Joachim Dyfvermark (born September 17, 1968) is a Swedish investigative reporter/producer working for the current affairs program Uppdrag granskning broadcast on Sveriges Television.
Joachim Dyfvermark (born September 17, 1968) is a Swedish investigative reporter/producer working for the current affairs program Uppdrag granskning broadcast on Sveriges Television.
Joachim Dyfvermark has been working as a journalist since 1996. He´s currently working as producer at Sweden’s main investigative program "Uppdrag granskning" at SVT - Swedish Television. [1]
During the period 2000-2013 he formed an investigative team with Sven Bergman and Fredrik Laurin. [2] From 2000-2006 the team worked for Swedish TV4:s investigative program "Kalla fakta", and from September 2006 on "Uppdrag granskning" at SVT - Swedish Television. From 2018 Dyfvermark works in team with Axel Gordh Humlesjö and Linda Kakuli Larsson, still at "Uppdrag granskning"/SVT.
Joachim Dyfvermark has also been working as a news reporter on Swedish TV4 (1996-1997) and as a show host for TV4's investigative programme "Kalla fakta" (2000). [3]
He lectures occasionally on investigative journalism and story telling at international journalist conferences and several universities in Sweden.
Joachim Dyfvermark is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ICIJ. [4]
In 2005 the team were rewarded with a number of awards, among them awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, RTNDA:s Edward R Murrow award and the Stora journalistpriset (Swedish equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize) as well as the Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors award "Guldspaden" for their reporting [5] on the secret deportation of two Egyptians in what was one of the first operations known as "Extraordinary rendition".
The two men, Ahmed Agiza and Muhammed Al Zery, were taken from Bromma airport in Sweden in December 2001 to Egypt in a covert operation by US agents and handed over to Egyptian security services and were subsequently tortured. The story caused a major uproar in Sweden, drew international attention and was one of the first to shed light on "Extraordinary Rendition". The report could uncover that the aircraft used in the rendition was a US registered Gulfstream V with the registration number N379P. [6] [7] Together with the UK-reporter Stephen Grey [8] the team disclosed that N379P was a part of a much larger fleet of CIA planes used for rendition operations. [9]
Joachim Dyfvermark, and his co-producers Bergman & Laurin, also received several awards, among them a second "Stora Journalistpriset", for their 2007 report [10] on the bribery in the sale of the Swedish jet-fighter Gripen to the Czech Republic, Hungary and South Africa.
In September 2008, they received the ICIJ Daniel Perl award [11] for their 2006 report in National TV4: [12] "The Illegal Cod", a story about the illegal fishing in the Barents Sea. [13] And in November 2009 they were appointed Environmental journalist of the year [14] for "Pink Gold" on the unsustainable farming of salmon.
In 2012 the trio started publishing a number of stories on the state-owned Swedish telecom giant Telia Sonera. The first documentary, aired in April 2012, could expose how the company cooperated with oppressive regimes in the business region "Eurasia", that included longtime dictatorships like Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. Telia Sonera helped the regimes to monitor journalists, political opposition and democratic activists. In September 2012 the first reportage on how the company also bribed their way to these markets was published, which after several subsequent reports led to the resignation of many top official, among them the company’s CEO Lars Nyberg (2013) and the board. In 2015 Telia Sonera declared that they were selling all its assets in "Eurasia". The recipient of Telia Soneras payments for Uzbek licenses, Gulnara Karimova - the daughter to the longtime dictator Islam Karimov - was deposed by her father because of the international scandal following the publication. In 2013 the trio was awarded another "Guldspaden" by Swedish Investigative Editors and Reporters and with a third Stora journalistpriset for their reporting on Telia Sonera.
In 2016, Joachim Dyfvermark and Sven Bergman worked on the Panama Papers, covering Sweden and Island. The reporting led to the resignation of the Icelandic Prime minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, but also multiple investigations regarding the Nordic bank Nordea. Dyfvermark & Bergman were awarded with Prix Europa in 2016 for their story, and nominated to Emmy Awards in 2017.
In 2019, Joachim Dyfvermark published an investigation together with Axel Gord Humlesjö, Linda Lanrsson Kakuli and Per Agerman, revealing massive suspected money laundering in Swedbanks business in the Baltic states. The four-part series led to a number of police investigations in several countries, and a large part of the top officials in Swedbank were dismissed. The team was awarded Stora journalistpriset for their reporting on Swedbank, and was nominated to Emmy Awards in 2020. [15]
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