Editing Maria Robsahm (section)

{{Short description|Swedish politician (born 1957)}}
'''Maria Robsahm''' (before June 2008 '''Maria Carlshamre'''; born '''Maria Kelldén''' on 3 February 1957 in [[Enköping]]) is a [[Politics of Sweden|Swedish politician]] who was a [[Member of the European Parliament]] from 2004 to 2009. She was elected as a member of the [[Liberal People's Party (Sweden)|Liberal People's Party]], part of the [[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe]]. However, she defected to [[Feminist Initiative (Sweden)|Feminist Initiative]] on 1 March 2006.<ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3165&date=20060301&PHPSESSID=09d79b177b573aa56fae61164f5ba868 Convicted Liberal defects to feminists] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605094929/http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3165&date=20060301&PHPSESSID=09d79b177b573aa56fae61164f5ba868 |date=2011-06-05 }}, [[The Local]], March 1, 2006 {{in lang|en}}</ref>

She sat on the [[European Parliament]]'s [[Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs]] and the [[Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality]]. She was also a substitute for the [[Committee on Culture and Education]] and a member of the Delegation to the [[European Union|EU]]-[[Moldova]] Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

Robsahm was convicted of accounting irregularities in August 2005, following the [[bankruptcy]] of a company owned jointly by herself (then known as Maria Carlshamre) and her former husband. She was given a [[suspended sentence]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071001125953/http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=145&a=474283&rss=1399 Carlshamre dömd för bokföringsbrott], [[Dagens Nyheter]], October 14, 2005 {{in lang|sv}}</ref> As a result of her conviction, the leadership of the Liberal People's Party called on her to resign from her seat in the European Parliament. Instead, she left that party and joined Feminist Initiative. This move received some Swedish media attention for the fact that one of the two co-leaders of Feminist Initiative, [[Gudrun Schyman]], had been convicted on another finance-related crime, [[tax evasion]].