It concerns serious business money laundering, which includes over three billion kroner, which according to the indictment comes from VAT fraud.
SVT’s investigation shows that the actors behind the company have also been active in the business surrounding Aegirbio – more precisely in the Gävle company that was responsible for agreements and delivery of the giant orders that last year got 25,000 small savers to turn Aegirbio into a price rocket.
Both the orders and the stock price crashed after SVT revealed links to the mobile mess. Right now, Aegirbio is being examined by the Stock Exchange’s disciplinary committee, which received a notification for Nasdaq just before Christmas with a request for delisting.
“Could be about fraud”
Aegirbio has blamed all the uncertainties on its former partner in Gävle, but SVT’s review shows that Aegirbio’s management themselves avoided informing that deliveries did not start as intended – and instead spread an image of growing production and demand.
– It can actualize crimes such as fraud or gross market manipulation, says Aktiespararna’s lawyer Sverre Linton in a comment on the survey.
CEO-linked company winner
While many small savers’ money went up in smoke when Aegirbio collapsed, there was one owner who sold in such good time that they made almost a quarter of a billion from the sale. It was an ownership company which in turn was owned by an American company – where Aegirbio’s one founder and current CEO Bradley Messmer is a major owner.
Messmer has claimed that the sale should not be classified as insider trading because he had no formal position in the ownership company, but SVT’s review shows that people within both the Swedish and American ownership company can be connected to Messmer in different ways.
Aegirbio’s management has for some time declined all questions from SVT with reference to “strongly biased negative publications”. However, like the actors in the mobile scandal, they have previously rejected all accusations of irregularities.