Tomas Jörgen Fischer (1 December 1940 – 15 August 2022) was a Swedish book publisher and businessman.

Biography

Fischer was born in Härnösand, and later grew up in

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. He began to work with financier

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. With Penser, they both had worked as stockbrokers at the Carnegie Investment Bank. In 1983, Fischer established his own business which was called Fischer & Partners, which in 2001 was sold to the village Invik. Fischer had taken the enterprise for the

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Skanditek. He had bought the book publishing company Author's Publishing House, which he had given the new name Fischer & Co. Publishing House. It was later sold to Lind & Co. Fischer had worked with Sven Philip-Sörensen, in which they've both been involved at the Confidencen. In the 1980s, he was suspected of being involved in an investigation of the

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of politician and statesman

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. It had happened with his appearing to fund

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's investigation about the assassination. Fischer resided in Saint Barthélemy in 1994. He served as an honorary member of the student society

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and also the Stockholms nation. Fischer was honored with the medal Ordre national du Mérite. In 2010, he was implicated in a debate of the

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, which was about his residing place. The government agency had asserted that Fischer lived in Sweden. He was imposed with over 100 million SEK, in which there was a case that was taken to the

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. Fischer died in August 2022, having drowned next to his home in Saint Barthélemy, at the age of 81.

References

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