Jan Stocklassa (born 1965) is a former Swedish diplomat and businessman. He served as the Swedish commercial counsellor for the Swedish Trade Council, the commercial section of the embassy, in

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from 1997 to 2003. He is the author of the novel ''Gripen av Prag'', a fictionalized account based on Stocklassa's experiences when it emerged that a Czech supersonic jetfighter deal involving

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and

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had shown signs of corruption. He has since served at a senior level on the board of Boss Media, a Swedish-based supplier of online gambling software infrastructure, and previously as head of the international division of software company Svenska Spel. In 2018 his book ''Stieg Larssons arkiv'' was published, and released in English the following year, translated by Tara F. Chace, under the title ''The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin''. In the book Stocklassa presents a biographical profile of crime writer

Stieg Larsson Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (, ; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish writer, journalist, and far-left activist. He is best known for writing the ''Millennium'' trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, sta ...

and investigates the

assassination of Olof Palme On 28 February 1986, at 23:21 Central European Time, CET (22:21 Coordinated Universal Time, UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme on the ...

, presenting theories based on Larsson's research into the Swedish far right and its possible connections to the assassination.

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1965 births Living people Diplomats for Sweden Swedish people of Czech descent Swedish expatriates in the Czech Republic {{Sweden-writer-stub