In a recently announced decision, the Supreme Court has considered that there is a sufficient connection to Sweden for a Swedish court’s jurisdiction for aiding and abetting crimes against international law when the prosecution against a foreign citizen who is not resident in Sweden concerns acts that the foreign citizen is alleged to have committed alone or in concert with a Swedish citizen in his role as representative of non-Swedish companies in a Swedish group.
In the fall of 2021, two people were charged with aiding and abetting crimes against international law, a serious crime. According to the indictment, the defendants, in their capacity as representatives of companies within a Swedish oil company group, had committed the crimes in Sudan during the years 1999–2003 when there was a non-international armed conflict in the country.
One of the defendants…
