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Every case set in what is now Sweden, best-known first. Cities, states and old kingdoms count under the country that holds them today.

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Cases in Sweden

Best-known first. Each card opens the full cited case.

Cases
5
Years
1677 to 2018
Region
Europe
Main subjects
Oil and natural resources, Literature and art, Foundations, States and spies
Updated
30 October 2026
AI illustration: Manuscripts and a laptop on a desk in a Stockholm flat, 20042004 · StockholmStieg Larsson's partner of 30 years got nothing from the Millennium fortune because they never marriedStieg Larsson was a Swedish journalist who investigated far-right groups for the magazine Expo. He died of a heart attack at 50, before any of his three crime novels, the Millennium trilogy, was published.dagensps.se and 2 moreIngvar Kamprad: Ingvar Kamprad Haparanda June 20102018 · Småland, SwedenIngvar Kamprad put IKEA into a Dutch foundation in 1982 that The Economist called the world's richest charity and one of its least generousKamprad founded IKEA in 1943. In 1982, with lawyer Linnea Walsh, he set up the Stichting INGKA Foundation in the Netherlands, with the stated purpose of promoting innovation in architecture and interior design.The Economist and 3 moreRaoul Wallenberg Schutzpass 29. September 1944: Raoul Wallenberg protective passport (Schutzpass), dated 29 September 1944, for Josefa Frankel, née Tauszig, signed by Carl Ivan Dan1947 · Budapest, Hungary; Moscow, Russia; Stockholm, SwedenThe Soviets said Raoul Wallenberg died in a Moscow prison in 1947; Sweden's tax agency declared him dead in 2016, and a Moscow court refused his family the prison recordsRaoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in 1944. He issued protective passes and is credited with helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust. In 1945 the Red Army arrested him.CBS News and 2 moreLudvig Nobel: Ludvig Nobel1888 · Baku, Azerbaijan; St Petersburg, Russia; Stockholm, SwedenThe Nobel brothers built Russia's largest oil company in Baku; Ludvig's son fled the Bolsheviks disguised as a peasant and sold half the shares to Standard OilIn 1879 Ludvig, Robert and Alfred Nobel and partners formed Branobel with 3 million roubles of capital. Ludvig died in Cannes in 1888, and his son Emanuel took charge. Emanuel was a Russian citizen.aapg.org and 4 moreFat-Mats (1719, Martin Fur Copper Mine, Falun, Sweden): Fat-Mats (from Leyel, 1722 & Wiman, 1941) This is the story of Fat-Mats. It in no way counts as a story about fossils, b1677 · Falun, Dalarna, SwedenA Falun copper miner vanished in 1677, his body came out of the mine 42 years later, his old fiancée named him, and he was put on showMats Israelsson, from Boda in Svärdsjö, worked in the Falun copper mine. In 1676 or 1677 he went down to light a fire used in the mining work and did not come back. On 2 December 1719 miners found a body in a long-abandoned shaft.sok.riksarkivet.se and 2 more