Now it's over. Now it's up to the court, says Henrik Landerholm when he comes out of the courtroom after three days of trial.
On Wednesday, the prosecutors and the defense made pleadings in the case where Sweden's former security adviser is charged with negligence with secret information.
Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist wants to see a conviction.
If this act were not criminal, then this legislation would almost lack significance, he says.
He emphasizes that Landerholm is one of the most experienced officials in the country when it comes to security and national security issues.
"Little, little control"
In addition, several authorities, including Säpo and Must, have assessed that the documents contain information that can harm Sweden's security.
According to the prosecutor, Henrik Landerholm loses control over the documents when he puts them in the hotel room's safe, where unauthorized persons also have a code. But the alleged gross negligence occurs the next day when he is to check out.
He doesn't even make the little, little security check that would have meant that we wouldn't have had to sit here today. He apparently doesn't even put his hand in and check that all the documents are there.
There is a deliberate risk-taking in that. He does not carry out the most basic of checks.
Landerholm denies the crime. His defense attorney Johan Eriksson says that "one disagrees about everything" with the prosecutors.
The defense believes that the former security adviser was not negligent and that the information did not risk harming Sweden's security.
"Human to forget"
Eriksson returns to the large workload that Landerholm had and emphasizes that it is "human to forget".
He is on his way to a sensitive meeting with papers in his hand. He has not received any information that it would be protected and secret in the way that the prosecutor claims.
Given what he then knew, there is nothing to indicate a deliberate risk-taking.
Eriksson also means that it has been investigated that no outsider has taken part in the information. Therefore, they are not to be considered as disclosed in the legal sense, he claims.
The prosecutors, on the other hand, believe that it is enough that unauthorized persons have had the documents "in possession".
The verdict will be announced on September 5.
Henrik Landerholm left the post as national security adviser when a criminal investigation against him was initiated in January this year.
He is charged, suspected of negligence with secret information.
According to the indictment, he "through gross negligence, unauthorized, disclosed" secret information in documents that he forgot on a conference center outside Stockholm in March 2023. The prosecutors believe that it could have harmed Sweden's security.
According to DN, the documents came from a conversation between Landerholm and the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, right in the middle of Sweden's sensitive NATO process.
