When five-year-old John Walter was found dead after deviating from Platea's HVB home in Hagfors in June this year, the business had received repeated serious criticism from the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate for several years.
The CEO, Johanna Rastad, admitted in an interview just over a month before John Walter's death that it was a failure that they were unable to correct the shortcomings.
- It is probably a failure that we do not get to a perfect situation, I must say, she said then.
Two are suspected of crimes
After John Walter's death, the owner group Humana carried out a lex Sarah investigation which showed such extensive shortcomings that all operations in Hagfors were closed down.
About 70 people lost their jobs.
Two of them are also suspected of crimes in connection with the death.
But the highest responsible person for Platea, the CEO Johanna Rastad, was promoted despite the shortcomings in the business she was responsible for.
At the beginning of September, Johanna Rastad was presented as the new CEO and head of the entire Humana Group.
- It is an incredible scandal, says John Walter's father Hans-Erik Sjöholm.
He believes that the CEO of Platea should be punished and not promoted.
- I understand the father's grief and anger, but it is a much broader responsibility than just being responsible for the operations in Hagfors, which has merited Johanna Rastad to the new job, says Humana's Chairman of the Board Sören Mellstig.
Big wins
Under Johanna Rastad's leadership, Platea made unusually large profits.
During the most recent financial year, 2020, Platea generated SEK 29 million in profit for the owner Humana.
This corresponded to 39 percent of sales.
- Had the money been invested there to solve problems that IVO had been on them over and over again, the business would not have gone to its knees and it would not have been the case that it did not hold up in terms of security.
My son could run from there, completely unattended, says John Walter's father Hans-Erik Sjöholm.