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You are on the starting line to become a national merchant.
On November 24, former city manager Anders Sandén will open a country shop in Fengersfors in the municipality of Åmåls in Dalsland. A small town of just over 300 inhabitants.
“I’m going to get off to a good start widening the range and starting with the Sunday opening,” Sandén writes in a Facebook post.
Anders Sandén was president of the Sigtuna municipal board from 2002 to 2013. It was during this period that the SVT “Assignment Review” reviewed Sandén.
The program revealed, among other things, that there would have been a pact between the construction company Peab and Anders Sandén. According to “Assignment review”, Peab would have provided the Sigtuna Social Democrats with polling stations and electoral posters in various elections at the same time that Peab received several large construction projects in the municipality. The “assignment review” could prove this through emails from Peab to Sandén and through documents showing how the municipal management in Sigtuna planned the construction projects where it was agreed in advance that Peab would build and the municipality would buy the homes when they were lists.
Got a parachute for 1.4 million SEK
When the revelation came, Anders Sandén was fired as municipal director in Åmål, a position he assumed in 2019.
Åmål City Council Chairman Michael Karlsson (S) was behind Sandén’s hiring. And it was also Karlsson who fired him.
– It’s about trust and in the balance sheet that we do now, we have reached this decision, said Michael Karlsson when he fired Sandén.
Sandén’s recruitment cost just over 170,000 SEK and his parachute 1.4 million SEK. Karlsson sent the invoice to the taxpayers in Åmål.
Anders Sandén is still upset after the review and that he was fired.
– Being exposed to this and the effects it has had on me, I hope no one else has to put up with it, he says and believes that he did not do anything illegal and that what happened in Sigtuna happened many years ago.
What effects has it had?
– It is both personal and work. It was a murder of character. If you are 43 years old and you had not had the opportunity to set up a shop in the country or your own company and you had to return to work but could not be an employee, you have ruined your entire working life, says Sandén.
Nor does he understand why he was fired.
– I can understand and not understand the municipal council, says Sandén, who believes that he was in the process of saving Åmål.
He adds:
– They needed me. Åmål has, among other things, the highest youth unemployment in Sweden and I made politics realize that we should focus on the issue of work.
Waiting for the new job
But now he still wants to become a national merchant.
– When I left Stockholm, the idea was to go back to Dalsland and open a country store. The assignment as city manager in Åmål got in the way and he really hadn’t counted on that.
Will you work yourself in the store?
– Yes, then I will have one or two employees depending on the season.
He says he will invest heavily in locally produced products.
– But the most important thing for the town is that there is a full-range country store where you can buy what you need and that’s great.
Anders Sandén also believes that the store will be profitable.
In recent years, the previous owner of the country shop has billed just over 4 million kronor a year.
The profit after net financial items has amounted to between 140,000 and 200,000 SEK per year. The three former employees of the store made a total salary of 500,000 to just over 700,000 crowns per year, according to the company’s income statement. If Sandén gets the same finances in the business, it means a substantial reduction in income compared to the SEK 85,000 a month he earned as a municipal director.
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