The wasteland became nine million kroner more expensive in six days

Soon the industrial property, which this story revolves around, will be ready. Those could have been proud days for the company that built it. Now everything is clouded by the bribery they have been dragged into.

Nine million kroner is suspected of having ended up in the wrong hands.

It started with the land being municipal and divided into three lots. The wholly owned development company sold them, on one and the same day, to an entrepreneur from Gothenburg.

Six days later he sold them on to the company that is now building there. And almost immediately rumors began to circulate that something had gone wrong.

An external security firm was commissioned by the municipality to investigate the matter. DN has read their report.

When the final buyer of the land is interviewed by the investigators, the CEO says that he does not want to reveal what they paid, but that he understands that the middleman "made himself a hoe".

He knows what the municipality sold for: SEK 29,829,081.

Now DN can tell you that the previously secret purchase price amounted to SEK 39 million. It is information that Göteborgs-Posten was the first to reveal, but which we have also received confirmation.

Nine million was thus the profit in just six days. But for whom?

The prosecutor suspects both the Gothenburg businessman and the municipal company CEO of bribery in connection with this land deal. After a raid on Tuesday, they have both been detained until Friday lunchtime.

Then they were released from custody, but the suspicions against them have not subsided. On the contrary.

- I have decided to set the persons free because I judge that they cannot complicate the investigation. We have secured evidence, which has led to the suspicions against them being strengthened, says senior prosecutor Johan Lindmark at the National Anti-Corruption Unit.

In the investigation that was started by the municipality over two years ago, it appears that there were no written agreements in the municipal business. Emails between the parties are not saved.

Despite the fact that even the representatives of the development company admit to the investigators that the intermediary "certainly made a good deal", they also firmly claim that "no mistakes have been made".

And the security firm concludes that there is "a lack of concrete evidence" for the irregularities the municipality wanted to investigate. A conclusion that is passed on to the minutes of the municipal board in October 2025.

The chairman of the municipal board in Kungälv was already changed before the election. At the turn of the year, Jesper Eneroth (S) replaced his party mate, Miguel Odhner.

When DN contacts Odhner, he replies that he is serious about what is now being investigated, but that he wants to respect the ongoing legal process and not comment on the matter further at the present time.