Ian H. Lundin and Alexander Schneiter are the Chairman and former CEO of Lundin Energy, a Swedish oil company with significant operations in Norway. They are charged in Sweden under universal jurisdiction for aiding and abetting international crimes in Sudan/South Sudan between 1997-2003. The prosecutor will also seek forfeiture of €300 million in criminal benefits from Lundin Energy itself. Two other oil companies, Petronas and OMV, are directly linked to the case as were Lundin’s partners in its allegedly criminal enterprise. The trial is of importance to hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan who experienced the investigated gross violations and have been denied their right to remedy and reparation. The case has the potential to sharpen the standards regarding corporate liability for aiding and abetting human rights abuses.
Masha Gessen wrote an excellent piece in the New York Times about the Lundin trial, the banality of corporate crime, and the growing efforts to hold corporate actors accountable for complicity in war crimes. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/e5Jf-2qj No subscription to the NYT? Try https://archive.is/05tol
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This is the eight episode of our program in Nuer, the local language spoken in Unity State in the area where Block 5A was located and where the alleged crimes were committed. This trial is about justice for the survivors, and we hope this podcast will reach the people affected and shed light on the
Kä nɛy tin caa kuëŋ yieenä – Ian Lundin Read More »
E20: The Defendants – Alexandre Schneiter In this episode, we turn our attention to the cross-examination of the trial’s second defendant — Alexandre Schneiter, Vice President of Exploration, COO, and later CEO of Lundin Energy. Often described as the golden boy of the Lundin company, Schneiter built his reputation on discovering oil in places no one else
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This is the seventh episode of our program in Nuer, the local language spoken in Unity State in the area where Block 5A was located and where the alleged crimes were committed. This trial is about justice for the survivors, and we hope this podcast will reach the people affected and shed light on the
E19: Questioning History: A Lundin Defence Tactic The defence lawyers for Ian Lundin and Alex Schneiter deny that any war crimes were committed during Lundin’s operations in South Sudan. They have spent considerable time in court attempting to discredit the prosecution’s evidence, which alleges that systematic war crimes occurred in multiple locations over an extended
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After nearly two decades of advocacy for victims of Sudan’s oil war, two central figures in the pursuit of justice finally took the stand. In this episode, we speak with Egbert Wesselink from PAX and Petter Bolme from Global Idé—who both recently testified in the Lundin trial. Egbert, author of the Unpaid Debtreport that helped spark
E18: From Report to Trial – Unpaid Debt Read More »
This is the sixth episode of our program in Nuer, the local language spoken in Unity State in the area where Block 5A was located and where the alleged crimes were committed. This trial is about justice for the survivors, and we hope this podcast will reach the people affected and shed light on the
This is the fifth episode of our program in Nuer, the local language spoken in Unity State in the area where Block 5A was located and where the alleged crimes were committed. This trial is about justice for the survivors, and we hope this podcast will reach the people affected and shed light on the
Tethti̱möni̱ ti̱ bä rɛydɛ: Kä La̱a̱t Lundin Read More »
Before Bol Maker’s testimony in court in 2024, an audio clip is played. It’s a threat directed at every witness in the trial against Lundin Oil: “We are going to assassinate you one by one.” In today’s episode, we are joined by Anna Roxvall and Carolina Jemsby, the two renowned journalists behind the investigative documentary
E17: Witnesses at Risk: “We are going to assassinate you one by one” Read More »
In December 2024 and January 2025, Ian Lundin underwent twelve days of cross-examination. His performance in the courtroom, marked by evasive responses and selective recollections, neither bolstered the prosecution’s case nor did it disprove the core allegations at the heart of the case against him. From the outset, it was clear that Ian Lundin had
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