This means that it can be significantly more difficult to find out who, for example, owns a construction company or whether a company has connections to organized crime.
The Swedish Companies Registration Office is now working to supplement the already existing requirement that the searcher must log in. With the verdict, you will also have to explain the purpose of a search.
— It will probably be done by logging in with e-identification and an addendum with a certificate of who you are who intends to search the registers, says Therese Frennberg, head of the Swedish Companies Registration Office’s company department, to Di.
Some actors, such as authorities and banks, are required to carry out searches in order to reduce the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.
But whether, for example, journalists will also have the opportunity to search registers in this way in the future is unclear, according to Therese Frennberg, who refers to the fact that the judgment is unclear.