Karl Göran Gustav Lindberg (born 25 April 1946, in

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) is a Swedish convicted

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and a former police chief. He effectively served 2/3rd of a six-year prison sentence in

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for numerous sex crimes.

Career in the police

He completed his law degree in 1972, and served as rector of the Swedish National Police Academy 1989–1997, and as police commissioner in

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1997–2006. After stepping down as police commissioner, he was an adviser on gender equality and sexual harassment to the National Police Directorate.

Criminal conviction

He was arrested on 25 January 2010 and charged with multiple sex offenses, including the

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of a 14-year-old child. He was subsequently also charged with raping several other women, and of procuring. On 30 July 2010, he was convicted of several sex offenses, including

, and sentenced to 6.5 years in

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by the

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. The High Court reduced his sentence to 6 years, and the Supreme Court rejected his appeal. He served his sentence in

. He was released in late January 2014 after serving four years in prison.

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