Swedish authorities have condemned two citizens, one of whom works in a highly secret Swedish intelligence unit, on charges of spying for the Russian military intelligence department for a period of nearly 10 years.
“The charges against the Swedish brothers were approved in the aftermath of six years of investigations conducted by the Swedish security service” SaPo, the agency in charge of anti -spy tasks in the country, “said the electronic” Intelligence Online “electronic patrol, which specializes in security and intelligence affairs.
The “Sabo” device began its investigations and investigations on that issue as of 2017, based on doubts that suggest that “the device has become a spy between its elements,” as described the patrol.
The patrol quoted local Swedish media as saying, “The first brother is called Kia’s 35 -year -old, and the other Biman Kia is 42 years old, who are born in Iran and became Swedish citizens in 1994,” noting that the youngest brother Kia worked on the Sapo device He had the authority to access secret information at a number of Swedish government agencies.
The Swedish Security Service appointed the two brothers on charges of working jointly to pass information to the main staff of the Russian Armed Forces, known externally as GRU.
According to the Swedish authorities, the two brothers are legally legitimate in the interest of Russia in September 2011, and their cooperation continued until the fall of 2021, and accused the older brother Biman Kia of being playing the link in passing information and receiving payments between his brother and the Russian parties operating.
It is noteworthy that the younger brother was arrested in September last year, while his older brother was arrested in November of the same year, and they were sentenced to life imprisonment, and both of them denied the charges against them..
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