Details: Kubal may be about to be sold - visited by delegations

The delegations that are supposed to have visited Kubal come, according to the information SVT has, in one case from Qatar but also from Sweden. The purpose of the visits must have been a possible purchase of the company.

SVT has asked the question, whether there have been foreign and Swedish visits to the factory as part of a possible sales process, to Kubal's CEO Mats Andersson, who does not want to confirm the information.

- I cannot comment on that, he says.

Not surprised

SR journalist Knut Kainz Rognerud has written a book about Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who, according to an investigation by the Swedish Tax Agency, is the main owner of Kubal and is on the EU's sanctions list. The Swedish Tax Agency's investigation into the ownership has previously been dismissed by Kubal's legal representative.

Knut Kainz Rognerud does not want to comment on the unconfirmed information about the visits, but is not surprised that things now seem to be happening around Kubal.

- I am surprised that it took so long, he says.

- One scenario is that the company goes bankrupt because companies in Sweden and Europe do not want to deal with them due to the threat of sanctions.

"Noisy right now"

In the video, he launches two more possible scenarios. Knut Kainz Rognerud assesses the situation for Kubal as worrying.

- It is quite clear that it is very noisy right now and the crisis that the company is in is spreading, the company's auditors recently resigned, he says.

The industry organization Swedish aluminum currently has no contacts with Kubal and is not aware of any possible sale.

- We haven't heard anything, says Melinda Lemke, who is general secretary at Swedish aluminium.

Difficult to sell within the EU

According to Knut Kainz Rognerud, a purchase by a Swedish stakeholder, or an stakeholder from another EU country, is currently difficult given the Russian ownership and prevailing sanctions.

SVT has also sought representatives of the Russian industrial group En + Group, which includes Kubal, for a comment, without success.