The competition rider was acquitted in both the district court and the court of appeal for the reported events, which date back seven to 13 years.

But he admitted sexual relations with two young employees and a 15-year-old student.

In the police preliminary investigation and in the verdicts, several women were protected by confidentiality.  

A couple of the women also reported the rider to the Swedish Equestrian Association in 2021.

During its investigation, the union demanded to know the names and which information in the police preliminary investigation was about whom.

“No need to worry”

Two of the notifiers tell Uppdrag ganskning that they found it difficult to disclose their names to the Equestrian Association, because they did not know who would read the sensitive information.

But they were promised confidentiality.

"You don't have to worry about the information being spread through the Equestrian Association.

It is only a basis for the Disciplinary Committee's proceedings and they are confidential,"

wrote the union's member ombudsman in an email. 

The union first took the case as a "serious violation" to its own disciplinary committee, where the penalty can be suspension for up to ten years.

But the statute of limitations, which was then two months, had passed and the board did not want to change its rules.

The association then appealed the decision to the National Sports Board (RIN), sport's "supreme court", but they refused.

In the documents that were sent from the Equestrian Association to RIN, there were two of the names of the applicants and the documents also contained sensitive information about sexual acts, this can be seen by Uppdrag gränskning. 

- They must be on our side.

It feels like the only thing that came out of us reporting was that all our names are completely open, says one of the applicants.

Reveals: More names have been revealed

The Equestrian Federation states that they will now review their routines.  



- This was an attachment to the report.

And their names are obviously included there.

We have to review that, says Ulf Brömster, chairman of the Swedish Equestrian Association. 


It is not only the Equestrian Federation that disclosed the promised anonymity of the applicants.

When Task Review requests documents in the case from the National Sports Board, the names are released.

A mistake, according to the board.

But Uppdrag gransning has obtained two more decisions in which sensitive information and the names of the notifiers appear.

The National Sports Board's lawyers respond by email:  

"RIN has found that the handling deviated from a long-standing routine, namely that a release must be preceded by an integrity check and, where applicable, an approval by the respective chairman in the matter concerned."  

The competition rider denies all accusations.