The company Apple Inc. has offered former foreign minister Ann Linde (S) to sit on an advisory body within the company.
Ann Linde has reported the offer to the Karensnämnden, the committee that takes a position on possibly even when, and whether former ministers should receive restrictions when they take on assignments in business and other non-governmental activities.
Getting restrictions
The suspension board believes that Linde should be subject to restrictions.
In its decision, the committee writes:
"The restriction means a prohibition against using and/or conveying information about such individual cases, processes and issues that Ann Linde has acquired as a minister and which are not available to a wider circle in the notified assignment."
Linde: "No lobbying"
However, Ann Linde herself, on the other hand, does not believe that the assignment would involve any conflict of interest or an equal relationship.
In her report, she writes:
"The current advisory body consists of people with a background in politics, civil society and business, and is tasked with assisting Apple Inc. with analyzes and assessments of global trends.
It does not involve any lobbying activities, and is not a board assignment," she writes herself in the report, according to the Altinget.
PM Nilson escaped restrictions
When Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's former state secretary PM Nilsson went to Timbro after it was discovered that he poached eels, he completely escaped restrictions from the Karensnämnden, which wrote.
"In this case, the Karensnämnden, which takes particular account of the fact that PM Nilsson was state secretary for a very short time, assesses that the reported employment with Timbro does not entail any such risk that could justify a transitional restriction.
The suspension board therefore decides not to announce any such restriction.".