From 1991 to 2014, over a period spanning twenty-three years, the following activities were carried out by Bahman Azadfar and the team operating under his management:
1. Engaging via telephone, correspondence, and in person with politicians and government agencies capable of playing a role in halting money laundering.
2. Producing educational pamphlets regarding the dangers of money laundering and the methods employed by criminals.
3. Producing professional educational videos, hosting them on a dedicated website, and distributing the video links to politicians and the Swedish bureaucracy. It should be noted that these videos were produced before the existence of Artificial Intelligence capable of generating images and videos. Swedish artists created all necessary visuals, while voice recording and editing were handled by professional human talent. Consequently, producing each video was a highly costly endeavour.
4. Bahman Azadfar recruited several individuals, including a freelance journalist, to form an investigative team tasked with monitoring the progress of anti-money laundering efforts within the system. It was this very team that uncovered a major structural deception, details of which can be found in Anatomy of the Structural Deception.
5. Establishing a website – the only platform in Sweden at the time that provided the public with credible information regarding money laundering and its associated risks.
6. Launching anti-money laundering campaigns across various Swedish cities. These campaigns were initiated and managed by trained young volunteers. [Watch a video from an anti-money laundering campaign held in Gothenburg in 2013.]
7. Printing informational brochures and posters regarding money laundering and its dangers, which were displayed and distributed during the anti-money laundering campaigns.
8. Collecting signatures from the public to petition for the prohibition and criminalisation of money laundering.
9. Authoring, printing, and distributing a book entitled “En rapport till samhället om hur Sverige blev penningtvättens paradis” (A Report to Society on How Sweden Became a Money Laundering Haven) by Bahman Azadfar. This book was posted to every member of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) to urge them to take action.
10. Launching a final campaign by Bahman Azadfar in Stockholm in September 2014. A video documenting this campaign, based on archival photographs from those days, can be viewed here.
The Ultimate Outcome of These Activities:
A. For Sweden: The disregard of political and bureaucratic authorities regarding the significance and role of money laundering in the expansion of criminal gang activities. The result of this negligence is the unchecked surge of organised crime across Sweden.
B. For Bahman Azadfar: His arrest on 10th September 2014 and his subsequent commitment to a psychiatric hospital. A detailed account of this can be read here or listened to here.