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Svea (Case B 5582-12. Svea hovrätt (Svea court of appeals). Sweden, November 29, 2017) court of appeals in Sweden acquitted former Telia chief executive Lars Nyberg on Uzbekistan corruption charges. Telia had already accepted the charges against the company. In 2017, the Swedish telecommunications company paid a penalty of $ 965 million for paying bribes of $ 330 million to the daughter of the then president of Uzbekistan a decade earlier. The bribed woman was Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Islam Karimov. Karimova held no official role with the Uzbek government. But she owned the company Takilant that was registered in Gibraltar and that could access one of Uzbekistan’s mobile licenses. After the Telia bribe to Karimova was discovered, several senior executives at Telia resigned or were fired. Islam Karimov died in September 2016, and his daughter was put under house arrest in Uzbekistan facing a number of white-collar charges (Burkitt-Gray, Court acquits former Telia CEO Nyberg on Uzbekistan corruption charges. Capacity Magazine, 2019).

Together with Nyberg, legal counsel Olli Tuohimaa and Eurasian manager Tero Kivisaari were acquitted by the court as well. The court proceedings that ended with their acquittal in Svea (Case B 5582-12. Svea hovrätt (Svea court of appeals). Sweden, November 29, 2017) court of appeals were studied by Schoultz and Flyghed (Crime Law Soc Chang 77(7):1–20, 2021) who applied the theater analogy to understand the performance in court. They looked at the theater of the courtroom as the stage for performance. The researchers were particularly interested in the performance of unbelonging by the defense, which implied that the three defendants did not rightly belong in the court situation.

The case study in this chapter concerning Lars Nyberg in Sweden repeats some of the text presented earlier in this book regarding storytelling in the courtroom.

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Gupta, C.M., Gottschalk, P. (2023). Lars Nyberg in Sweden. In: Trusted White-Collar Defendants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38433-2_7

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