After a year in custody, two Swedish brothers of Iranian descent have been charged with many years of espionage for Russia. One of them held temporary posts in Sweden’s civil and military intelligence services. Meanwhile, a Russian agent operating under a false identity has been exposed in Norway.
The headquarters of the Russian military intelligence service in Moscow in a picture from 2018. Espionage cases in Sweden and Norway are linked to the service these days.
After extensive investigations, the public prosecutor’s office in Sweden on Friday identified two Swedish citizens of Iranian descent officially accused of long-standing espionage on behalf of Russia. What is spectacular about the case is that one of the two accused, a 42-year-old man, according to media reports from 2011 to 2015 in batches of both des Police Information Service Säkerhetspolisen (Säpo) as well as the army and military intelligence before he was arrested in autumn 2021.