STOCKHOLM — Swedish authorities arrested two individuals on suspicions of espionage in a predawn operation Tuesday within the Stockholm space.
The authorities gave few particulars concerning the case, however Swedish media cited witnesses who described elite police rappelling from two Black Hawk helicopters to arrest a pair that had allegedly spied for Russia.
Sweden’s Prosecution Authority stated one of many two was accused of “gross unlawful intelligence actions in opposition to Sweden and in opposition to a overseas energy.” The authority didn’t determine the opposite nation allegedly spied on.
Sweden’s safety company stated the operation, which included home searches, was carried out with the help of the police and the Swedish Armed Forces, which offered helicopters. The spy company stated a probe “has been ongoing for a while.”
The company didn’t determine which nation the 2 suspects labored for or give some other particulars.
Swedish media reported that the suspects are a person and a girl of their 60s and that they’re a pair. Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that they have been Russians who arrived in Sweden within the late Nineteen Nineties.
The Related Press couldn’t instantly verify these reviews.
Fredrik Hultgren Friberg, a spokesperson for Sweden’s home safety service, identified by its acronym SAPO, instructed the Aftonbladet tabloid that “there was a must rapidly arrest the suspects.”
A spokesperson for Sweden’s Armed Forces instructed Aftonbladet that that they had “supported SAPO with two helicopters.” Swedish Broadcaster TV4 stated members of an elite police tactical unit rappelled from two Black Hawk helicopters hovering over the suspects’ home in a residential Stockholm neighborhood.
Tuesday’s developments observe the arrest of two Iran-born brothers who have been charged earlier this month in Sweden with alleged spying for Russia. A type of two males, each naturalized Swedes, labored for Sweden’s home intelligence company. They have been charged with spying for the GRU, Russia’s navy intelligence service, for round a decade, from 2011 to 2021.
The prosecution authority burdened that Tuesday’s growth was not linked to the case of of the naturalized Swedish brothers.
