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Erik Palm

Independent
Freelance Journalist
Erik Palm is an award-winning Investigative journalist and author. He holds a position as lecturer in journalism at Stockholm University. He was researcher and reporter on the SVT documentaries about the secret reason for the extinction of ”the last eel” that was finalist for multiple national awards. He has co-written and investigative portrait of H&M owner Stefan Persson and the winning H&M culture which also has been described as cult-like with exaggerated control of the staff in the book "The Big Boss”. He was researcher in an investigative SVT-project about IKEA. Erik found the trust in Liechtenstein that controls the company. The Interogo trust was a secret for decades that many international investigative teams had failed to reveal. The film was IRE awards finalist. He has investigated the cocaine trafficking and the violence around it, "Cocaine wars", in Sweden and Belgium for TV4 with De Tijd and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project OCCRP, before the Encro-chat revealed the increased cocaine trade in EU.