The Lundin case in Sudan and the trial in Sweden

The Lundin case and the trial in Sweden

All our news articles and expert analyses about the Lundin case. A historic trial opened in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 5, 2023, to try Alex Schneiter and Ian Lundin, respectively former Chairman and former Managing Director of Swedish company Lundin Petroleum (renamed Orrön Energy in 2022). They are accused of complicity in war crimes perpetrated between 1999 and 2003 by the Sudanese army and allied militias in an area of the future South Sudan where the company was exploiting an oil field. This is a rare case in terms of international justice, since the company and its executives are directly accused of an international crime. And the outcome of the trial could shake the business world to its core. Justice Info deciphers all the latest justice news and the progress of this universal jurisdiction trial.

Lundin trial in Sweden - Photo: the defendants and their defence team wait in a corridor near courtroom 34.

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Lundin trial: “How can they believe those reports?”

Now the voice of South Sudanese victims is being heard in the big Swedish trial for complicity in war crimes that opened a year ago against two top bosses of the Lundin oil group. The parade of 32 witnesses, which began at the end of May and will continue to the beginning of December, seems […]

By Olivier Truc (our correspondent in Stockholm, Sweden)