Dag Olov Larsson (born 1960) is a
Swedish
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politician and former member of the
Riksdag
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, the national
legislature
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. A member of the
Social Democratic Party
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, he represented
Stockholm Municipality
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between September 2018 and June 2022.
Larsson is the son of engineer Bengt Andersson and the
behavioural scientist Annmarie Larsson.
He studied at the
Stockholm Institute of Education.
In January 2022, a police investigation into a
Thai massage parlor
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in
Östermalm
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illicitly functioning as a
brothel
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found
Instagram
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messages dating from December 2021 between a
sex worker
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at the brothel and Larsson.
Larsson claimed his account had been
compromised.
Despite not being suspected of a crime, Larsson resigned from the Riksdag in June 2022 after ''
Aftonbladet
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History and profile
The newspaper was founded by Lar ...
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broke the news.
References
1960 births
Living people
Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022
Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats
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