INVESTIGATION INTO THE "PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTS" SURROUNDING KREUGER’S  SUDDEN DEATH AT 
5 AVENUE VICTOR EMANUEL III, PARIS MARCH 12, 1932

Certain people have been very intent at proving that Ivar Kreuger committed suicide.  However, these sources are basing their arguments on a multitude of inconclusive and weak evidence.

  A few examples:

  The “pistol” a Browning 9 mm, which was found at the deceased man’s left side, had been purchased the day before Ivar Kreuger died by a man who signed the purchase register as Ivar Kreuger, in very clear writing.  All purchases at the gun shop Gastinne-Renette in central Paris had to be registered both with the purchaser’s name, time and date.  The purchase took place at a time, when it can without any doubt be proven that Ivar Kreuger was attending a business meeting at another location (Hotel Maurice).

Ivar Kreuger, who never registered at hotels nor bought tickets for traveling or the theatre in his own name, would be most unlikely to sign the registry at the gun shop with his name.

Besides, an excellent shot since his teens and an expert in weapons, it is quite unlikely that he would have shot himself in the heart.  Every experienced marksman knows that hitting the heart might result in a slow and painful death.  You kill yourself through a shot at the temple or through the mouth (as Hemmingway did).

The book found on Ivar Kreuger’s dresser – “The most sacred possessions” by Ilja Ehrenburg, is the story about the Swedish match king Olsson, who dies in a hotel room in Paris, creates a sinister atmosphere.  The book was published in 1931 and hints at a potential conspiracy.  Ehrenberg was one of the few Russian authors in exile with whom Stalin was in contact.

The so called Farewell Letters, which Ivar Kreuger purportedly wrote are falsifications.  The dates and contents are extremely strange.  Would Ivar Kreuger write his managing director and his favorite sister in English?

In reality, based upon reliable witnesses he was in high spirits and had recovered his strength.  (He had contracted yellow fever in his youth and had been plagued by a recurrence of symptoms in New York, but resulting only in a cold. Sonya Hennie met him on his last trip across the Atlantic Ocean and she was celebrating her Gold Medals from The OlympicGames in Lake Placid and were on her way home, via Paris. Ivar and Sonya was dancing a lot - according to Sonya herself. She later said that Ivar Kreuger had invited her to a business dinner after arriving to Paris. Sonya wanted to be a filmstar so with the owner of the contracts with Greta Garbo and the SF-team she had a lot to discuss. She accepted the invitation and exchanged contact deatails for arranging the meeting a couple of days later. 

These "facts" inicate the same as the "fact" (eye witnesses recollections)   that Sir Arthur Salter writes in his memoires. He also met Ivar Kreuger on  the last trip onboard the Ocean Liner  Ile de France. They had occationally met and came into dialogues wich touched onto subjects that really concerned the world and Ivar Kreuger was a very charming person - far from beeing some gangster dude, he was illuminated and brilliant. 

Are these hints exposing a suicidal person?

Ivar Kreuger had brought from New York three suitcases and various briefcases of evidence which he planned to present in Sweden.  The evidence would have catastrophically diminished the already strained financial situation for the banking firms of Dreyfus-Barrault in France, the Tammany Legue, Jacson Martindell and his Fiduciary Counsel, Inc. and various others in The US.  These organizations had performed illegal transactions and baisse speculations.  At this time there were more outstanding debentures circulating in the market than had ever been emitted.  This evidence was one of the many potential motives for eliminating Ivar Kreuger. 

Ivar Kreuger’s immediate family demanded that an autopsy be performed. This was prohibited by Swedish authorities and the body was hastily cremated after its arrival in Stockholm.  The autopsy was to be performed by professor Karlmark, who was overheard exclaiming, when he first performed a perfunctory examination of the body, that “this is not a suicide".

Ivar Kreuger’s dairies and personal note books were confiscated by lawyer Hugo Stenbeck (confessed later under oath).  In the burning of these documents he was assisted by appeals court judge Lindeberg.  The principals in the dismantling of the Ivar Kreuger conglomerate went under the haughty title of “The Royal Commission”.  However, the same had never been selected nor appointed by Government officials.

At the very least not by the  King of Sweden, Gustav V, who was positively partial to Ivar Kreuger and had at more than one occasion reprimanded the Swedish Ambassador in Paris not to spread malevolent rumors about Ivar Kreuger :– “throughout history Sweden’s most important financial genius”.  

There are thousands of angles as to the importance of the reconstruction of Europe after WWI, where Ivar Kreuger’s efforts to peacefully assist European as well as South American countries through low interest rate loans.  One of his most powerful opponents was Joseph Stalin.  Another person desiring to take revenge for lost business was JP Morgan.   Was the alliance of these representatives of the world’s two most powerful interests, blessed by the Pope? 

JP Morgan became the first banker of the Vatikan State, founded 1929, a couple of months before the famous crash at Wall Street on the 24 of October, the same year as Stalin seemed to have the Pontifix blessings for killing ortodox priests all over Soviet Russia.  

It is therefore easy to understand that with such powerful adversaries, the elimination of Ivar Kreuger would “help the world”.  And with bankers like Aschberg and Wallenberg as allied in Sweden the planning of the execution was possible to finance too.  

Quite recently research made by Lars Jonas Angstrom has uncovered some nebulous transactions made around March 12 1932.  Connected to these transactions was the demeaned banker Frisk (through the Bank de Credit Lyon, and Ernest Hoffman, an employee of Ivar Kreuger.  One of Stalin’s international agents – and a member of the “Cheka", was also involved.  The latter’s own murder (elimination) was subsequently confirmed by a Wallenberg henchman.  

Kreuger had many powerful friends and supporters, such as Japan’s Secretary of State, Inokai, the German Secretary of State, Papitz,  Bernard Baruch,  the PM of Canada Mr. Bennet, the Guggenheim Brothers, King Gustaf V of Sweden, PM C.G Ekman of Sweden, Aristide Briant, The Nestor of Politics in France, the Reconstrution Finance Corporation with Meyer and Dawes as principal member, Nobel Luretees like Albert Einstein and Fridtjof Nansen, the government of some 20 peace aspiring nations all of them undersigned members of the Briand Kellogg Pact - a unique document, undersigned even by The Soviet Russia, which criminalized war!  

But none of the Ivar Kreugers friends were able to prevent what happened.

The Peace Conference in Geneva in the summer 1932 was lacking one of the most important speekers - the grand financer behind the Briand Kellogg Pact was no more. The Pan European Initiative had to be withdrawn and leave the scene open for a new World War and Holocaust

In Swedish:

Kriminalpsykologiska fakta om Kreugers plötsliga död på 5 Avenue Victor Emanuel lll, Paris 12 mars 1932.

Där finns en lång räcka svaga punkter i den "bevisföring", som vissa intressen drivit, från denna dag, och som syftat till att befästa uppfattningen att Kreuger begick självmord.

Några exempel:

Pistolen, en Browning 9 mm, som hittades vid den döde Kreugers vänstra sida, inköptes dagen innan Kreuger dog, av en man som skrev in sig som Ivar Kreuger, med mycket tydlig skrift, i liggaren, på Gastinne-Renettes vapenaffär i centrala Paris och detta vid en tidpunkt då Kreuger bevisligen befann sig på annan plats (Hotel Maurice).

Att den verklige Ivar Kreuger skulle ha skrivit sitt riktiga namn i denna vapenhandels liggare är högst otroligt med tanke på att han alltid rörde sig inkognito och sällan eller aldrig uppgav sitt riktiga namn varken på hotell eller när han köpte resebiljetter.

Att en van skytt och vapenkännare skulle skjuta sig i hjärtat är dessutom otroligt. Alla erfarna skyttar vet att det kan vara en mycket smärtsam och långsam död att punktera hjärtat. Man skjuter sig i huvudet eller i munnen med en pistol.

Boken "De heligaste ägodelarna" av Ilja Ehrenburg, som hittades på Kreugers nattygsbord och som handlar om den svenske tändstickskungen Olsson, som dör på ett hotellrum i Paris, och som kom ut ett år tidigare (1931) ger en sinister antydan om en potentiell konspiration - Ehrenburg var en av de få exilryska författarna som Stalin talade med.

"Avskedsbreven", som Kreuger påståtts ha skrivit och det telegram (från en AJ till Olof Rydbeck) som anförs som "bevis" för att Kreuger var inställd på "självmord", är till dateringar och kontexter, i själva verket falsarier.

I verkligheten var han, enligt trovärdiga vittnesmål, på gott humör och full av nyvunnen styrka.
Han stod i begrepp att, med hemliga dokument i bagaget, som utgjordes av tre större väskor och ett flertal portföljer, katastrofalt förvärra den redan kritiska situationen för vissa bankirer och finansgrupperingar (Dreyfus-Barrault i Frankrike, Tammanyligan, Jacson Martindell och hans Fiduciary Counsel, Inc m.fl i USA) som uppenbarligen (med ity åtföljande domar i Paris) hade agerat kriminellt i s k blanknings-förfaranden och baissespekulationer. Detta utgjorde klart ett motiv för att röja Kreuger ur vägen. Dessutom fanns den hårda verklighetens högfinansiella mellanhavanden att beakta - bankirer blir inte alltid långlivade. (Något inte minst dagens Ryssland visar oroande tecken på.)

Den av Kreugers närmaste släktingar begärda obduktionen förbjöds och kroppen kremerades i all hast efter att ha anlänt till Stockholm.

Kreugers dagböcker och anteckningsböcker och andra domument konfiskerades och brändes av advokaten Stenbeck samman med hovrättsassessorn Lindeberg.
De ledande dekonstruktörerna av kreugerkoncernen gick under benämningen "Den Kungliga Komissionen" - den var inte officiellt sanktionerad! 

Allra minst Kungen Gustav V hade något med den att göra, tvärt om, han stod entydigt på Kreugers sida och hade vid minst ett tillfälle tillhållit minister Ehrensvärd på svenska Ambassaden i Paris för att denne spred illvilliga rykten om Kreuger - "Sveriges genom tidernas största finansman".

Det finns många (mass)psykologiska infallsvinklar på vad som stod på spel när Kreuger faktiskt stod så gott som ensam bland de Europeiska bankmännen och finansmännen när det gällde förmågan att hålla igång de allt färre fredliga och konstruktiva insatserna för återuppbyggnaden av Europa. Sålunda fick han synnerligen mäktiga motståndare och den hårdaste av dem alla var Josef Stalin. 
Men J P Morgan gick heller inte av för hackor. Den oheliga alliansen mellan dessa representanter för världens blivande två mäktigaste intressen syntes helgad av Påven själv.

Man förstår då att det kan finnas tillräckligt med krafter i omlopp som förenas i en självklar idé - Kreuger måste bort - utan att varken Stalin eller Morgan någonsin behöver ge några konkreta orders. Till sist kommer tillräckligt många "intressenter" att samfällt verka mot detta eländiga mål - tillräckligt många för att en "ensam mördare" så går till aktion, i självklar övertygelse att han gör "rätt" (jfr. mordet på Olof Palme).

Det har dessutom på senare år framkommit (via Lars Jonas Ångsröms forskning) att mystiska rörelser på olika bankkonti kunde observeras kring den 12 mars 1932. Inblandande var den av bankiren Wallenberg förnedrade bankiren Frisk, via Credit Lyon, och en av Kreugers anställda Ernest Hoffman, samt en av Stalins internationella agenter, tillika medlem av "tjeckan" - dåtidens främsta internationella mördarorganisation - som själv blev mördad kort därefter.

Inte ens mäktiga vänner, varken personer eller institutioner - Japans utrikesminister Inukai, den tyske statssekreteraren Papitz, Percy Rockefeller, Bernard Baruch, Guggenheim Brothers,  Kung Gustaf V, Statsminister C-G Ekman, Aristide Briant, The Reconstruction Finance Corporation med Meyer och Dawes som ledande namn och ett tjugotal regeringars fredsälskande majoriteter, bara för att nämna några få individer och grupperingar, lyckades göra något åt den saken.

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