Sven Bergman


Sven Bergman is an Swedish investigative reporter/producer for the current affairs show "Uppdrag granskning" on SVT.
He works in a team with Fredrik Laurin and Joachim Dyfvermark.
The trio has specialized in global investigative journalism, and often cooperates with fellow journalists around the world.
For their stories the trio has been awarded numerous international awards, such as the ICIJ Daniel Pearl Award from Daniel Pearl Foundation, Edward R Murrow Award, Overseas Press Clubs Eric and Amy Burger Award and Prix Circom.
Together with his teampartners Sven Bergman is the only journalist who has been awarded three times with the most prestigious Swedish award: Stora journalistpriset.
Sven Bergman is a member to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ICIJ. A global network of 185 investigative journalists in more than 65 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.

Extraordinary rendition

They reported on the secret deportation of two Egyptians in what was one of the first operations known as extraordinary rendition.
The two men, Ahmed Agiza and Muhammed al-Zery, were taken from Bromma airport in Sweden in December 2001 to Egypt in a covert operation by US agents and handed over to Egyptian security services and were subsequently tortured. The story caused a major uproar in Sweden, drew international attention and was one of the first to shed light on "Extraordinary Rendition". The plane uncovered in the report as the one used in the rendition was a US registered Gulfstream V with the registration number N379P. It was found by the reporters, and their partners in the reporting like UK-reporter Stephen Grey to be part of a much larger fleet of planes used for rendition operations.
In September 2008, Bergman and his colleagues received the ICIJ Daniel Perl award for their 2006 report in National TV4 "The Illegal Cod" on the illegal fishing in the Barents Sea. and in November 2009 were appointed Environmental journalist of the year for "Pink Gold" on the sustainable farming of salmon.
In 2013, the trio started publishing a story on the state owned Swedish Telecom giant Telia Sonera. In April 2014 a one-hour documentary could expose how the company cooperated with oppressive regimes in a business region the company called "Eurasia" that included long time dictatorships like Uzbekistan and Azerbadjan. In September 2016 the first reportage on how the company also bribed their way to these markets was published which after several subsequent reports led to the resignation of the company's CEO Lars Nyberg and the board. In 2015 Telia Sonera declared that it was selling all its assets in "Eurasia" - and the loss to the biggest owner - the Swedish state - was estimated at 20 BN SEK Dagens Industry. The recipient of Telia Soneras payments for Uzbek licenses, Gulnara Karimova the daughter to the long time dictator Islam Karimov, was deposed by her father because of the international scandal following the publication. In 2013 the trio was awarded another "Guldspaden" by Swedish Investigative Editors and Reporters and with a third "Stora Journalistpriset" Stora journalistpriset for their reporting on Telia Sonera.

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