IKEA’s Enemy No. 1
Liberating Russia from Soviet drabness, IKEA expanded in leaps and bounds across the huge country. One local contractor turned out to be too expensive and IKEA just told him to get lost. The Russian sued and IKEA ended up paying him a billion dollars. He claimed he was owed another billion – and got arrested by the Russian secret service. He claims it was on IKEA’s orders and is in jail ever since.
One day in 2015, a Moscow lawyer contacted his old acquaintance, an ex-officer of the FSB, Russia’s federal security service. The lawyer had a business proposal. Could the FSB veteran help arrest and imprison a businessman? The reward for a successful outcome would be to the tune of 200 million dollars.
The businessman in question was Konstantin Ponomarev. His name had hit the headlines in Russia a few times while the Swedish paper Expressen called him “Ingvar Kamprad’s No 1 enemy”. Why? Ponomarev had sued IKEA, and the famous company reluctantly settled out of court, paying him a whopping one billion dollars.
Technical Specifications
Year 2026
Length 90 min / 3 x 30 min
Original title IKEA’s Enemy No. 1
Language Russian, English
Production company Piraya Film, New Flesh Films
Production country Norway, Germany
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2026
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