This autumn, among other things, the government and the Riksbank were forced to revise their forecasts due to serious errors in the important unemployment statistics submitted by the subcontractor Evry to Statistics Sweden. Among other things, Statistics Sweden had to adjust GDP for the second quarter by approximately SEK 5 billion.

Very profitable

But the problems have not been seen in the management or the owners' salary envelope. On the contrary.

Evry was very profitable in 2018 with a profit before tax of almost one billion Swedish kronor.

In addition, the principal owner, the British venture capital company Apax, has earned approximately SEK 8 billion on stock exchange listing and purchase of Evry for five years. The money went through a holding company in Luxembourg to the parent company on the low-tax island of Guernsey.

Evry's Chairman of the Board in 2018 was Göran Lindahl. Lindahl was forced to step down as CEO of the engineering group ABB in 2000 after the principal owner announced and criticized his pension of over half a billion SEK. He later had to repay part of the pension. According to Evry's annual report for 2018, he then owned over one million shares in the company, worth around SEK 30 million. Some of the shares he had received from Evry in the form of options.

bonus Rain

Neither has Evry's managers gone unlucky.

Every's then CFO, along with the incoming and outgoing CEO during 2017 and 2018, received bonuses and options worth a total of approximately SEK 70 million.

SVT has sought Göran Lindahl and Apax board members in Evry without results.