“I am enormously relieved. It has been a long process - and even though I will not be compensated for all my losses through this settlement, I look forward to being able to put the process behind me,” he says in a statement.
The conflict began in the autumn of 2023, when the Swedish National Food Agency banned Soltani from selling his products, saying they could not be called wine. However, the administrative court ruled in his favour. In the meantime, production had come to a standstill and the grapes were destroyed.
This year, he launched a new legal process in Stockholm District Court, where he claimed 8.2 million kronor in business losses. In early November, the parties agreed to a settlement that gives him just over 1.2 million.
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