On Tuesday, Swedish authorities arrested two people in Stockholm for “illegal disclosure of information”. The press reported that it was a married couple of Russian origin, reports AFP, citing News.ro.

“One of the arrested persons is suspected of “illegal disclosure of information against Sweden and illegal disclosure of information against a foreign state.” Another person is suspected of complicity,” Swedish intelligence services SÄPO said in a press release, noting that a third person was also questioned.

According to court documents obtained by AFP, prosecutors estimate that the information-gathering process began in January 2013 in the Stockholm area.

For its part, SÄPO indicated that the investigation that led to the arrests had been ongoing “for some time,” but did not provide information on the identities of the suspects, the countries involved in the intelligence gathering, or the nature of the information. collected

According to the daily newspaper Aftonbladet, it will be about a married Russian couple in their 60s, owners of an electronic component manufacturing company, who were arrested at dawn in the residential suburb of Stockholm where they live.

The man is suspected of espionage for Russia, and his wife is suspected of complicity, Aftonbladet also writes.

The Swedish authorities emphasized that these arrests “have nothing to do with other cases currently being handled by the special services.”

In November, Swedish prosecutors charged two Swedish brothers with “serious espionage” for the Russian military intelligence (GRU) between 2011 and 2021.