In January 2023, Björn Fagerberg came to the Government Offices as a coordinator. Fagerberg came most recently from the embassy in Washington and the Government Offices described it as a "loan" from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
However, the handling may contravene the Security Protection Act. Fagerberg was security-cleared at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, but not for the new assignment.
In Sweden, a person who is employed by security-sensitive activities must undergo security clearance for each employment or assignment.
Security clearance is tied to the position. It may sound bureaucratic and administratively unnecessary, but the purpose is to ensure that the wrong people do not end up in the wrong place. The new position may have a completely different level of protection than the old one, says Malen Wallén, strategic advisor at the Centre for Total Defence and Security at the Swedish Defence University, to DN.
Henrik Landerholm tells the newspaper that he followed the Government Offices' security organization's assessment that no new security clearance was needed.
Corrected: In an earlier text, Fagerberg's assignment was incorrectly described.
