1. Bankruptcy Supervision in Sweden Trends, Cooperation and Efficiency Ms. Anna Thelander

2. Bankruptcy Supervision today Bankruptcy Supervision Supervision in all bankruptcies Dividend to creditors Interests of the community Apply – administrator discharged Guaranteed fee Opinion on accounts and the fee The Administrator All powers of the company Seizing and selling the company assets Drafting of mandatory reports Decides wage guarantee Pays the dividend to the creditors 2

3. Efficiency in Bankruptcy Supervision We have paper files today – lots of papers (> 10 000 open bankruptcies) New IT support system – October 2014 Electronic files Email for District courts E-service for Administrators 3

4. Efficiency in Government Administration of Bankruptcies Cooperation with Swedish National Courts Administration (SNCA) Moving administrative tasks to the Enforcement Authority the Administrators Joint report filed at Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Justice in November 2013 – no answer yet 4

5. Trends – Increase in Frauds Companies as tools for criminal activity Organized criminal groups Buy and hostile take-over of company with good credit rating Credit fraud and tax fraud prior to bankruptcy Wage guarantee fraud after bankruptcy 5

6. Trends – False Documents/ Fraud and Forgery Frauds: wage guarantee False guarantee decision, not Administrator False appointment of Administrator, not District court False certificate, not Job placement Usually real companies/real bankruptcies… Even false companies, false administrators False identities 6

7. Cooperation to stop/reduce Fraud Cooperation County Board, which pays wage guarantee Economic Crime Authority, same prosecutors Economic Crime Authority, procedures for crime reports (County Board & Administrators) National wage guarantee group Information Administrators Unions 7

8. Telefon 0771-73 73 00 www.kronofogden.se Ms. Anna Thelander Process Developer