PAAATE
10-03-2009, 02:21 PM
The worst example of bureaucracy ever?
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article5897332.ab
Fadhil Farag sits in an office in Casablanca. He wants to return the social allowance money he got from Sweden 30 years ago. But no one accepts his money.
Fadhil is grateful towards Sweden and now wants to give something back.
- Considering the crisis, I thought now is the time to pay back.
He came to Sweden from the Kurdish part of Iraq in September 1977 and was allowed to stay as a political refugee. Fadhil got social allowance money for rent and a bus card.
Four years later he became a Swedish citizen, but in 1986 he left his new country for Casablanca, Morocco.
- I worked hard and now I have the biggest company making spare parts for trucks in Morocco.
Fadhil says he got 18 320 kronor in allowance 30 years ago, and now wants to pay back 70 000 kronor.
- Because it is social allowance it belongs to the municipality in question, says Magnus Johansson, press secretary at the tax agency.
During his time in Sweden Fadhil lived in Uppsala.
- I've never heard of this before. It's a nice gesture but I don't have an answer, says Fredrik Sjöberg, chairman for "the committee of health care and education" in Uppsala.
Not even finance minister Anders Borg has a solution. His press secretary Markus Sjöqvist says that he will look into the matter, but he also can't find an answer.
And left in Casablanca is Fadhil and his 70 000.
- I hope someone helps me pay back to Sweden, he says.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article5897332.ab
Fadhil Farag sits in an office in Casablanca. He wants to return the social allowance money he got from Sweden 30 years ago. But no one accepts his money.
Fadhil is grateful towards Sweden and now wants to give something back.
- Considering the crisis, I thought now is the time to pay back.
He came to Sweden from the Kurdish part of Iraq in September 1977 and was allowed to stay as a political refugee. Fadhil got social allowance money for rent and a bus card.
Four years later he became a Swedish citizen, but in 1986 he left his new country for Casablanca, Morocco.
- I worked hard and now I have the biggest company making spare parts for trucks in Morocco.
Fadhil says he got 18 320 kronor in allowance 30 years ago, and now wants to pay back 70 000 kronor.
- Because it is social allowance it belongs to the municipality in question, says Magnus Johansson, press secretary at the tax agency.
During his time in Sweden Fadhil lived in Uppsala.
- I've never heard of this before. It's a nice gesture but I don't have an answer, says Fredrik Sjöberg, chairman for "the committee of health care and education" in Uppsala.
Not even finance minister Anders Borg has a solution. His press secretary Markus Sjöqvist says that he will look into the matter, but he also can't find an answer.
And left in Casablanca is Fadhil and his 70 000.
- I hope someone helps me pay back to Sweden, he says.