Mikael Ljungman

Mikael Ljungman
Born November 25, 1963
Nationality Swedish
Education Lawyer, Political Scientist
Occupation Inventor
Religion Christianity
Children 5

Mikael Ljungman (born November 25, 1963) is a Swedish lawyer, businessman and inventor[1] working with law, political science and different developing and social impacts projects.[2] He is currently involved in political activities and advocating strategic governance & investments in water, air & human rights, #wash. He is also very active in matters concerning education, environment, poverty and equal rights.[3][4]

Education

Mikael Ljungman have a Maters of LAWS (LL.M.) at Stockholm University, diploma thesis in criminal law enforcement and criminal policy.[5]

Political contributions

Ljungman was Christian Democrats parliamentary candidate in the Swedish elections 2014 as well as their representative in the municipal elections and county council elections.[5] Ljungman has formally endorsed and made campaign contributions to Antonio Villaraigosa's Antonio R. Villaraigosa for Mayor 2009.[6] Ljungman has also made campaign contributions to Hillary Rodham Clinton's[7] HillPac organization and John Yarmuth's[8] YARMUTH FOR CONGRESS.[9]

Patent applications

In 2006, Ljungman applied for UK and US patents for a method of mobile advertising by which advertisements are sent to mobile communication devices to be shown when triggered[10] and for a method of selectively delivering free and paid-for multimedia content to such devices.[11] According to the WIPO's Preliminary Report on Patentability, Ljungman's first patent claims novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability[12] and latter patent claims lack either novelty or an inventive step but have industrial applicability.[1] As of December 2013, three patent applications filed in Ljungman's name in 2006 and 2007 are still active, but none have yet been granted.

Media Power Inc

Media Power Inc[13] was a tech company that developed consumer and business products based on Augmented Reality technology (AR) and other advanced systems, co-founded by Ljungman in partnership with Carl Freer. Media Power had two divisions offering a range of hi-tech goods and marketing services: Magitech and GetFugu.com. A breifly revived Gizmondo was a client to Media Power Inc.[14] In May 2008, a partnership was announced where Media Power would donate $5M over five years to Georgia Tech to further Augmented Reality research.[15]

Association with Gizmondo

Ljungman's company 3P PreForm Marketing and Research[16] performed research and development work for Gizmondo Europe since 2003[17] and was paid $7.6 million.[18] After Gizmondo Europe's bankruptcy in early 2006, the liquidators had outstanding questions about Ljungman and his company's involvement with Gizmondo Europe Ltd; they were perfectly satisfied with Ljungman's answers.[16] In May 2008, Carl Freer bought Gizmondo Europe's intellectual property rights.[19] Gizmondo console and its augmented reality functionality aroused the interest of technical universities.[20][21] Ljungman worked with Freer on the relaunch of the Gizmondo, with Freer calling him his "co-pilot".[16] He traveled to China in early 2008 to arrange manufacturing,[22] a contract purported to be worth $300M.[16] The relaunch of Gizmondo never eventuated.[23]

Conviction for false accounting

Ljungman was arrested on October 19, 2004, but released shortly thereafter pending trial.[24] Ljungman was found guilty of false accounting and tax evasion on January 26, 2009. Ljungman initially received a two-year prison sentence;[25] which was reduced to 10 months on appeal after the tax evasion charges were dismissed. The sentence included disqualification from running a company in Sweden for five years, which was reduced to three years starting from 2007 after the successful appeal.[26] Ljungman's appeal went to the supreme court[27] where it was denied[27] and he was imprisoned in late April 2009.[28]

IT Factory scandal

In December 2008 Danish company IT Factory went bankrupt revealing systematic financial fraud. Ljungman was linked to IT Factory's CEO Stein Bagger,[29] who went missing four days before the company's collapse was publicly announced.[30] Bagger fled from Dubai to the United States and eventually surrendered to police in Los Angeles, where he was found to have Ljungman's car and to have used his credit card.

On January 9, 2009, the Deputy Attorney in charge of fraud cases in Denmark announced that they wanted to question Ljungman.[31] Danish police sent out an arrest warrant for Ljungman via Interpol. He was arrested by Swedish police in Norrköping where he had just started his ten month sentence in an open prison and was extradited to Denmark on 27 July 2009.[32][33][34]

Danish media claimed that the Swedish police had found a fake leasing contract linking IT Factory with Xiop, a Swedish company where Ljungman had worked as Business Developer. This specific claim was denied by the Swedish prosecutor Yngve Rydberg.[31] Yngve Rydberg also said at the time there was no suspicion of Ljungman being involved in the crimes being investigated in Sweden.[35] On the first day of his trial Stein Bagger named Ljungman as his accomplice.[36]

On 26 March 2010, Ljungman was convicted of involvement in the IT Factory fraud in Denmark,[37] and was released under supervision in September 2013 after serving slightly less than half of a seven year sentence.[38]

Ljungman denied involvement in Stein Bagger's fraud and appealed his sentence,[39] however as of the time of his supervised release, no successful appeal had been completed. Ljungman claimed he was interested in IT Factory's software PaaS,[40] that he and Media Power tried to buy when IT Factory was liquidated.[27] The software was instead sold to a German company.[41]

In December 2012, Danish authorities recovered a portion of the money stolen from IT Factory from accounts in Hong Kong and Jersey belonging to Mikael Ljungman[42]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO".
  2. ↑ "Mikael Ljungman kommer ud af faengslet".
  3. ↑ "Twitter Profile of Mikael Ljungman".
  4. ↑ "ISIS – Kris och verklighet by Mikael Ljungman".
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Ballot Papers Election 2014".
  6. ↑ "Antonio R. Villaraigosa for Mayor 2009".
  7. ↑ "Mikael Ljungman Political Campaign Contributions".
  8. ↑ "YARMUTH FOR CONGRESS".
  9. ↑ "Yarmoth Congress Campaign site".
  10. ↑ "Ljungman et al., System and method for advertising on remote devices".
  11. ↑ "Ljungman et al., System for submitting and delivering content events to remote devices".
  12. ↑ "Advertising on remote devices - WIPO".
  13. ↑ Media Power, old website; see "Bios"
  14. ↑ Media Power Inc - Clients
  15. ↑ "Georgia Tech lands $5M to develop Augmented Reality". Atlanta Business Chronicle (American City Business Journals). 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "Carl Freer: Gizmondo arrives in late 2008".
  17. ↑ Olle Blomkvist (December 22, 2005). "Gizmondos svenska partner åtalas". Realtid.se.
  18. ↑ "TIGER TELEMATICS INC - TGTL Quarterly Report (10-Q)".
  19. ↑ "Gizmondo Liquidators Wishes Carl Freer Good Speed".
  20. ↑ "CALEB ON THE GIZMONDO (2006)".
  21. ↑ "AR Game Design Studio".
  22. ↑ "Omskrivet företag satsar på nytt".
  23. ↑ "The Android gaming platform that never was: Gizmondo 2". 2011-01-16.
  24. ↑ "1,6 miljarder kroner försvann från bolaget - på ett halvår".
  25. ↑ Johansson, Sara (2009-01-26). "Mikael Ljungman fick fängelse" (in Swedish). Realtid.se. Retrieved 2009-01-29. I dag kom domen mot Carl Freers kompanjon Mikael Ljungman. Han fick 10 månaders fängelse och näringsförbud.
  26. ↑ "Mikael Ljungman fick fängelse".
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Johansson, Sara (2009-02-26). "Mikael Ljungman överklagar hovrättens dom" (in Swedish). Realtid.se. Åklagaren har inte kunnat styrka brottet. Det menar Mikael Ljungmans advokat Leif Gustafsson.
  28. ↑ Bendtsen, Simon (2009-04-27). "Baggers partner anholdt" (in Danish). Business dk. "Jeg tror, at han netop var startet med at afsone de 10 måneder. Han er så nu blevet overført til arresten, og så må vi se, hvornår vi kan få ham udleveret til Danmark," siger vicestatsadvokat Per Justesen.
  29. ↑ "Svensk forretningsmand hjalp Stein Bagger i USA".
  30. ↑ Johansson, Sara (2009-03-17). "Dansk polis är beredda att efterlysa Ljungman" (in Swedish). Realtid.se. Den danska polisen har ännu inte lyckats förhöra Mikael Ljungman, som misstänks vara delaktig i Stein Bagger-härvan.
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 "Dansk polis vill förhöra Mikael Ljungman".
  32. ↑ Erik Wiman (2009-03-31). "Den svenske företagaren och miljonären Mikael Ljungman gäckar polisen". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 2013-11-18.
  33. ↑ Af Simon Bendtsen 27. april 2009, 12:03. "Baggers partner anholdt - Digital". Berlingske. Retrieved 2013-11-18.
  34. ↑ "Bagger's partner pleads not guilty". Copenhagen Post. 2009-07-28.
  35. ↑ "Åklagare gjorde razzia hos Mikael Ljungman-bolag".
  36. ↑ "Bagger points finger at Swedish partner". Copenhagen Post. 2009-06-10.
  37. ↑ "Ljungman anker dommen på seks års fængsel". Fyenske. 2010-03-26.
  38. ↑ "Bagger-makker kommer ud af fængslet". Berlingske. 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
  39. ↑ "Ljungman anker dommen pl' seks l'rs fc'ngsel". Fyens Stiftstidende. Retrieved 2013-11-18.
  40. ↑ Johansson, Sara (2009-01-26). "Vi funderar på att överklaga domen" (in Swedish). Realtid.se. Utredningen stödjer helt enkelt inte att han har gjort de brott som åklagaren påstår.
  41. ↑ "Tysk køber af IT Factorys software. Mikael Ljungman fik nej".
  42. ↑ "Stolen millions confiscated from Bagger accomplice". Copenhagen Post. 2.3 million kroner, hidden by Mikael Ljungman in accounts in Jersey and Hong Kong, are set to return to Denmark

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