{"id":139980,"date":"2025-05-14T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/swedish-senior-diplomat-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-say-reports\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T07:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:30:53","slug":"swedish-senior-diplomat-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-say-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/swedish-senior-diplomat-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-say-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish senior diplomat arrested on suspicion of spying, say reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139980\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>newsletter_lock]<br \/>\nA senior Swedish diplomat has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, as the security services investigate a potential link to the sudden resignation last week of the government\u2019s national security adviser, local media have reported. Sweden\u2019s security service (S\u00e4po) said on Tuesday it had arrested a person, identified in media reports as a high-ranking diplomat who had been stationed at several embassies around the world, on suspicion of spying. According to the Swedish national broadcaster SVT, S\u00e4po is investigating whether there is a connection between the diplomat and the resignation of Tobias Thyberg, a former ambassador to Ukraine. Thyberg was forced to quit as national security adviser on Thursday just hours after being appointed when intimate photos of him from the dating site Grindr were sent to the government.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the prosecutor said the unnamed diplomat was suspected of carrying out espionage during the same period that Thyberg was forced out. Thyberg is not suspected of any crime, SVT reported. He was, very briefly, the replacement for Henrik Landerholm, the former national security adviser who was also forced to resign in January over mislaying classified documents. Swedish authorities have raised concerns in recent years about increasing threats from foreign powers such as Russia, China and Iran and groups engaging in actions ranging from violent attacks and hybrid warfare to corporate espionage. In March, S\u00e4po warned that foreign powers were operating in ways that threatened security, using hybrid activities to destabilise Sweden and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The justice minister, Gunnar Str\u00f6mmer, told SVT on Tuesday the government had been informed of S\u00e4po\u2019s operation and that the person in custody was suspected \u201con reasonable grounds\u201d of espionage. Reasonable grounds is the lower of two grades of suspicion in Sweden. \u201cThe investigation has to be carried out and I don\u2019t want to pre-empt it,\u201d Str\u00f6mmer said in a statement to SVT. Anton Strand, the lawyer appointed to defend the person in custody, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e4po said that one person had been arrested after an operation in the Stockholm area and that they were unable to provide further information owing to secrecy. Karin Lutz, a spokesperson for S\u00e4po, said that while she understood the questions about potential links between the two incidents, she could not comment. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the news and I understand it raises a lot of questions but what we can say is there is one person who has been arrested,\u201d she said. The prosecutor\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/13\/swedish-senior-diplomat-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-say-reports\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n[\/newsletter_lock]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/swedish-senior-diplomat-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-say-reports\/\">Swedish senior diplomat arrested on suspicion of spying, say reports<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[555,6727,2793,655],"class_list":["post-139980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-csr-news-en","tag-spy","tag-swedish","tag-yleinen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}