Swedish diary “Aftonbladetinformed Tuesday, November 22 of the operation carried out the same day in Stockholm. Swedish anti-terrorists have arrested two people suspected of spying on behalf of a foreign state.
Sweden. Married couple suspected of spying for Russia
As we read, at 6 a.m. on Tuesday the tranquility of one of the suburbs on the outskirts of Stockholm was disturbed by helicopters from the SAPO special services. – The name of the case is Operation Spear. As part of the ongoing preliminary investigation at SAPO, the police intervened this morning and arrested two people and secured the premises for search, Stefan Hector, head of the Noah operational unit, told the newspaper.
“Aftonbladet” determined that two 60-year-olds should be arrested – a married couple who emigrated more than 20 years ago to Sweden With Russia. “They lived a quiet life in a villa” – we read in the next article on the case.
Police suspects that the man “has been spying for a foreign power for about ten years”. His wife is suspected of acting as an accomplice. The couple will also run an import and export business in Sweden for electronic components and industrial technology. Its turnover should reach 30 million crowns per year. The daily reports that it is suspected that the company is in fact a base for illegal intelligence activities.
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Swedish services carried out an operation in the suburbs of Stockholm. A married couple spying for Russia?
As reported in the morning paperthe operation lasted less than a minute. Stefan Hector stressed that speed was important so that suspects “can’t flush anything down the toilet or destroy computers”.
“The case is not related to any other ongoing case handled by the Swedish security service,” it read.
