The suspected spy couple who were recently arrested are said to have used their companies in the suspected illegal intelligence activities.
SVT Nyheter was able to reveal that the owner of one of the companies was a designated Russian intelligence agent - and that there were several connections to the Russian state defense industry.
The company is one of the companies that the Total Defense Research Institute, FOI, has taken a closer look at in its review of Russian investments and financial interests.
- Last spring, information emerged that the owner could possibly be the same person who had been expelled from France in the 80s and that he was a GRU agent, says Oscar Almén, project manager and researcher at FOI.
Have you had communication with Säpo?
- We have had contact with a number of different authorities.
Whether they have used the information is nothing we know.
128 Russian-owned Swedish companies
Now FOI has handed over its final report to the government: a list of a total of 128 Swedish companies that are Russian-owned.
The industries that dominate are construction, trade, information and communication and real estate.
Among the owners are four people who appear on the EU sanctions list and one who is on the US and UK lists.
- There is a relatively large number of the companies that have ceased to exist, gone bankrupt or that have changed the beneficial owner from Russian to non-Russian.
It is remarkable.
It is clear that in some cases it is a reaction to the sanctions, says Oscar Almén.
Since the beginning of the war, SVT Nyheter has examined the influence of Russian rulers in Sweden and has, among other things, been able to reveal the financial interests of oligarchs in Swedish businesses worthy of protection - such as tunnel projects, military equipment and information technology.
Several of the companies that we have taken a closer look at are now found on FOI's list.
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