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Corporations face the rising tide of justice
It is talked about for every war; it is revealed after every dictatorship; it is even more debated in the face of the destruction of the planet and climate change: the responsibility of businesses in international crimes is both regularly denounced and totally absent from international criminal justice since Nuremberg. Yet, at the national level, precedents exist, more and more complaints and prosecutions are being filed and high profile cases are being opened. Why have economic actors been so protected from criminal prosecution for their direct or indirect contribution to mass crimes? Should and can this protection be altered?
Ian Lundin finally speaks
In a Stockholm trial that started in September 2023, two directors of Swedish oil company Lundin Oil are charged with complicity in war crimes committed in Sudan between 1997 and 2003. Answering questions, company chairman Ian Lundin said often that he did not remember, and played down his level of involvement on the ground.
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