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Full -screen hearers outside the courtroom in Stockholm District Court during the first negotiation day in the Lundin case on September 5, 2023. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT
Witnesses in the Lundin Oil goal have been subjected to violent pressure for several years to withdraw their testimonies or change sides, reports TV4’s cold facts.
– I have never been to a criminal case where the plaintiff has been subjected to this type of threat, pressure and violence – it is completely unique, says Percy Bratt, who is the plaintiff’s assistant to several vulnerable witnesses, to the program.
The huge trial began in September 2023 and is expected to continue until the beginning of next year.
In the case are two former managers within Lundin Oil, Ian Lundin and Alex Schneiter, charged with assisting with gross international law in Sudan 1999–2003, during a time when the company was active in the area.
An important part of the prosecutor’s evidence consists of testimonies from Sudan in the current period. Cold facts have taken part in a report compiled by a network that works to protect the witnesses, describing contact attempts, bribes, threats, kidnappings, serious violence and suspected murders. In total, there are close to 400 incidents reported by witnesses or their relatives between 2014 and 2024.
Lundinbolaget denies for Cold Facts that they would have something to do with unauthorized testimony.