Nobody Lost Money

Allra's ex-VD tells TV4 nobody lost money. Majken has a receipt from Svea hovrätt. Robbe has already bought the T-shirt.

Reel 8 of 8 33 seconds

Grisch. To look rich. On somebody else's pension.

The reel’s line, spoken by a minifigure. What was really said is below.

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What really happened

On 22 July 2021 Svea hovrätt convicted Alexander Ernstberger, VD of the pension company Allra, of mutbrott and trolöshet mot huvudman: six years in prison and a ten-year näringsförbud. The convicted were ordered to pay Pensionsmyndigheten about 170 million kronor in damages, plus interest from 2012.
Stockholms tingsrätt had acquitted all four defendants on 31 January 2020. On 28 December 2021 Högsta domstolen refused leave to appeal, so the hovrätt judgment is final.
Released on parole in May 2025, he told TV4 Nyhetsmorgon on 31 May 2025: "Det är ingen som har förlorat pengar" ("Nobody has lost any money"), and "Tingsrätten sa att det var rätt. Hovrätten sa att det var fel." ("The district court said it was right. The court of appeal said it was wrong.")
In the same interview he was shown fan merch reading "Alla begår väl ekobrott ibland?" ("Everybody commits a financial crime now and then?") and answered: "Men jag har ju inte gjort det hittills." ("But I haven't done one so far.")
On TikTok teenagers made him an icon of "grisch", the look of being well off (Språkrådet's new words of 2024); he calls himself a role model for grisch culture.
Fikapodden, its hosts and the studio are ours. So are the T-shirt purchase, the penalty shootout, the steaming chair and Majken's last line. Ernstberger says only his own words from TV4.

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The script

ROBBE: (starstruck, holding up a plain white T-shirt) Alexander. De grisch icon. I have bought de merch.

MAJKEN: (reading the T-shirt, flat) Alla begår väl ekobrott ibland.

ERNSTBERGER: (smooth, smiling) Men I have ju not done it. So far.

MAJKEN: (pulls a long till receipt from her binder) Svea hovrätt, twenty twenty-one. Six years.

ROBBE: (nodding) Six years. Dat is a pivot.

ERNSTBERGER: (calm, as the red armchair starts to glow and steam) It is nobody who has lost money.

MAJKEN: (a second receipt) Skadestånd. Hundred seventy million. Plus ränta.

ERNSTBERGER: (calm, the chair steaming) Tingsrätten said it was right. Hovrätten said it was wrong.

ROBBE: (leaning in) One-one. Penalty shootout, ja?

MAJKEN: (flat) Högsta domstolen said: nej tack.

MAJKEN: (straight to camera) Grisch. To look rich. On somebody else’s pension.

(Robbe quietly folds the T-shirt away and presses the red JINGEL button.)