Claes Nordmark receives a parachute – worth 1.3 million kronor

Boden’s former municipal councilor Claes Nordmark (S) has been convicted of sexual assault.

Despite this, he will receive a parachute of 1.3 million kronor – which began to be paid out even before the verdict was handed down.

The Moderates now intend to appeal. News, reports and analyses in Sweden and around the world.

On Thursday, the District Court convicted Boden’s former municipal councilor and municipal board chairman Claes Nordmark (S) of sexual assault.

The punishment will be a suspended sentence and 120 hours of community service.

Already getting a parachute

When the municipal politician was indicted this spring, he resigned from all his political positions. Shortly after that, he also applied for payment of his parachute: a restructuring grant totaling 1.3 million kronor.

Last week, the support began to be paid out, SVT and NSD report. He is said to have received a first payment, according to SVT of 79,678 kronor and according to NSD of 72,151 kronor.

This is how the decision is justified

Boden Municipality states that the ruling does not affect the support.

“There is nothing in the regulations that regulates suspicion of a crime or a conviction for a crime, which means that the human resources department executes the payment of the adjustment support,” writes human resources manager Ingela Arngren in an email to TV4.

“There is nothing in the regulations that regulates suspicion of a crime or a conviction for a crime, which means that the human resources department executes the payment of the adjustment support”,

But the Moderates in the municipality are critical of this.

According to NSD, the party has contacted SKR to clarify the issue – and will now appeal the decision about the parachute payments to the Administrative Court.

The Moderators: “A mockery”

M politician Tobias Sundberg tells both SVT and NSD that the municipal board should have discussed the issue before the payments began.

– There must be a decision in principle, the municipal board must make a decision before you can start paying millions in support to an individual. But here the municipality has really only started paying out money, without any decision, he tells NSD.

He also calls it “a mockery of the victim.”

Claes Nordmark was the chairman of the municipal board in Boden Municipality from 2018 until this spring. During Stefan Löfven’s government, he was also a political expert for the then Minister of Rural Affairs Sven-Erik Bucht (S), and he has also worked as a political secretary in the Riksdag for Mikael Damberg (S).

Nordmark has consistently denied wrongdoing. Expressen is seeking his lawyer for comment.