A groundbreaking criminal case against a company accused of war crimes in South Sudan is now underway in Sweden, drawing parallels with the corporate complicity trials of Nuremberg in 1949. The trial in Stockholm against executives of the Swedish oil giant Lundin is expected to change the landscape of corporate accountability for international crimes.
In the Lundin case in Sweden, the reliability of the prosecutor's sources and the impartiality of the investigation are being called into question by Alexandre Schneiter's lawyers. The former Swiss CEO of the oil company is being prosecuted for complicity in war crimes.
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On November 11, the president and former director of the Lundin Energy company were indicted for complicity in war crimes. The charges relate to attacks carried out against civilians between 1999 and 2003 in an area of the future South Sudan where the Swedish company was operating an oil field.