was able to reveal in January 2023 that Nyberg had launched a private online detective agency in parallel with his job as a police officer at Noa. She then offered to use her contacts and search records.
When the side job was discovered, a high-ranking Noa manager determined that Nyberg’s detective agency could damage the police’s reputation and cause the agency’s impartiality to be called into question.
