Gunilla Persson’s Debts Grow to Over SEK 600,000
Published: 2023-12-08 21.35
Gunilla Persson’s debts for unauthorized contributions have grown to SEK 600,000. Now that she is in Sweden to compete in Melodifestivalen, she risks having her valuables confiscated, Expressen reports.
In 2018, the “Hollywood wife” lost the case against Försäkringskassan and was sentenced to pay SEK 333,000 for benefit fraud. This after she received child support, parental and sickness benefits paid out in different installments between 2006 and 2013.
At the time, Gunilla appeared in TV3’s “Svenska Hollywoodfruar” and the authority considered in a refund decision from 2014 that she had provided incorrect information about her income and where she lived.
The Debt Grows
Now the debt has grown to just over SEK 630,000, writes Expressen. In the past, the Kronofogden has carried out investigations where it emerged that Gunilla has no assets that can be seized in Sweden. But when she is now to take part in the Melodifestivalen, her debts risk having consequences.
“There are consequences of staying in Sweden with property that makes it possible to seize things,” says Pontus Thoresson, head of a group within the Swedish Crown Enforcement Agency that works with people in debt who live abroad to Expressen.
The Bailiff Cooperates with the Police
Last year, the Distance Enforcement Act came into force, which makes it easier for the Crown Enforcement Officer to cooperate with the police. “If people coming back to Sweden, for example, pass a border control on the bridge, then the police is a tool for us, an extended arm. They can see the balance owed. They call us, we foreclose and you get rid of it there and then on the spot,” says Pontus to the newspaper. Aftonbladet has applied for Gunilla Persson.