I have some inside info, which is how I heard about it. This guy Folke Straube that the article mentions is part of the scam. But they had another guy in Switzerland acting as a front so Folke actually got away with it.
The article I linked is just about the many complaints raised against him and his business practices. And I believe they mention the charging stations as part of it.
There was a project in Sweden called Klimatklivet where you could get grant money for anything that would combat fossil fuel consumption. So they applied for this and got money from both Sweden and the EU to build a lot of charging stations.
Really the gov is at fault for approving this because as far as I can recall it was a very ambitious number of charging stations, national coverage. And only a few were built, the rest of the grant money was just taken.
1. https://www.hd.se/2020-10-11/foretrader-foretagarna-i-helsin...
So they just started reporting how many they had done, and kept getting grants from the government and the EU.
Until someone actually went out and tried to find the charging stations. That's when they fled. They had a front in Switzerland I believe. Most of them got away with it.