The director of Valo Sweden does not swallow Henriksson’s words about one nicotine pouch company

Strengberg’s Habit Factory is not the only nicotine pouch company operating in Finland. In addition to that, at least Valo Sweden operates in Finland.

MEP Anna-Maja Henriksson is however told HS that he was only aware of the first Strengbergs Habit Factory in his hometown Pietarsaari.

CEO of Valo Sweden Timo Nurminen views the claim of the former chairman of Rkp with skepticism.

“In my opinion, it is not only a naive but also a lie for him to claim that he only knew about one Finnish nicotine pouch company.”

Nurminen also talked about it earlier For a Democrat.

Lawn says that he was in contact with Henriksson’s special assistant at the end of 2023 Give it to Anna Abrahamsson and having introduced himself as the CEO of Finnish Valo Sweden.

In addition, Valo Sweden has participated in the official opinion round of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (STM). According to Nurminen, it is very clear from the company’s statement that Valo Sweden operates equally in Finland.

“In my opinion, Henriksson is now trying to hide behind the excuse that he only knew about one Finnish nicotine bag company.”

Henriksson also denied to Demokraat that he knew about the existence of Valo Sweden.

“I have believed that Strengbergs has been the only company that has had production in Finland. And as I understand it, this is exactly the situation. I hadn’t heard of the light,” he told the magazine in his text message reply.

Lawn says that he filed a criminal report about special assistant Abrahamsson in the police’s online service.

Nurminen hopes the police will investigate why only Strengbergs Habit Factory flavors were approved for the nicotine pouch bill. He says he wants to know if there has been a crime possibly committed in the performance of his duties.

The nicotine bag controversy has also gathered around Abrahamsson, because it was he who brought the list of nicotine bag flavors to the special assistants’ consultation, which the Rkp wanted to be added to the list of permitted flavors. The list featured several flavors made by Strengbergs Habit Factory.

Nurmista is now interested in whether there was an influencer above Abrahamsson who asked Abrahamsson to take the flavor list to the government.

“During the police investigation, it becomes clear who made the decisions and when, and who ordered who to do what.”

Lawn filed a criminal complaint on October 16. He explains that he only reported Abrahamsson because Henriksson’s role in the case was still unclear at the time.

“At this point, Henriksson denied knowing anything about the matter.”

However, in an interview with HS on October 16, Henriksson admitted that he had put Strengbergs Habit Factory’s “adult tastes” into law. He said that he spoke with the company’s CEO on the phone in the fall of 2023.

“Henriksson’s actions have never seemed to be open and honest in this matter,” says Nurminen.

Valo Sweden until a year ago, was planning to establish a factory producing nicotine pouches in Vaasa. According to Nurminen, this was exactly the reason why he contacted Abrahamsson at the end of 2023.

“I wanted to know which direction the law is going. As a businessman, you have to ask about such things, because the profitability of investments depends on how they are treated at the level of the law.”

According to Nurminen, the Vaasa factory will not come to fruition if the law regarding nicotine pouches continues in its current form.

“Now we are only allowing two flavors and not allowing sales to consumers in other EU countries. No factory will be able to be commercially profitable if such legislation comes into being.”