Saab's former CEO is arrested
Updated 2013-05-21 07:18. Published 2013-05-21 06:11
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Saab Automobile's former CEO Jan Ake Jonsson, General Counsel Kristina Geers and CFO Karl Lindstrom was arrested yesterday on suspicion of evasion of tax.
It says several independent sources of Di, and stresses that the former Saab owner Victor Muller risk of being involved in the next stage.
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"It seems unlikely that the three detained persons, the status and history they have in the Swedish society has willfully committed such a serious offense. The ultimate goal is another, "said a lawyer with extensive experience and knowledge of Saab Automobile's organization.
Chief Prosecutor Olof Sahlgren on EBM in Gothenburg decided to arrest the three.
"Everything is based on a notification from the Tax and suspicion directed against a number of people in the former management of Saab, the years 2010 and 2011. We have taken a number of steps and it resulted in me this morning (read: yesterday) took the decision to bring in three people for questioning, "he says.
After questioning the three were arrested on probable cause suspected of serious evasion of tax, which can lead to imprisonment for up to four years.
Karl Lindstrom, who now works at Sony Mobile, should have been arrested in Lund and the other two in Gothenburg.
"For questions about this I refer to the chief prosecutor Olof Sahlgren," writes Erik Yström, press officer at Sony Mobile, in income, in response to the question whether any representative of Sony had been arrested.
One of Di's sources point out that the three had positions that make them interesting.
"It is common to hearing General Counsel, CFO and CEO at such surveys and suspicions. They must sign the agreement and responsibility, "said the source.
Kristina Geers, a former general counsel at Saab Automobile, one of the three suspects were seen in a petition to the District Court in Vanersborg. She sat on the Board until the summer of 2011.
"There is a quality of suspicion. In the current situation, they have received notifications on probable cause for serious evasion of tax, "says Olof Sahlgren.
The notification from the Tax came last spring. Olof Sahlgren other hand, has not received a notice of violation from the liquidator.
"This is a limited investigation and I can hopefully relatively soon have more information to provide. There is absolutely no gigantic investigation, "he says.
He would not elaborate on what the suspicions are about. Several sources claim that the remuneration of Victor Muller and car designer Jason Castriota, who designed the new Saab 9-3, was maxed to avoid "unnecessary" tax.
Another task is to GM in connection with the reorganization of Saab in 2010 willfully to have brought out parts of Saab's pension funds to the United States.