Two brothers born in Iran have been charged with spying on behalf of Russia in Sweden for ten years, with one of the brothers having held jobs in the Swedish Security Police (Sapo) and the Swedish armed forces.
Two brothers born in Iran have been charged with spying on behalf of Russia in Sweden for ten years, with one of the brothers having held jobs in the Swedish Security Police and the Swedish armed forces.
The two brothers, who were born in Iran, have been in custody since their arrest last year and are accused of engaging in espionage activities on behalf of Russia for around ten years between September 2011 and September 2021. Initially, it was not clear who the men may have been passing along their information to, but now Swedish prosecutors have named the pair’s alleged client as the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate, better known by the abbreviation GRU, broadcaster SVT“The security police have been conducting a preliminary investigation against a suspected spy for a long time. An insider, a mole in the Swedish Security Police and the Armed Forces.
“We claim that these two people have reached the GRU, the Russian military intelligence service. We claim that this crime is directed against Sweden’s intelligence and security services,” he added. Two Iranian brothers are set to face trial over allegations one acted as a mole in the Swedish security police and military intelligence.
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