Twitch streamer Melina\u2019s passport seized amid potential criminal charges over taxes Twitch: melinaAccording to her partner Destiny, Twitch streamer Melina Goransson is currently unable to leave Sweden and return to the US as her passport has been seized, with tax officials considering criminal charges over her bookkeeping. Melina, originally from Sweden, was back in her home country and attending meetings with officials to regarding her tax and citizenship status. On his stream on August 24, Destiny revealed that after the latest meeting, the \u201cprosecutor\u201d had explained that they were considering criminal charges based on fraudulent bookkeeping. Additionally, her passport has been seized, rendering her unable to leave the country and return to the US for the time being. Destiny explains Melina situation Speaking openly on his stream, Destiny said, \u201cFor whatever reason, the prosecutor is now considering indicting her for \u2018fraudulent books\u2019, and they seized her f**king passport. \u201cSo now she can\u2019t leave the country, or come back to the United States, and now she\u2019s looking at possible criminal charges \u2013 for, what?\u201d Topic starts at 1:24:00 Destiny explained he was surprised, as in the US, he believes most self-employed people will be spared penalties if they \u201cf**k up\u201d their tax return in their first year. \u201cIn Sweden, I guess they just assume you\u2019re engaged in fraudulent, like, wilful tax evasion?\u201d Well, fraudulent bookkeeping \u2013 the [lawyer] said it was a bookkeeping charge.\u201d Destiny also claims that Melina has paid over $200,000 USD in taxes to the Swedish government already. Another concern for her is the length of her stay in Sweden. If it is extended beyond a year while proceedings take place, Destiny says she will lose her green card for the US. Melina herself is yet to speak publicly about the issue, but remains in Swedend attempting to resolve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer Melina\u2019s passport seized amid potential criminal charges over taxes Twitch: melinaAccording to her partner Destiny, Twitch streamer Melina Goransson is currently unable to leave Sweden and return to the US as her passport has been seized, with tax officials considering criminal charges over her bookkeeping. Melina, originally from Sweden, was back in her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}