Ingvar Kamprad According to an article in the Swedish business weekly "Veckans Affärer" in 2004, Kamprad was one of the world's wealthiest people. This report was based on the assumption that he owned the entire company, an approach both IKEA and the Kamprad family rejected. Kamprad retained little direct ownership in the company, having transferred his interest to Stichting INGKA Foundation and INGKA Holding as part of a complex tax sheltering scheme that leaves his actual degree of control vague. In March 2010, "Forbes" magazine estimated Kamprad's fortune at US$23 billion, making him the eleventh richest person in the world. A year
Ingvar Kamprad interview, that "Per Engdahl is a great man, and I will maintain that as long as I live." Writing in "The Daily Telegraph", in August 2011; Richard Orange noted that the 1943 file proved for the first time that Kamprad "was an active member of Svensk Socialistisk Samling– successor to the Swedish Nationalist Socialist Workers Party –citing his membership number: 4013. It quotes letters intercepted from Mr Kamprad, then 17, in which he enthuses about recruiting new members and says that he "misses no opportunity to work for the movement." Orange added, "The secret service concluded that, as Mr Kamprad