The Board of Directors of Lundin Energy strongly advises against a shareholder proposal that the company aligns its legal defense strategy with its human rights policy, notably that in human rights cases it not only defends the right to a fair trial of suspects but also the right to access to justice and prompt redress […]

Ian Lundin, Alex Schneiter and Lundin Energy continue to make every effort to avoid that they will be held to account in court, including the use of time consuming procedures with little legal merit. For instance, in April 2020, the suspects requested the Stockholm District Court to put an immediate end to the entire war

The Swedish Prosecution Authority announced today that the Lundin investigation is complete. ‘We believe we have sufficient grounds for a prosecution’, says Chief Prosecutor Henrik Attorps to Dagens Nyheter, indicating a firm intention to take the case to court. Tuesday afternoon, the Description of Suspicions and the complete files were sent to the suspects –

The Stockholm District Court (Stockholms Tingsrätt) on 4 May, rejected the requests of Ian H. Lundin, Alex Schneiter and Lundin Energy to put an end to the war crimes investigation against them. They had argued that the extraordinary length of the investigation was violating their human rights, notably the right to a fair and public

The South Sudan Council of Churches and its Ecumenical partners have presented six programmatic priorities for the short and long term. They include “Support justice and reparation of those affected by oil exploitation and support the court case against Lundin in Sweden”. The recent decision echoes their call in 2000 to suspend oil exploitation until

In an interview on 17 April with Dagens Nyheter, Swedish prosecutor Henrik Attorps said that the Lundin investigation is coming to a close. “We hope to be able to send final notice shortly.” Mr Attorps’ statement followed Lundin’s defence lawyers’ formal request to close down the investigation because it violates Article 6 of the European

On November 6th, Ian H. Lundin and Alex Schneiter published an open letter on a company website that is dedicated to the war crimes investigation. These are our key take-aways, The Prosecutor decided in September to conduct additional interrogations after police raids of the company and family offices had uncovered new evidence. The letter suggests

Dagens Industri reports on September 21st that Swedish war crimes prosecutor Henrik Attorps has decided to interview Alex Schneiter and Ian Lundin yet again. The explanation given is that the material seized during the Swiss police’s raid of Lundin’s offices in Geneva in February 2018 arrived in Sweden in November 2018 only and it has

Towards criminal liability of corporations for human rights violations: The Lundin case in Sweden The Lundin may become a landmark case because of the novelty and complexity of the legal issues that the Swedish court will decide. In particular, with regard to the assessment of the individual criminal liability of the executives of Lundin, the