Was Ivar Kreuger assassinated?
The author and journalist Jan Gillberg argue that Ivar Kreuger
was assassinated on the 12th of
March 1932 in
his apartment in Paris.
One of Sweden's financial interests acquired , according to
Gillberg , agent Leon Birthschansky to murder Ivar Kreuger .
He also claims that "it is beyond any reasonable doubt that the
Wallenberg family had been without knowledge that Ivar Kreuger
was the victim of a murder conspiracy ."
It is true that Sweden had gone through two severe financial
crises in the last century and it is also true that the first
serious crisis arose in connection with the Kreuger bankruptcy
in 1932.
That this crisis has never been properly investigated is ,
according to Gillberg , due to Sweden for more than 60 years has
kept secret all the events surrounding what happened in the
Kreuger bankruptcy .
Through author Lars-Jonas Ångströms research and partly by
author and journalist Jan Gillbergs work , the picture of how
Ivar Kreuger was killed by noon 12
March 1932 in his apartment in Avenue Victor Emmanuel III of No.
5, has slowly emerged.
How Ivar Kreuger was murdered , can be found in Lars-Jonas
Ångströms book " Kreuger - murdered " .
Ångström cooperated with the court doctor Olle Lindquist in
Uppsala , showing that Kreuger was first stunned in his
apartment in Paris, then stabbed to death , before finally being
shot with a loose shot at the place where he had been the
connector so it came
to look like suicide.
Even at the preliminary examination of Ivar Kreugers bodies of
Gustav Vasa church crypt in Stockholm, Dr. Erik Karl Mark note
that it was NOT a suicide, but certainly a murder.
When he wanted to go further with the investigation, he was
never allowed to complete this.
Former governor of Stockholm, Niels Edén , quickly decided that
Ivar Kreuger was to be immediately cremated .
Jan Gillbergs research shows that Ivar Kreugers killer was
Russian, Leon Birthschansky that at the current time lived in
the Rue Saint Honoré in Paris .
To kill Ivar Kreuger , he received a sum of 16,000 francs ,
which in today's money equivalent to almost half a million
dollars .
The order for payment was telegraphed from Stockholm approx.
24
hours before the death of Kreuger was performed.
In his study of how the murder was ordered, Gillberg come to the
conclusion that it was the former Commercial Bank Manager Carl
Fresh , who gave the order to kill Ivar Kreuger on behalf of
Swedish
financial interests.
With the position that Carl Fresh had in the Swedish banks
and in the financial world then, he had many opportunities for
economic work against Ivar Kreuger .
According to both Gillberg and Ångström he was also engaged with
great sales af Kreuger papers with the aim to bring the whole
Kreuger trust in the economic crisis , in order to force a
bankruptcy.
When this failed , was the choice to murder Ivar Kreuger decided
as a last resort , as there had been spent large amounts of
money on bankruptcy trial and the risk of financial loss was too
great.
The consequences of the assassination was that competing
financial interests could enrich themselves in a manner which
lacks any historical comparison .
In Gillberg and Åkerströms theories of how the murder occurred
and who is served on the murder , there is no doubt that there
has been a murder.
The reasons were obvious , the Swedish public lost considerable
value by Ivar Kreuger was murdered while few large companies
came to earn big money on the distribution of the remaining
funds in the Kreuger group.
