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SaabsUnited has reached a source with close insight into the matter regarding Anders Borg in the Aftonbladet article published earlier today, which states the following:

“At the time, mid april, when the EIB denied Vladimir Antonov to buy 51% of the real-estate company, even though the NDO approved the deal and GM gave their consent. Eva Srejber visited Hans Lindblad and Anders Borg in the ministry of finance for a day.”

So the big question is, how could Anders Borg not know at that time, that EIB would never had approved Mr Antonov from the start??

Robert Collin from Aftonbladet.se writes (original article here):

EMPTY FACTORIES. The production of Saab’s factories is at a standstill and the company is on the brink of ruin. Vladimir Antonov can save the company, but first he must be approved by the European Investment Bank, where Anders Borg is a director. But the Finance Minister does not seem to do anything to save Saab.

Borg has no idea – though he sits on the Board:
The European Investment Bank stopped Antonov – The government says the EIB does not respond – even though Borg sits on the Board.

Saab is on the brink of ruin. The subcontractors are not paid while production is stopped and the staff are not getting their salaries.

Russian Vladimir Antonov want to go in with a billion SEK in the company, as soon as he gets the government and the European Investment Bank (EIB) approval. He has already injected well over one billion through unofficial channels, but now he’s hard to do more without getting some form of security in the company.

The National Debt Office’s blessing, he has already received. But the government is “ducking” and argue time and again that they know nothing, nothing can be done and that they are awaiting a decision from the EIB.

Earlier this week, the confusion picked up when the EIB through its spokesman Pär Isaksson said the decision to not let Antonov in , a decision who was already taken in 2009, remains unchanged. Nothing else will do. The fact that Saab submitted an application for new ownership assessment and Antonov course passed the examination at the Debt Office has no meaning, according to Pär Isaksson.
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CHRISTER GERLACH, a journalist and writer has published the following article in DN.se (original article here) which bring up many of the points and issues that we as a community have been trying to make for such a long time. This is a google translation that I’ve tried to clean up as much as possible, I hope enjoy the reading! Read the rest of this entry →

This is a missing people report for everyone at SaabsUnited!

A 25 year old guy from Norway named Eirik Tveiterås and his 1993 Saab 900 Coupé is missing since monday! If anyone has seen either him or his car which is registered as DF99503 please contact SaabsUnited Crew!

I’ve been looking around on the newswires a bit, there’s no real braking news but a few bits here and there that add some info to our picture.
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Today has been an interesting day, was just about to go to bed, gotta get up early tomorrow morning for a flight to Cyprus and back, when I received an e-mail. I’m not gonna tell you guys who it was from, not going to say what was written in it. But I’m going to fall asleep with a smile on my face, knowing that there are fantastic people out there who do amazing things! Let’s wait and see!

From E24.se (original article here):

The Swedish NDO did not know about the EIB position to reject Antonov into Saab as the original deal was set up. General-manager of the NDO Bo Lundgren is very critical towards how the EIB have handled the issue surrounding Antonov as a share holder these past months.

Thursday it was confirmed by the EIB that the bank gave its loan on the grounds that Vladimir Antonov would not take ownership in Saab.

Accodring to Lundgren, the NDO was informed about these grounds as the original deal was set up, but afterwards the situation has changed. Antonov has filed an application to become a share-holder and we have not received any information from the EIB that their intention is to never approve it. Read the rest of this entry →

Lars Carlström states to SaabsUnited that this makes it clear that government has played a double role in the matter having one version of the story to the public, Saab and Vladimir Antonov and another inwards. They have effectively lied to the Swedish people, Saab and everyone else which could have caused damages in amounts as high as billions of swedish crowns. There has been several hundreds of lawyers involved in this process and has taken a lot of time and resources away from both Vladimir Antonov and Saab.

This could very well cause a crisis inside the government!

BREAKING NEWS:

The EIB have now confirmed that they informed the government in 2009 that one of the conditions of the loan towards SAAB were that Vladimir Antonov was never to become a share holder in Saab! This effectively means that the Swedish Government has not told the truth to Saab and that Vladimir Antonov have wasted a huge amount of time and money on something that would never have happened anyway! Read the rest of this entry →