SAAB trial started Yesterday in Vänersborg District Court

Last year launched an investigation nto the criminal activities of the former Saab cars company. Seven people is facing being charged by a prosecutor for serious economic crimes in Saab Automobile, among them were former Chairman Victor Muller; former Chief Executive Jan Åke Jonsson, head lawyer Kristina Geers.

The trial opened yesterday, at the Vänersborg District Court, in Sweden, with the statements of the Prosecution. Former owner Victor Muller, former CEO Jan-Ake Jonsson and head lawyer Kristina Geers claim they are innocent.

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The alleged crimes, labelled gross obstruction of tax control, took place in 2011 when Saab was struggling for its survival.

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According to Swedish media, Kristina Geers says there was intensive work to try to save the company. – I’ve done my best to save Saab, but obviously I have not done anything criminal, says Kristina Geers.

The prosecution believes that evidence is strong enough to provide a reasonable chance of conviction in court. The evidence consists of several thousand pages of material and contains, among other witnesses and lots of emails. Something that according to the prosecutor shows that crimes have been committed within the Saab company.

– In my opinion this is good evidence, the prosecutor says Olof Sahlgren.

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But lawyer Hans Strandberg, representing Victor Muller, disagree.

– “We have made an incredibly thorough review and I can not see how a court will come to a conviction against Victor Muller. It is a very strange indictment”, he says for P4 radio.

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Goran AničićJanuary 25, 2017

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For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

2 Comments

Luke Mallory says:

January 25, 2017 at 2:35 pm

Sweden’s government should be the ones on trial, for refusing to help Saab or Volvo when they needed it, instead stating that ‘we’re not in the car building industry.’

Absolutely disgusting.

Good luck and best wishes to VM, JAJ and KG!

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Ron Olsen says:

June 9, 2017 at 5:34 am

On April 07, 2017 Vanersborg District Court acquitted all seven defendants of tax evasion and fraud charges. Victor Muller and Jan Ake Jonsson, were accused along with five other people of forging documents to secure funding from Russian tycoon Vladimir Antonov and of giving an overly optimistic view of Saab’s finances.

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