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Björn Wiechel

Politician

Björn Wiechel 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	Björn Wiechel · بچورن ويتشيل				[sources]
Alias	Bjorn Wiechel · Björn				[sources]
Birth date	1983-12-13				[sources]
Place of birth	Sigtuna church parish				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Sweden				[sources]
Country	Sweden				[sources]
Citizenship	Sweden				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Björn				[sources]
Last name	Wiechel				[sources]
Political association	Swedish Social Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q20156222				[sources]
Position	Member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs (2014-2017) · Riksdag (member, 2014-2016) · Riksdag (member, 2014-2018) · Riksdag (member, 2018-2018) · Riksdag (member, 2018-2022) · 9 more...				[sources]
Education	Umeå University (2005-2009)				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

politician and Member of the parliament of Sweden

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Riksdag	2014-09-29	2016-09-30
Member of the Riksdag

Data sources

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 Persons316,647

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,936

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata343,483

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: se-riksdag-36ce6189a9dbe12742dd93d274d538e4c1adc800 · evpo-dde11845-a788-4505-949f-cc6c17100d06

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