Follow the money
Private suppliers in Swedish asylum reception — who billed the most?
When 163,000 people applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the state lacked in-house capacity and procured housing, care and interpretation from private actors — for billions of kronor. This page lists the largest suppliers: company, organisation number, invoiced amounts and primary source for every figure. We do not judge motives and draw no conclusions — the numbers are reported, you form your own view. Each actor's public response is included. Corrections and additions are welcome.
How to read the numbers: Amounts refer to revenue invoiced from the public sector, not after-tax profit. Being on the list does not imply wrongdoing — public procurement is the intended system. Where independent scrutiny has raised criticism, that is stated, with source.
Context
Statens granskning: mottagandet klarades — men upphandlingen kan förbättras
Riksrevisionens granskning RiR 2016:10 slår fast att Migrationsverket ordnade tak över huvudet åt alla asylsökande 2015 — för nästan fyra miljarder kronor — men rekommenderar bättre anbudsgranskning och uppföljning. Det är den officiella ramen kring alla enskilda fall nedan.
Riksrevisionen — Asylboenden — Migrationsverkets arbete med att ordna boenden (RiR 2016:10) · 2016-06-14
Marknadens storlek: ~877 miljoner till de elva största bolagen 2015
Dagens ETC:s granskning: de elva största privata asylboendebolagen fakturerade tillsammans 877 miljoner kronor från Migrationsverket 2015 och gjorde gemensamt över 100 miljoner i vinst.
Dagens ETC — Företagen som tjänar miljoner på flyktingar · 2016-09-12
Actors, sorted by amount invoiced
- 2014–2020·Interpretation·Partially established
Semantix AB
~SEK 1500m
Sweden's largest private interpretation and translation agency, with state framework agreements via Kammarkollegiet and contracts with the Migration Agency, regions and municipalities.
- 2014–2018·Asylum housing·Partially established
Hero Sverige AB
~SEK 900m
Part of the Norwegian Hero group, operated temporary and arrival accommodation across Sweden on Migration Agency contracts.
- 2014–2018·Youth care (HVB)·Partially established
Attendo (HVB for unaccompanied minors)
~SEK 600m
Sweden's largest private care group, whose HVB and supported-housing segment expanded rapidly during the reception of unaccompanied minors.
- 2013–2017·Asylum housing·Verified
Jokarjo AB (Bert Karlsson)
~SEK 500m
Operated temporary asylum accommodation for the Migration Agency, at peak 37 sites with roughly 5,000 beds.
- 2014–2019·Youth care (HVB)·Partially established
Jan Emanuel Johansson (HVB Sverige AB / Adventum Care)
~SEK 400m
Operated group homes (HVB) for unaccompanied minors on contracts with municipalities and the Migration Agency, at peak roughly thirty facilities across southern and central Sweden.
- 2015–2019·Asylum housing·Verified
Pite Havsbad
~SEK 350m
Conference and spa resort that leased premises to the Swedish Migration Agency during and after the 2015 refugee reception.
- 2014–2016·Asylum housing·Verified
Bogruppen i Östergötland AB
~SEK 57m
Norrköping-based welfare company operating asylum accommodation on Migration Agency contracts.
Method: Every figure has a primary source (annual report, procurement, Swedish National Audit Office) or an established journalistic investigation that documents its method (SVT, DN, Expressen, Corren, Dagens ETC). Actors' own responses are included or requested. Updated as new annual reports and investigations appear. No Flashback, no Nordfront, no anonymous blogs as sources.