12-05-2025
Swedish security police arrest person in Stockholm for espionage
Swedish intelligence said Monday it had arrested one person suspected of spying in the capital, declining to give any more details.
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"An operation was carried out the other day in the Stockholm area, after which one person is under arrest," Johan Wikström, spokesman for the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) told AFP, adding it had opened an "espionage" case.
Wikström said the operation had "proceeded calmly," but declined to disclose the nationality or gender of the suspect, or any other details.
Sweden has in recent years seen several high-profile spying cases.
In January 2023, a former Swedish intelligence officer was handed a life sentence for spying for Russia.
And in September of the same year, a Russian-Swedish national went on trial accused of passing Western technology to Russia's military. A Stockholm court found he had exported the material but ruled his actions did not amount to intelligence gathering.
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In February 2024, the Swedish Agency for Support for Faith Communities cut funding to the Russian Orthodox Church in Sweden, after Säpo warned that it believed the church was being used for intelligence activities.
In its annual assessment, published in March, Säpo spotlighted Russia, China and Iran as the primary actors directing intelligence activities targeting the Nordic country.
