Rear Admiral Carl-Fredrik Robert Algernon (9 October 1925 – 15 January 1987) was a Swedish Navy officer.
[2] From 1964 to 1967, Algernon served as a teacher of tactics at the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College and regionally in Gothenburg and in Karlskrona.
Algernon was commanding officer of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla (Första jagarflottiljen, 1. jaflj) from 1971 to 1972 when he was promoted to senior captain.
[5] Earlier on the day he had a meeting with the CEO of Nobel Industrier (the new owners of Bofors), Anders Carlberg, about the allegations of smuggling against the company.
[4] Due to Algernon's position as a leading investigator of the Bofors scandal, it was speculated that he might have been assassinated (i.e. pushed down on the railway).
The police also chose to initiate a criminal investigation when, among others, the train driver witnessed how Algernon fell backwards on the track.
[7] Former Minister of Trade and County Governor in the 1980s Björn Molin claims in his book Ingen väg tillbaka ("No way back", 2002) that Algernon was murdered because he knew too much.