Margareta Winberg bjöd sina vänner på en privat lyxmiddag - och lät skattebetalarna
stå för notan.
Det
var hösten 2005 som ambassadör Winberg bjöd in sina vänner från den
jämtländska pr-byrån Begriplig. Totalt kostade middagen 4.600 kronor.
Kostnaden motiverade hon med att hennes vänner lärt henne både att
mingla och att blogga.
Enligt Bo Nordelius, ämnesråd på UD:s rättssekretariat är reglerna glasklara:
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Representation ska ha med tjänsten att göra och vara till nytta för
verksamheten. Det får inte vara frågan om utgifter för någon privat
trivsel, säger han till Dagens Media.
Vid tiden för middagen hade
Margareta Winberg en lön på 67.000 kronor i månaden samt ett
skattefritt tillägg på 12.624 kronor i månaden.
Summary translation for my English speaking readers:
Ambassadress Margareta Winberg had invited her personal and private friends to a luxury dinner that was put on the Swedish Taxpayers accounts in 2005. In other words the normal Swedish citizens had to pay for a dinner that had nothing to do with her tasks as a representative for Sweden. At the time of this dinner the net income of the Ambassadress was 67.000 kronor ( about $7000 or about 5500 Euros per month). This ofcourse added up to a sum of 12.642 Kronor ( over 1000 Euro or about almost 2000$ a month as a nontaxable income to her normal salary as an ambassador!
According to the Swedish foreign office regulations , which was referred to by Mr Bo Nordelious at the Swedish foreign office, the tax free receptions are only allowed if they are connected to the tasks of the representatives or necessary purposes for their mission. In this case the luxury dinner was expensed by the tax payers for her hometown fellow citizens from Jamtland.These kind of expenses should not be spent for the purposes of private and personal indulgences of the Swedish representatives.
It is worth to remind you that Ambassadress Winberg is a Social Democrate and her alleged political party manifesto is to avoid these kind of decadent behaviors specially when it is going to be paid by the national tax payers. ( this confirmation is mine)
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