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In the fall of 2018, billionaire sawmill billionaire Karl Hedin of Smedjebacken was arrested on suspicion of being a serious hunting crime. It was suspected that he had shot a wolf and that a wolf had burned him in his sawmill on the outskirts of Norberg.
Karl Hedin, 70, has repeatedly denied the crime. After a month he was released, and several of the suspicions were canceled. It is still suspected that he chased the wolf without shooting any animal and that he transferred to another person a poison that would be used to prepare a wolf for a wolf.
The investigation was hit by several setbacks. The secret police witness withdrew his information and said he found everything he said about the alleged wolf hunt.
First, a recorded phone call was said to show that Hedin and others shot a wolf, but after listening to the recording himself, the prosecutor changed his mind and withdrew that claim.
Prosecution in brief
Environmental prosecutor Lars Magnusson is leading the preliminary investigation against Karl Hedin and other suspects.
– The remaining suspicion is the incident on October 26, 2018, when Karl Hedin was arrested and detained. Suspicion is that he has chased the wolf, Lars Magnusson has told Expressen.
On April 22, Magnusson told Today’s Industry that he expects to press charges in a few weeks and that there will likely be a trial this fall.
Karl Hedin tells the newspaper that he appreciates a prosecution for the cleanup, and he is confident that he will be released.
– A condition for this to happen is that this case will be public and that the trial will be public. It should not be closed doors, the public must find out what has been done and be able to make a correct evaluation, he says.
“They have ruined some years of my life”
Karl Hedin is Chairman of the forestry group Karl Hedin AB, which has approximately 1,000 employees and sales of SEK 4.6 billion in 2018, according to Dagens Industri.
He tells the newspaper how the crime suspects have affected him in the role of industrialist.
– It is clear that I spend a lot of time trying to understand and think about this a lot, when otherwise I would think about industrial issues. It has ruined a couple of years of my life, ”Karl Hedin tells Today’s Industry.
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