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Naughty former Gizmondo boss Stefan Eriksson has been sent back to prison by a Swedish court.

According to The Local - SWEDEN'S NEWS IN ENGLISH - he's been given an 18 month sentence for a rainbow of crimes such as "illegal threats, attempted blackmail, and robbery". Goodness knows what he'd have gotten for something really serious.

His lawyer, Björn Sandin, said, "My immediate reaction is that this is unacceptable, but we must sit down and discuss how we should proceed." Why not try hiding a file in a cake?

Eriksson was previously the leader of criminal fraternity the Uppsala Mafia, but gamers know him best as the man who brought us the Gizmondo. Then crashed an illegally imported million-dollar Ferrari while driving on the Pacific Coast highway at 162 miles an hour. Then claimed to know nothing about a gun magazine found near the wreckage and blamed it all on a man called Dietrich. Then ended up getting imprisoned for embezzlement. Oh Stefan, why couldn't you have just set up a successful mobile phone manufacturing company like your brother Sony?

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Eraser #1 3 years ago

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On Wikipedia, Eriksson is introduced as "a Swedish criminal from Uppsala, Sweden". So that puts "criminal" in front of "Gizmondo".
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ZuluHero #2 3 years ago

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Do not pass go. Do not collect £200.
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GreatUncleBaal #3 3 years ago

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Damn that Dietrich. If I owned a massively expensive sports car, I'd let mysterious strangers drive it all the time...
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grimly_reaped #4 3 years ago

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"Oh Stefan, why couldn't you have just set up a successful mobile phone manufacturing company like your brother Sony?"

Genius!
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Khab #5 3 years ago

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Goodness knows what he'd have gotten for something really serious.

Since our courts are a joke, he'd get tops 3-4 years effective time for murder. So not much more, then. On the other hand, if he'd been growing hashish, he'd probably have looked at 9-10 years.
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esperanto #6 3 years ago

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This dude is a games industry legend, wonder if he got $500,000 back for half his car??
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Nomgle #7 3 years ago

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This dude is a games industry legend, wonder if he got $500,000 back for half his car?

Huh ?
He'd STOLEN the car from a finance company here in the UK, along with two other vehicles. It certainly wasn't "his car" ! There's an excellent write-up of the full story over at http://ww w.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10... - some of it is absolutely mind-boggling.
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wellzy4eva #8 3 years ago

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ah it makes sense now, at first I thought they were referring to gizmodo (The blog)
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smernicki #9 3 years ago

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There was a man in America who was raped to death in the prison showers. And another was boiled alive in a pot of soup in a prison riot.

any references for these? have heard about crazy stuff in mexican/central american prisons before
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Entity #10 3 years ago

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"Rainbow of crimes"

Sudddenly the dark misery of stabbings/murders/bombings is replaced by sheep in a field with a purple sky, while a pie cools down by a cottage window

The crime in all this? A cat tries to steal the pie away.

Beautiful and rainbowie! ( I know)

Edited by 5 at 13/07/09 @ 15:32
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penhalion #11 3 years ago

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I'm wondering how long it takes the games on demand fraternity to join him in jail, once their shinanigans have been rumbled!
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SEVQA #12 3 years ago

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He can W/Lan with Bernie Madoff!
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