Employment Service pilots may have been recruited to the IS – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Employment Service pilots may have been recruited to the IS – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Establishing The pilots were meant to act as a link between the newcomers and the Swedish society, including the use of their language skills. But the Employment Service now says up all agreements with immediate effect, and have even removed the feature from its site during the day.

– We have received indications that there have been attempted recruitment or networking situations to various violent combatants groups say the Employment Service Director General Michael Sjöberg Expressen.

The decision taken and with a marked increase in complaints from job seekers and signs of different types of dishonest and criminal activity. For example, mentions fraud, bribery, extortion, threats and sale of civil registration addresses.

– It’s all about loans or gifts to adhere to a particular pilot, as tablets, phones, and sometimes cash, says Sjöberg.

The Director General also says that this type of cases submitted to the Security Police and the Labour Minister Ylva Johansson (S) and other members of the Cabinet Office has been informed, but not in detail.

On SAPO is one , as expected, very secretive about the details, but confirms that it contacted by the Employment Service.

– We have received this information and will assess it. We take all of this data seriously, but what assessment we do or we would open an investigation, I can not comment, says press officer Sirpa Franzen told SvD.

She notes, however, that the approach stands out.

– This is not a common way of recruiting to violent travels. What we have seen previously is that recruitment primarily occurs in social contexts and through social media, says Franzen.

In March last year began Employment Service, a review of the service with the establishment pilots With the aggressive marketing that many of the companies engaged. It was under review as the rogue activities came to light, and since last autumn, the problems become worse, writes TT.

program with establishment pilots, as the Alliance initiated in 2010, has been criticized for be inefficient and costly, but Mikael Sjoberg told TT that it has not influenced the decision to scrap the system.

– Had it just been a poorly functioning system, we had gone in and worked with it. It is the changed and deepened the problem scenario that causes that we finish it.

At TT’s terms of requiring parliamentary decision to terminate the service responds Sjöberg:

– Spring assessment is that we can handle the intentions of the law in a different way than we do with this system. There is a regulation that says I should economical with state funds, and there is a Working Environment Act that says I should have a reasonable working environment for my employees.