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.

Martin Schibbye is a journalist, one of the few covering the Lundin trial in Sweden. Photo: Schibbye stands alone at the entrance to courtroom 34 in Stockholm.

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Martin Schibbye (journalist): “Sweden believed in Lundin”

Six months have passed since the start of the longest trial in Swedish history, which will last another two years. Time for a first assessment by one of its most assiduous observers, Martin Schibbye, who spent 438 days of his life in an Ethiopia jail for investigating oil firm Lundin accused of complicity in war […]

By Olivier Truc (our correspondent in Stockholm, Sweden)