Published 20 January 2024 at 15.25
Domestic. Commander-in-Chief Micael Bydén's new lobbying company, which he started together with former mistress and now fiancee Linda Staaf, is attracting fierce criticism from several quarters.
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– He should resign, says labor law lawyer Tommy Iseskog to P1 Morgon.
As a senior military officer, you are usually not allowed to do side jobs in Sweden, but ÖB has thus received a dispensation to start a lobbying company together with his fiancee, who is a former senior manager in the police. The company must be allowed to operate while ÖB remains in office.
The company, like other lobbying companies, has a very diffuse description of its operations in the articles of association and states that it will deal with “strategic environmental analysis, company development, leadership and lectures”.
The question now is whether the lobbying company is a “trust-damaging sideline”, which in that case is prohibited for heads of authorities, according to the Public Employment Act.
According to Iseskog, who has written a large number of books on labor law published of Norstedts Juridik, the matter is clear.
– If there is even the slightest risk of breach of trust, the line has been crossed, says labor law lawyer Tommy Iseskog to P1 Morgon.
The Ministry of Defense has approved Bydén's and Staaf's start of the company, but according to Iseskog it is not particularly central, because it is the public's trust that the legislation is there to protect.
– My conclusion is that he cannot really continue and that means that he should resign or that the client should act, says Iseskog.