[SKRIVA] Ahrvid Engholms brottsliga bana

From: gittan svensson <heligabirgitta@xxxxxxxxx>
To: skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:04:26 +0200
 I filen som Hans Persson länkade till hittade jag faktiskt en redogörelse
för just det som Ahrvid Engholm har utelämnat, nämligen sin bakgrund som
straffad brottsling. Fast det finns mycket mer i den filen också! Det är på
engelska av någon anledning men det ges en fyllig bakgrund till hela
affären som Ahrvid Engholm skrev om och han har bara skrivit om en liten
bit, visar det sig för det var många olika bråk han var inblandad i.

Här är redogjörelsen men det verkar som om raderna blir konstiga när man
klipper från PDF-filen, så det får ni stå ut med:



"Engholm was employed as managing editor of
*Nova science fiction*

during the period from late 1984 through 1986; however for several reasons,
including both the

worsening feuds, which precluded his cooperation with others employed by the
company, and the

fact that sales of LFP publications were stagnating and that the company was
in financial trouble,

Engholm’s employment was terminated by the beginning of 1987. In the fall of
1987, Anders Bellis

devoted his fan column in
*Nova science fiction *(in the much delayed #1 1987) to a discussion of the

animosity and feuds then dominating Swedish fandom.

Ahrvid Engholm had never returned his set of keys to the LFP offices; it now
became

evident that he still both retained and used them, for at some point after
this magazine issue had

been delivered from the printers, but before it had been mailed to
subscribers, Engholm visited

the offices, read the magazine, took offense at Bellis’ column, and removed
the entire print run of

the magazine issue (some 2,000 copies) from its place in the LFP storage
room. When contacted

by the company, Engholm declared that he refused to return the magazine
unless Bellis’ column

was torn out of all copies and an apology to Engholm instead printed and
sent out with the issue.

LFP refused to submit to this demand and instead both contacted the police
and ordered a reprint

of the issue from the printers. A month later, the issue was finally mailed
to subscribers; by this

time, a new print run had been delivered and Engholm had as well returned
the earlier copies

after being charged to do so by the police. (Incidentally, it was also at
the LFP offices, where

SEFF administrator Maths Claesson was employed, that Engholm in Claesson’s
desk drawer

found the votes given in the SEFF campaign and photocopied them, thus
gaining the ”proof” of

the proxy votes he has referred to since.)

The incident of the removed print run of
*Nova science fiction *led to several court cases

during the years 1988 through 1993. In 1988, Engholm was first sentenced in
criminal

proceedings to a suspended sentence for arbitrary conduct in removing the
magazine issue from

its proper storage space; later the same year, he was sentenced in a civil
case brought by LFP to

reimburse the company for the cost of reprinting the magazine issue.
Engholm, in rebuttal, first

tried to bring suit for defamation of character against the publishers of
*Nova science fiction*; this

case, however, was dismissed by the prosecutor’s office. He then sued LFP,
Inc., John-Henri

Holmberg and Per Insulander in civil court, claiming not to have been paid
for the work he had

performed on behalf of LFP (curiously, the amount of payment demanded by
Engholm was

virtually identical to the amount paid by him for the reprinting of the
*Nova SF *issue). This case

was tried by the Stockholm District Court, which found against Engholm. On
appealing to the

Superior Court, Engholm was informed at the pretrial court hearing that the
defendants were

tiring of his innuendo and would this time demand restitution for all costs
caused by the trial;

Engholm then at the suggestion of the Court dropped his charges. He has
since claimed that he

did not lose his case.
3 It should be noted in this connection that Engholm already by the end of

1987 had begun selling through his fanzines various books and magazine
issues published by

LFP, something he continued to do for years, with the proceeds from these
sales purportedly

going to what he called the ”SEFF Damage Fund”. He claimed at the time, and
has continued to

do so, that what he sold were his contributor’s and staff member copies. It
remains a fact that the

number of free copies of books and magazines normally given to contributors
and staff members
is quite limited."


I den här texten pratas som synes om en "SEFF Damage Fund". Nu börjar det
nästan bli intressant för man kan undra vad en brottsling som Ahrvid Engholm
gjorde med dom pengarna han samlade in på det sättet.

/ Birgitta Svensson          :
/heligabirgitta@xxxxxxxxx:
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