Prosecutors at the national anti-corruption unit have spent the last two years working on four preliminary investigations linked to inspection companies. 37 people are suspected of having received or given bribes, Upsala Nya Tidning reports.

 "As far as I know, bribery of this kind with so many people involved has not previously been discovered in the car industry," says prosecutor Hawjin Shamer to the newspaper.

 The cases are in different places in the country and two of them have connections to each other. A technician in Skåne has been charged for having received a list of cars that were approved without having been to the station.

 — If a bribe is given to an inspector in connection with an inspection, there is a danger that the vehicles would otherwise not have been approved or that they would not have been subject to inspection at all.  It is worrying that there may be vehicles out on the roads that may barely be in drivable condition, says Shamer to UNT.