00:00A Stockholm court on Thursday wrapped up hearings in the trial of two former oil executives accused of a complicity
00:06in war crimes over their business dealings during Sudan's second civil war, with the ruling expected in December.
00:13The trial, which is the longest ever in Sweden, opened in September 2023 after more than a decade of investigations
00:20that resulted in an 80,000-page report.
00:24Ian Landin of Sweden and the Swiss national Alec Schneider are accused of asking Sudan's government to make its military
00:32responsible for security at a London oil exploration field.
00:36This resulted in aerial bombings and killings of civilians and burning of entire villages.
00:42Landin was chief executive of his family's farm, now called Oron Energy, from 1998 to 2002.
00:48Schneider was vice president at the time, in March the public prosecutors called for a 10-year prison sentence for
00:55London and six years for Schneider.
00:57The prosecutors argue that after London oil struck oil in 1999 at the Block 5A field in what is now
01:05South Sudan,
01:06the Sudanese military with an allied militia led military operations to take control of the area.
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