Gunnar Lindstedt, the journalist who exposed the Trustor affair — one of Sweden's most notorious financial scandals — is sharply criticizing Netflix's new documentary about the case. Speaking to SVT, Lindstedt says he is deeply critical of the production's handling of its central figure, Thomas Jisander.
His objection centers on a specific omission: according to Lindstedt, the documentary does not report which crimes Jisander was actually convicted of. 'Varför gullar man med brottslingar?' — why coddle criminals? — he asks in the SVT interview, framing the omission as a failure of accountability rather than a mere editorial choice.
The dispute lands in the middle of an ongoing debate about true-crime storytelling on streaming platforms: when the reporter who broke the original story says the dramatized retelling sanitizes court-established facts, it raises questions about who controls the historical record when entertainment value and journalistic rigor pull in different directions.