Fins al 2006, quan va ser nomenat ministre, Bildt havia format part de la directiva de Lundin Petroleum, l’empresa petroliera sueca sobre la qual volien investigar Schibbye i Persson a la regió d’Ogaden.
Until 2006, when Bildt was appointed foreign minister, he served as a board member of Lundin Petroleum, the Swedish oil company whose activities Schibbye and Persson were intending to investigate in the Ogaden province.