FOI report on China business fails – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Försvarsmyndigheten suspected to sweep problems under the carpet, he believes.

It was envisaged last autumn and Contract Review SVT reported that Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) as a decoy, was in the process of licensing the software Edge to China that could be used for the dictatorship of mass destruction.

FOI then had to appoint a committee who proposed pipeline from serious criticism. The report, from the investigator Stefan Ryding-Berg, “confirms the picture that I have had all along on this file. There is no basis to talk about any decoy construction, it is not about military equipment and there is no secret in this, “commented FOI’s director general Jan-Olof Lind.

But the aim was to get to the bottom the question?

Peter Öhman, associate professor at Sundsvall University and an expert on the audit and inspections, considers that there are grounds for suspecting that the investigation is neither meant to be independent or comprehensive.

– It almost seems like they’ve thought from the beginning how they could use this, it will appear that they have handled this matter well, he says.

In order to avoid an audit to be under suspicion should investigators did not handpicked by the principal. Nor should the task be limited. Here, both things happened, says Ohman. The investigator has been procured without competition and just received information from FOI – not from, for example, KTH, or ISP, providing arms export permits.

– The restriction of the mission impossible a comprehensive review of FOI’s behavior in this case. The investigator has not been able to turn every stone, says Ohman.

The restriction, he notes, “is strongly reminiscent of other cases where organizations have been criticized for trying to sweep difficult issues under the carpet.”

The purpose of sublicense Edge via KTH described in documents from FOI as a way to work with a partner such as China, that the institution “can not or will sign contracts with.” According to the documents contained information about the structure of the management team and Lind gave its approval to the arrangement. It denied by Lind.

Since the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989 prevail across the EU arms embargo on China.