I would be somewhat surprised if anyone in Sweden with a registered company and easily looked up (these guys appear as 3rd level contacts on LinkedIn for me) would try such a scam. While Sweden is known for our relaxed correctional institutions we do tend to take financial crimes quite seriously.

(We even have a tendency to extradite people from countries we don't even have extradition treaties with)

I would not be surprised to learn that there are chip designers (let's say, in Switzerland with an ST:Microelectronics background) who would design and manufacture ASICs for resellers with investment money from a financial background - like Andreas and Sam here.

With that said, I've seen better introduction posts