What did Sweden's heaviest industry leader do in the summer of 2014?

I do not know, but apparently they did not look at Rapport.

Had they done so, they would have known who IS was, that the sect took Mosul and spread its Islamist terrorist power over areas where Ericsson was in the process of setting up mobile networks for its customer Asiacell.

Maybe they had then discussed the matter during a board meeting and made sure to think a little extra about how IS control and business go together.

On July 14, IS kidnapped fitters working for Ericsson in Iraq.

IS called and demanded payment so that Ericsson, as "infidels", could remain.

A senior Ericsson chief in the Middle East was informed of the kidnapping.

But Ericsson continued to build its mobile networks.

The manager took a seat on the group management.

This can be read in Ericsson's own investigation.

Which only started four years later.

From what I can read from it, it is highly probable that Ericsson in the long run paid IS to transport its equipment, in cash via the carrier.

"An astonishing picture of Ericsson's business in IS country"

According to the investigation, "it cannot be ruled out that the carrier was involved in bribery and illegal financing of terrorism in order to carry out the transports for Ericsson."

It is not proven that any Ericsson employee was directly involved.

It is an astonishing picture of Ericsson's business in IS country that is being painted.

This is certainly not the first time bribes have been discovered in Ericsson.

In 2019, the United States was fined SEK 10 billion for corruption deals in Djibouti, China, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Kuwait and Vietnam.

Swedish export giants have been striving for growth for more than 100 years.

They see opportunities when new markets open up.

They face a reality that is not in the least reminiscent of how to do business here at home in Sweden.

It is complex and difficult.

You have to have respect for that.

Fortunately, those who lead Sweden's export giants have decades of experience in such deals.

It sometimes goes wrong, which the companies regret when it is revealed, but not infrequently they also emphasize the benefit they do when they help countries and peoples to economic development by being on site and building.

This with IS and mobile masts is something completely different.

Definitely not build and develop.

Other than possibly Ericsson's income statement.

The decision to withhold the stock market investigation - raises even more questions

The board at that time consisted of Ericsson's current CEO Börje Ekholm, at that time CEO of Investor, Jacob Wallenberg, and former Volvo CEO Leif Johansson.

The absolute top forces in Swedish business life thus let something that looks like the financing of Islamist terror happen.

Börje Ekholm has described the fined bribery offenses in Djibouti 2019 as works by "individual rotten eggs" which Ericsson unfortunately did not discover until it was too late.

It can happen, but how the "rotten eggs" in IS went under the radar of Ekholm, Wallenberg and Johansson is a little harder to understand.

Jacob Wallenberg and Leif Johansson have been selling trucks, washing machines, telecom equipment, weapons, aircraft, mine drills, medicines, and much more in all corners of the world for decades.

Somewhere I can understand in itself whether Börje Ekholm, who at that time was never the head of an industry but mostly handled money and shareholdings, leaned a little against the judgment of the other two gentlemen.

Jacob Wallenberg, chairman of Investor, was also his boss.

But the IS investigation is dated 11 December 2019. It is less than a week after Börje Ekholm's press conference on the above-mentioned bribe of 10 billion in the United States.

The decision to withhold the stock market IS investigation and hope that investigative journalists would not find out the whole thing raises even more questions.