It was in October 2023 that Joachim Kuylenstierna, then CEO of the company Fastator, was subjected to an extortion attempt.
Several threatening messages were sent to Kuylenstierna asking him to pay off an alleged debt of 100 million. Additional people working at Fastator are said to have received threats. One of Kuylenstierna’s colleagues’ villa was exposed to, among other things, an arson attack in November 2023.
In September 2024, eight people were charged. The charges include attempted aggravated extortion, aggravated arson, unlawful coercion, aggravated extortion, assault in legal proceedings, civil registration offenses and aggravated accounting offences. All have denied wrongdoing.
According to the prosecutor, several of the defendants have connections to criminal gangs.
Jonas Falk is suspected of being the ringleader
According to the prosecutor, the background to the extortion is a multi-million dollar investment made in 2009.
– That investment did not go as planned and the investor lost a lot of money. The extortion takes place because the investor wants to get his money back with interest, prosecutor Anna Stråth has previously told SVT.
According to the prosecutor, it is suspected that Jonas Falk’s money was behind the investment. He is previously convicted of, among other things, bank robbery. He was also singled out as the ringleader in one of Sweden’s biggest drug rings, “Operation Playa”, but was acquitted.
The indictment is divided into three parts.
In the first part, eight people are charged with attempted aggravated extortion and aggravated arson. Additional people, one of whom is in custody in Spain, are suspected of complicity in the crimes. The preliminary investigation against them continues and a decision on the prosecution is expected to be made in 2025.
In the second part, the lawyer, who is also suspected of having promoted the extortion attempt in the first part of the indictment, is charged with gross usury, false certification, illegal coercion, gross extortion, assault in legal proceedings and civil registration offences.
The third part deals with serious accounting offences, and two of the eight detained persons are charged. One of the defendants is suspected of having, in addition to his work as a lawyer, conducted an extensive lending business without accounting for seven years.
Facts: The Public Prosecutor’s Office