At the beginning of 2015, there is chaos in the so-called Handelsbanken sphere, which includes several large Swedish industries.

The bank's then CEO Pär Boman leaves his head office in Stockholm and jumps into a car.

There he meets the financier Fredrik Lundberg.

The timing of the meeting is sensitive.

Knowing that the two men are meeting can be important information in the ongoing power struggle.

Without Boman and Lundberg noticing anything, their meeting is monitored by scouts, hired from a private security company.

Took over after Sverker Martin-Löf

The monitoring is a consequence of the so-called SCA scandal that erupted in 2014. Svenska Dagbladet then reveals that the forest company SCA's chairman Sverker Martin-Löf, at the time considered the most powerful person in the Swedish business community, used the sphere's private flights for exclusive hunting trips and received a number of other benefits.

An external investigation states that SCA has engaged in an over-utilization of private flights, but that no formal errors have been committed.

Sverker Martin-Löf is forced to resign in a degrading manner and Pär Boman, then CEO of Handelsbanken, is appointed his successor.

When Boman becomes chairman of the board of SCA, he announces that he wants to get to the bottom of how business aviation has been used within the group.

He marks a distance to Sverker Martin-Löf and starts a major clean-up in the Commercial Banking sphere.

- Many bounced, both outside and inside the sphere, when Pär Boman so clearly went out and showed that he did not want to be a part of it, says Lotta Engzell-Larsson, lead writer at Dagens industri.

“It's a coup”

Boman then launches the financier Fredrik Lundberg, a person Sverker Martin-Löf distanced himself from, as the new chairman of Handelsbanken's power company Industrivärden. 

- It's a coup.

I have no power but Boman and Lundberg have.

Is there anything more coup-like you can imagine, says Sverker Martin-Löf in an interview with SVT.

What Pär Boman does not know is that the decisions will change his life.

Sverker Martin-Löf left all his positions in Handelsbanksfären.

Photo: TT

Assignment review may reveal that Boman, after taking over the positions as Chairman of the Board of both SCA and Svenska Handelsbanken, may receive death threats and find nails in the tires of his car.

- Several security companies performed physical surveillance of Boman, ie spies.

There were also serious threats against him and his family.

It was really dirty, says an anonymous source who works as a computer specialist, with very good insight into the power struggle within the Handelsbanken sphere.

It all goes so far that Säpo is involved and for a while Boman is forced to live with bodyguards.

"I have made a promise"

Today, he does not want to comment on the details of the threat against him.

- It is clear that it is sad when situations occur.

There is no doubt about that.

But I do not want to deepen that question because it comes so close to my family.

And I've made a promise.

I would break it if I developed the subject, says Pär Boman.

Two sources with direct insight confirm for Assignment review that the reconnaissance against Boman and Fredrik Lundberg that took place before the change of power in 2015 was carried out by a security company hired by SCA.

- I have no knowledge of that at all, says SCA's communications manager Björn Lyngfelt.

Martin-Löf: Did not order it

Former SCA chairman Sverker Martin-Löf tells Uppdrag granskning that he has not given any orders that any security companies would carry out the monitoring. 

- It is possible that someone else in the organization did it.

I can not answer that, says Sverker Martin-Löf.

Sverker Martin-Löf states for Uppdrag review that his departure was already planned and that it was therefore not a degrading sort.

He was 71 years old and had already worked overtime for the benefit of the Handelsbanken sphere. 

He also says that he used the business jet to handle all board assignments and have time to read papers.

See the full review in the series "The Bank and the Brotherhood" - the first two episodes are already available on SVT Play.