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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]
Political association	Swedish Social Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16633140				[sources]
Position	Chair of the Committee on Defence (2018-2019) · Member of the Committee on Defence (2018-2018) · Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2014-2019) · Riksdag (member, 2014-2018) · Riksdag (member, 2018-2022) · 4 more...				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	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 Riksdag	2018-09-24	2022-09-26
member of the Swedish Riksdag

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,016

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,648

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata335,220

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,249

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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

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