The Attunda District Court announced last week that the trial against former security adviser Henrik Landerholm would begin at the end of May. Now, the trial start appears to be August 18 instead.
We have been told that additional witnesses may be added. Then we need more than one day, and it didn't fit during that period. We didn't get a spot because the parties couldn't make it then, says Chief Judge Lennart Christianson to DN.
Henrik Landerholm is charged with gross negligence with confidential information. This is because classified documents were left behind at the Gällöfsta conference center in March 2023.
According to DN, a current chief of staff at the Government Offices has deleted an email that proved the sequence of events and that the classified material was in the wrong hands for several days.
"A lot of papers"
In the email sent between the CEO of Gällöfsta conference center and an employee at a cybersecurity company, the CEO writes: "Do you have Henrik Landerholm's contact information?"
The CEO continues, according to DN:
"He visited us last week and left a lot of papers that I think he wants".
The email was sent two days after Landerholm left the documents behind and was forwarded to an official at the Government Offices.
When the Security Police began investigating the incident, the Government Offices did not provide the email. And in an interview, the conference center's CEO allegedly said that no email had been sent about what had happened.
Deleted
But in an interview with the cybersecurity company, investigators found a copy of the email. Then, a search warrant was executed at Gällöfsta conference center, where Säpo technicians found the original email in the digital trash can.
In a comment to DN, the Government Offices' press service writes that the email was received, handled internally, and deleted according to established routines.
Chief Prosecutor Per Lindqvist at the National Unit for Security Cases, who is leading the investigation, confirms to the newspaper that the Security Police did not receive the email from the Government Offices.
Henrik Landerholm left his post as national security adviser when a criminal investigation against him was initiated in January this year.
Last week, he was charged with gross negligence with confidential information.
According to the charge, he "through gross negligence has unauthorizedly disclosed" classified information in documents that he left behind at a conference center outside Stockholm in March 2023.
Landerholm denies the crime.
