The leak contains detailed information on hundreds of thousands of properties in Dubai, including who is listed as the registered owner, in the years 2020 and 2022.
Assignment review has identified 887 Swedes who were registered owners of properties in Dubai during one or both years. 66 of them are convicted of crimes, have debts to the state or receive benefits in Sweden.
The data first came to the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), a non-profit organization based in Washington DC in the US that researches international crime and conflicts. The material was then shared with Norway’s E24 and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), who in turn shared the material with an international network of journalists.
The data base comes from a series of leaks from the Dubai Land Department. Mission review has verified the identities of the Swedes in the leak.
In 2022, Swedes owned properties in Dubai worth a total of USD 430 million, corresponding to SEK 4.3 billion, according to a calculation made by researchers at The EU Tax Observatory in Paris and Skatteforsk – Center for Tax Research in Norway