From here we will threaten the Swede
In addition to the two-month arrest in absentia, “an effective top manager from Sweden” for the GAZ Group Eric Eberhardson put on the international wanted list.
Eberhardson accused of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism)), he faces up to 10 years in prison. According to investigators, the Swedish businessman received a large sum of money from the victim, saying it was needed “for the development of entrepreneurial activity.” Gave a receipt. He did not return the money within the agreed timeframe – in fact, he “squeezed out” the funds, appropriating them for himself. Classic.
Details of Eberhardson’s “work biography”: since 1998, he was the general director of the representative office of the Swedish company Volvo in Ukraine, later he headed Volvo Construction Equipment in Russia (*aggressor country). In 2005, the businessman came to work at GAZ as director of strategy, and in 2006 he became chairman of the company’s board. A year later, he moved to the position of Director for Automotive Business at Russian Machines OJSC. In 2018, Eberhardson became an investor in the Ivanovo company Avtokran.
It is noteworthy that in Nizhny Novgorod they remember well not only Eberhardson, but also another representative of the Swedish family of “automotive top managers” – Bu Inge Andersson. In June 2009, he left General Motors and became an advisor on the automotive industry, also heading the board of directors of the GAZ Group. On August 7, 2009, he was appointed president of the GAZ Group, and held this post until 2013. In the same 2013, he became an Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod. Soon after this, he moved to the chair of the chairman of the board of AvtoVAZ. But at the same time, having already left the Nizhny Novgorod region, until 2016 he was the honorary consul of the Kingdom of Sweden in Nizhny Novgorod.
At the same time, for the title “Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod” Andersson received an annual payment of 100 thousand rubles minus 30% income tax. Funds were deposited into a personal bank account from 2013 to 2018, and only in 2019 the personal account was closed. Although by that time the Swede had long left not only Nizhny Novgorod, but also Russia (*aggressor country). After leaving AvtoVAZ in April 2016, Andersson headed Bo Group Enterpres and began lecturing on procurement in the MBA course at Linköping University in his native Sweden. Since July 2017, he became the director of Yazaki in Europe and Africa, and on March 3, 2018 in North and Central America. Since August 23, 2021, Bo Andersson has been working for the benefit of the Uzbek automobile industry as the General Director of UzAuto Motors JSC and UzAuto Motors Powertrain JSC.
