Published 19 July 2024 at 15.02
Domestic. The sports journalist Olof Lundh, who started the Football Channel, comes with new criticism of Fredrik Reinfeldt and his work as chairman of the Swedish Football Association, SvFF. In his summer talk, it appears, among other things, that Reinfeldt lets the union pay for his personal assistant.
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In “Summer in P1” Olof Lundh talks about the financial burden which Reinfeldt's personal assistant entails.
Despite an already strained economy, SvFF covers half of the costs for the assistant, who has worked with Reinfeldt for many years. This despite the fact that the union already has a person who is paid to be an assistant to the chairman.
– The decision that Reinfeldt could bring in an assistant of his own was made by the former general secretary Håkan Sjöstrand. This means that the association has taken on an extra cost for Reinfeldt's sake – something that affects football – in times of austerity packages where the association must save SEK 30 million in 2024 alone, says Olof Lundh in P1.
He brings up more examples. Reinfeldt, who receives a full fee of SEK 114,600 a month as chairman of SvFF, simultaneously sits on seven other boards and runs a limited company that last year had a turnover of nearly SEK nine million and made a profit of four and a half million.
By comparison, his representative, Karl-Erik Nilsson, chose to halve his SvFF fee when he became a member of the Uefa executive committee.
SvFF comments on the data in the summer talk for SVT Sport:
“Reinfeldt has continued to work with his assistant since he took office as chairman. To some extent through his company and to some extent as part of his role within SvFF. The person in question also supports others within SvFF with various administrative parts that are within the framework for the strategy we have to work efficiently and cost-consciously moving forward.”