At the center of the wind power complex - now both companies are bankrupt

The bankruptcy decision was made by Ångermanland District Court on Tuesday.

This is not immediately unexpected.

NL Construction was one of the companies that was at the center of the large wind power complex in Viksjö last winter and has since been insolvent.

A corporate reorganization earlier this year failed and now the company lacks both operations and money.

Small business owners in a pinch

What remains are debts.

Either 70 million or 280 million, depending on how you count, and it is the winter's subcontractors and small businesses in Viksjö that end up in trouble.

Emma Cutting at Kaiding's law firm in Östersund has been appointed bankruptcy trustee:

- I have just started to get involved in this bankruptcy and want to urge everyone who thinks they have claims on the bankruptcy estate to contact me.

I have been informed that these are debts totaling about 70 million, but that is a preliminary figure.

she says to SVT.

Related to Active Works

It is NL Construction that filed for bankruptcy and the bankruptcy application comes just two weeks after the related company Active Works also went bankrupt.

The companies have been very close to each other.

Not only have they had the same company representative and address, they also had a close collaboration in Viksjö where the contracted subcontractors then did not get paid.

Proposed bankruptcy trustee

Bankruptcy trustees will now investigate the cause of the bankruptcies.

In both cases, it is the companies themselves that have filed for bankruptcy.

It is also the two companies that themselves have proposed the bankruptcy trustees who will find out about the complications.

Emma Cutting is thus the bankruptcy trustee that NL Construction wanted to see in the post.

- I do not know why they suggested me.

I have no previous relationship with anyone in NL Construction, she says.

Mutual debts

One issue that she will be forced to sort out as a bankruptcy trustee is the large mutual debts that NL Construction and Active Works say they have to each other.

Prior to the bankruptcy, NL Construction has reported a claim on Active Works of close to SEK 70 million, while Active Works has demanded NL Construction of SEK 216 million.