<P> Blomkvist is an investigative journalist and co-owner of the monthly magazine Millennium based in Stockholm , Sweden . At the start of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , he loses a libel case involving damaging allegations about billionaire industrialist Hans - Erik Wennerström , and is sentenced to three months in prison . Facing jail time and professional disgrace , Blomkvist steps down from his position on the magazine 's board of directors . At the same time , he is offered a freelance assignment by Henrik Vanger , the former CEO of Vanger Enterprises and patriarch of the wealthy Vanger family , to help him solve the cold case of his great - niece , Harriet Vanger , who has been missing for 36 years and presumed dead . Blomkvist reluctantly accepts the case in exchange for valuable information Vanger claims to have that would help him in his case against Wennerström . </P>
<P> Blomkvist is an investigative journalist and co-owner of the monthly magazine Millennium based in Stockholm , Sweden . At the start of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , he loses a libel case involving damaging allegations about billionaire industrialist Hans - Erik Wennerström , and is sentenced to three months in prison . Facing jail time and professional disgrace , Blomkvist steps down from his position on the magazine 's board of directors . At the same time , he is offered a freelance assignment by Henrik Vanger , the former CEO of Vanger Enterprises and patriarch of the wealthy Vanger family , to help him solve the cold case of his great - niece , Harriet Vanger , who has been missing for 36 years and presumed dead . Blomkvist reluctantly accepts the case in exchange for valuable information Vanger claims to have that would help him in his case against Wennerström . </P>
who is wennerstrom in the girl with the dragon tattoo
who is wennerstrom in the girl with the dragon tattoo
billionaire industrialist
billionaire industrialist