Ulf Kristersson is being questioned by the Riksdag's Constitutional Committee (KU) regarding the developments surrounding former national security advisor Henrik Landerholm.
The committee is reviewing the request for the release of documents from October 2024 to January 2025, not the legal proceedings. Among other things, DN took 46 days to obtain employees' email logs.
Several of the current requests should have been answered more quickly. There should be readiness to handle extradition cases even when the pressure is high, says the Prime Minister.
Took over 600 days
Kristersson is also asked why it took 673 days to record a damage assessment relating to the Landerholm case.
"It is of course far too late. If it had been requested earlier, it would have been found to be a public document earlier," says Kristersson.
He does not know why the deed was not recorded or drawn up.
It is a routine that has clearly failed in this case.
Some reasons given for the delay in the email logs include a high workload, in part due to Sweden's NATO membership and the security situation, and intervening weekends.
According to Swedish law, public documents must be released "expeditiously".
When it takes 46 days, it cannot be considered urgent, says Kristersson.
I have not been involved in any of these matters, nor have I delayed anything. But I understand that there is criticism of this; it should not take this long.
The Swedish Ombudsman (JO) has also previously criticized the Government Offices for taking so long.
“Don't take the blame”
Liberal KU member Mauricio Rojas wondered what responsibility the Prime Minister still has for the extradition cases.
There is not a millimeter of wanting to escape my responsibility as head of the Government Offices and the daily operations of 4,000 employees, but that does not mean that I bear the blame, says Kristersson.
Measures have now been taken to strengthen procedures, including reorganizing the organization and providing training to employees.
We have now ensured that we have an organization that can respond to a larger volume of disclosure requests.
Henrik Landerholm was indicted in March 2025 on suspicion of negligence with classified information. He was acquitted in the district court in September 2025. The case has been appealed.
According to the indictment, he had "out of gross negligence, unauthorizedly disclosed" confidential information in documents that he left behind at a training facility outside Stockholm in March 2023.
According to DN, the documents came from a conversation between Landerholm and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, in the midst of Sweden's sensitive NATO process.
The documents were found by a cleaning lady, who, according to Säpo, can be linked to a Russian violent extremist. They were then stored in the training centre's CEO's desk drawer for a couple of days before the Government Offices picked them up at the reception.
Henrik Landerholm left the post of national security advisor when the criminal investigation against him began in January 2025.
