Sweden's 'Queen of Trash' jailed over toxic waste scandal

A court in Sweden on Tuesday convicted 10 people of illegally dumping toxic waste, including a former stripper who once described herself as the "Queen of Trash", in the country's biggest environmental crime trial.

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The five central figures in the case were handed prison sentences ranging from two to six years.

Waste management company Think Pink was found guilty of dumping or burying some 200,000 tonnes of waste from the Stockholm area at 21 sites from 2015 to 2020, with no intention of processing it correctly.

In a 692-page verdict, the Sodertorn district court sentenced Think Pink's former chief executive Bella Nilsson to six years behind bars for 19 counts of "aggravated environmental crime". Nilsson worked as a stripper and managed a sex club in Stockholm in the 1990s, getting convicted for accounting crimes in 1998. She wrote a memoire — A Stripper's Confession — before going on to win a prestigious award in 2018 for entrepreneurship with Think Pink.

The four others received prison sentences ranging from two to four-and-a-half years.