Sweden charges Lundin Energy executives for complicity in Sudan war crimes, but firm rejects any grounds for allegations of wrongdoing.
11 November 2021 - 17:00Stockholm — Swedish prosecutors on Thursday brought charges against the chairperson and former CEO of Lundin Energy for complicity in war crimes carried out by the Sudanese army and allied militia in southern Sudan from 1999 to 2003.
“What constitutes complicity in a criminal sense is that they made these demands despite understanding or, in any case being indifferent to, the military and the militia carrying out the war in a way that was forbidden according to international humanitarian law,” the prosecutors’ authority said in a statement.
Ian Lundin’s lawyer Torgny Wetterberg said on Thursday his client was innocent: “The prosecutor will never be able to reach convictions. The prosecution is deficient on every point.”Prosecutors also filed a claim to confiscate 1.39-billion crowns from Lundin Energy, corresponding to the profit the company made from the sale of the Sudan business in 2003. The company said it would contest this claim.
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