Tele2 pushing for new UN Sustainable Development Goals on anti-corruption

Stockholm - Tele2 AB, (Tele2), (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: TEL2 A and TEL2 B) has
together with the network Swedish Leadership for Sustainable Development, SLSD,
pushed for  goals regarding anti-corruption in the upcoming United Nation’s set
of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which succeeds the Millennium
Development Goals.
Tele2 is a part of the Swedish network; SLSD, which has about 20 member
companies, facilitated by Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency). The network has made a commitment to individually and collectively work
to reduce corruption, and to promote ethical business practices in countries
where we operate.

Marie Baumgarts, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Tele2 AB, comments: “Since
the Millenium Development Goals were launched over a decade ago, we have seen a
lot of positive developments. However, within the network we felt that one
significant challenge remained; goals regarding corruption. Corruption plays an
important part in for example poverty and the discrimination of human rights. So
within the network we decided to do something about it. When the original
millennium goals were set, companies were practically not a part of the process
at all. Today, we sit in the front row and are influential. That is what I call
progress!”

A specific anti-corruption group, including Tele2 AB and Swedfund amongst
others, was created. Together the representatives from the companies drafted a
document emphasizing the importance of introducing goals regarding anti
-corruption which subsequently went into the proposed post 2015 development
agenda as sub goals. The sub goals state that member states of the UN shall
“substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all its forms” and “develop
effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels”. The post
2015 agenda is currently under negotiation and shall be adopted in New York on
25 September this year.

Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Director General of Sida, comments: “The importance
of private sector engagement for sustainable global development is increasingly
being recognized, in Sweden as well as globally. Companies have great potential
to address major challenges such as corruption. Sida is working actively to
promote this through different models for private sector collaboration."

For more information, please contact:

Lars Torstensson, EVP Corporate Communication and Strategy, Tele2 AB, Phone: +46
702 73 48 79.
Viktor Wallström, Head of Public Relations, Tele2 AB, Phone: +46 703 63 53 27