Bengt Holgersson | |
Order: | 1st Governor of Skåne |
Term Start: | 1997 |
Term End: | 2006 |
Appointed: | Göran Persson |
Predecessor: | Position established |
Successor: | Göran Tunhammar |
Birth Date: | 16 September 1941 |
Birth Place: | Älghult, Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Party: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
Alma Mater: | Lund University |
Profession: | Politician |
Bengt Holgersson (born September 16, 1941) was the first Governor of Skåne County after a merger of Malmöhus County and Kristianstad County in 1997. Holgersson was involved in a corruption scandal in April 2006.[1] Both Holgersson and municipal commissioner Ilmar Reepalu were tried for corruption regarding a trip to South Africa which they had accepted from Sigma AB. In the end Both Holgersson and Reepalu were acquitted.[2] In 2006 he was succeeded by Göran Tunhammar as Governor of Skåne.