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Johnson Matthey

During the period 1980 - 1990 I worked with sales / marketing for the English noble metals group Johnson Matthey (JM). Our office was located at Rosenlundsgatan, Stockholm. About in 1983 I discovered by chance that a former employee had made serious administrative errors in the handling of platinum metals. My boss, DM, gave me the assignment to conduct an investigation. It showed that most of the errors could be attributed to one customer. Once the investigation was complete, we were able to recover metals at value corresponding to 2.5 million SEK. (360 000 U.S. dollars). I want to emphasize that there was no dishonesty in this "story". It was just incompetence that caused the errors.

In 1985 it was revealed that one of our employees, UV, had stolen precious metals worth the equivalent of 26 million SEK (3,7 million. U.S. dollars). UV confessed and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Most of the stolen value he had gambled away on horse betting. During the autumn of 2017 I have checked the official Swedish death register. UV died during the spring of 1990, at age 47, in Malmköping.

When I recapitulate the circumstances in the months before UV was arrested, I have reason to believe that someone was trying to frame me for the ongoing crime. Our management knew that metals were missing, before UV was arrested, but did not know what was behind .

The CIA is behind this attempt to frame me. They had already stamped me as a Communist (since I visited the Eastern States) which meant that I fitted well into the Palme murder political scenario - as the CIA wanted it to be perceived. They could also point to the suspicious fires in Chicago. By discredit me for the theft of precious metals they then could complete the picture of me as a hardened criminal. Now I was the perfect "patsy" in the Palme assassination.

I never knew UV closer during my time at JM. Nothing in the subsequent investigation indicated that he had an accomplice. A young female employee at the company, EM, revealed UV. She saw when UV was coming out from our warehouse with an envelope which she knew contained precious metals. After that the story unfolds. Shortly thereafter EM was placed at the JM Group's office in Hong Kong. It allowed us to understand that this was based on security considerations. In connection with the theft I criticized the management. I argued that the thefts, which lasted six years, could have been detected earlier if the company's administrative procedures had worked. I had already in 1983 pointed to weaknesses in the administration. The JM Group management knew about this so therefore the "judgement" became hard .

A year after the theft, we who still worked for JM were told that the investigators were not able to get the perpetrator's recognized stolen quantities to conform to what was actually missing. In doing so, it was understood that there could be several suspects. I continued my employment until 1990. At that time, our office in Stockholm was almost completely phased out. Almost immediately after I had finished at JM, I noticed that it started to snap in my home phone. I was urged by a number of authorities to submit answers to various watchdog issues. I was somewhat puzzled by this because those who were investigating the theft had had plenty of time to check both me and the other staff. I had at that time contact with an employment officer in Tyresö. When I called him, he confirmed that it was the Police who was behind this reconnaissance. However, I could not get confirmation from any quarter that I would be suspected of theft of precious metals. I felt a certain annoyance at being monitored, but took it all with equanimity. Since I had nothing to hide I had nothing to worry about. Years passed and the monitoring continued. I began to suspect that the Police tried to frame me for serious crimes. I wrote to the then Minister of Justice Laila Freivalds on the matter in June 1999. She replied by letter and referred to regulations which basically prevented a minister from acting in a case concerning a private individual. Still, at this time, I made no connection whatsoever to the Palme Murder.