Sweden’s former national security adviser, Henrik Landerholm, faces trial over leaving classified documents at a conference centre. The documents were found by a cleaner with connection to a Russian citizen who has been linked to violent Islamist extremism.
Sweden’s former national security adviser, Henrik Landerholm, faces trial over leaving classified documents at a conference centre. The documents were found by a cleaner with connection to a Russian citizen who has been linked to violent Islamist extremism.
Sweden’s former national security adviser, Henrik Landerholm, faces trial over leaving classified documents at a conference centre. The documents were found by a cleaner with connection to a Russian citizen who has been linked to violent Islamist extremism.
Landerholm, a close friend of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and hand-picked for his role, stepped down as security adviser in January 2025 after a prosecutor opened an investigation into him leaving highly classified documents behind at a conference centre in 2023.
The incident, which was first reported by the DN newspaper, was followed by reports of a series of other slip-ups, including Landerholm leaving his notebook at public radio broadcaster SR’s studios, and his mobile phone at the embassy of Hungary during the Nato talks.
He has now been charged with “carelessness with secret information”, reports DN.
According to the charge sheet, submitted to Attunda District Court and seen by The Local, the person who found the documents at the conference centre can be “linked to the violent extremist environment”.
DN reports that the Georgian cleaner who found the documents received 15,000 kronor from a Russian citizen linked to violent Islamist extremism, who security police Säpo has previously been monitoring. There’s no evidence that the transaction is connected to the documents.
Landerholm has previously claimed that the documents were left in a locked cupboard. However, the charge sheet states that the cupboard was unlocked.
According to the charge sheet, the documents concerned “matters of a secret nature, the disclosure of which to a foreign power could harm Swedish national security”.
His lawyer has previously said that Landerholm believes he is not guilty.
“The almost two-year-old incident (…) was reported to and investigated by the government offices’ security department, which found that, beyond conversations, required no further action against me,” said Landerholm after he stepped down from his post in January.
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