A Russian-born Swedish citizen was charged Monday with collecting information for the Russian military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade.
Sweden's Prosecution Authority said Sergey Skvortsov, 60, was accused of “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power.” Prosecutor Henrik Olin later identified the foreign power as the United States.
According to the charge sheet, obtained by The Associated Press, Skvortsov from July 1, 2014, to November 2022, “secretly and/or with the use of fraudulent means conducted activities for the Russian state with the aim of acquiring information about conditions whose disclosure to a foreign power could endanger Sweden's security.”
“The business further consisted of acquiring data in the form of information about and the acquisition of various objects that the Russian state and the armed forces - due to export regulations and sanctions - were not able to procure on the open market.”
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