“Russia is Sweden’s biggest security threat.” Stockholm court found two citizens of the country guilty of spying for Russia
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The Stockholm District Court found two Swedish citizens guilty of spying for Russia. The Local is the most serious spy scandal in the history of modern Sweden.
According to investigators, the brothers Peiman and Payam Kia have been transmitting information to the public special services that poses a threat to Sweden’s national security for ten years.
According to press release court, 42-year-old Peiman Kia, who previously worked in the State Security and Armed Forces Service of Sweden, received secret data using his official position, and 35-year-old Payam Kia passed this data to Russian intelligence and received a reward for it.
As a result of the court session, which lasted more than a year, the court sentenced Peyman Kia to a life Agreement, and Payam Kia to nine years and ten months in prison.
“Russia is the biggest threat to the security of Sweden, so acts of espionage in Russia should be regarded as the most serious,” the Local Court quotes.
The brothers themselves do not admit their guilt, and their lawyers intend to appeal the verdict.
Peyman and Payam brothers Intestinal organs of Swedish organs detained autumn 2021. They have confiscated technology, multiple storage media, and cash and gold, which writes edition of Aftonbladet, they monitor their espionage activities.
After the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine, the media regularly waterfall messages Aboutthat Russian spies and citizens exporting to Russia are being revealed in European countries. At the end of December 2022, the head of the Federal Intelligence and Counterintelligence Service of Germany, Bruno Kahl declared about exposing a Russian spy in the ranks of the special services themselves.