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Niklas Karlsson

Politician

Niklas Karlsson is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Niklas Karlsson · نيكلاس كارلسون · ニクラス・カールッソン · 니클라스 칼손				[sources]
Alias	Niklas				[sources]
Birth date	1974-06-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Landskrona Parish				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Sweden				[sources]
Country	Sweden				[sources]
Citizenship	Sweden				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Niklas				[sources]
Last name	Karlsson				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16633140				[sources]
Position	Chair of the Committee on Defence · Member of the Committee on Defence · Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe · Riksdag (member, 2014-2018) · Riksdag (member, 2018-2022) · 2 more...				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Swedish politician (1974-)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Swedish Riksdag	2022-09-26	-

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,135

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Every Politician57,742

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Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,581

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions515,984

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: se-riksdag-609bebf76ea4aa78372f3a5251421083f445efc8 · evpo-56ab84a0-6bcd-47b3-8b66-06b658314d94

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