As reported by IA Rosbalt, last year the measures taken by these authorities against persons refusing to leave Sweden voluntarily cost Swedish taxpayers 32 million Swedish kronor ($4 million). In the first 5 months of 2003, state expenditures on the deportation of foreign citizens amounted to 15 million kronor (about $2 million). In 2002, the police authorities had to rent an airplane 14 times to deport a total of 53 people.
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