The scandal of Fingerprint Cards escalates. Several members of the company’s management and board are well known for Ny Teknik’s readers.
new technologies already reported the FPC president Johan Carlstrom under investigation for gross insider abuse.
Last Tuesday armed police into the premises of the company’s Gothenburg office and seized computers , insider logbook and interrogated staff. Economic Crimes sinfulness, EBM, I suspect that even a former member of the Board has committed to skyld rough insider crime.
Yesterday declared Johan Carlstrom he is innocent. While the former member denies crime.
Since last Thursday’s CTO Jörgen Lantto acting president. Lantto is known for several of New Technique reader. He was previously chief technology officer of ST-Ericsson.
The company’s Chairman Urban Fagerstedt is a well-known figure in New Technology. He’s R & D manager for Huawei in Sweden for several years, but was previously head of Ericsson’s entire development of radio systems.
Urban Fagerstedt are very saddened by what has happened.
– I hope and believe that both are innocent. But I have no information, he says to Dagens Industri.
In Ny Teknik’s sister magazine Business World’s latest issue, the reporter Jonas Elofsson written an article entitled “Sticky business”. There, he says that the board member Tord Wingren bought 10,000 shares Fingerprint seven trading days prior to a press release, in which a real breakthrough presented. It says that the finger print reader would begin to be used in Huawei’s advanced mobile model. Dagens Industri said Tord Wingren that he was not aware of this.
“In other words, the Board held in Fingerprint Cards are not informed that the biggest breakthrough in the company’s history was imminent. Alternatively Wingren had not attended the meetings as this may have been discussed, “writes Jonas Elofsson.
Tord Wingren is also well known for the New Technique readers.
He was one of the pioneers who developed Ericsson’s first mobile phone, and the initiator of the Ericsson platform company EMP in Lund and was the company’s first President 2001 after a merger with ST Microelectronics and the company was named ST-Ericsson. Since last year, Ericsson is once again the main owner.
Tord Wingren took over as head of the Huawei’s platform company in Lund spring 2012, a business that started two years ago.
He has also worked as Head of Europe for Samsung, the chief operating position a Swedish’ve had in the Korean electronics giant. Wingren was also a founding wlan company Nanoradio.
Tord Wingren on the board of several small Swedish development company, including as chairman in Anyfi Networks. He also serves on the board of Mobill, engaged in mobile commerce, Previously he was a director of Swedish zimpl, a company that filed for bankruptcy last spring because they failed to attract sufficient risk capital, which Sydsvenskan reported.
– I am not speaking for the investigations underway regarding insider transactions, writes Tord Wingren, commenting on New Technology and continues:
– I can only say that it is a fantastic company, with lots of extremely competent individuals, which has nothing to these charges to make. Obviously, any type of criminal insider trading punished, but it is deeply regrettable that the entire company caught up in this and I am saddened that the company can not be reflected on the basis of qualities, products and strengths that it possesses. I think we should be proud that the Swedish technology can dominate on a global market, writes Wingren.
New Technology have searched Urban Fagerstedt , but failed to reach him.
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