Now we do not doubt that he was executed in the Lubyanka Russian investigator Alexander Yakovlev Mr Wallenberg was last seen in January 1945 in Budapest, after being summoned to the headquarters of the Soviet army which had seized the city. Diplomatic protection During the Nazi occupation of Hungary, Wallenberg was thought to have saved tens of thousands of Jews by distributing Swedish identity cards to those threatened with deportation to concentration camps. The Soviet Union first claimed that Wallenberg was killed in the Budapest streets. He said most of the relevant documents had been destroyed, but he had learnt about the execution from Vladimir Kryuchov, an ex-KGB chief of the 1980s. Swedish scepticism Russia and Sweden have set up a joint committee to uncover Wallenberg's fate, but Sweden's senior official has played down Mr Yakovlev's assertion.
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