Spy suspect arrested for plotting
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Spy suspect arrested for plotting murder in Moscow

The 34-year-old man, a former Armed Forces employee who has been in custody since January on suspicion of espionage, is now also being held for conspiracy to commit murder.

According to Expressen, the new suspicion concerns a conspiracy to commit murder in Moscow, a crime that, according to court documents, was committed in December 2025.

It is not known what has triggered the new suspicion. However, the suspicion has been raised to the higher level of probable cause and is being investigated by the Security Service.

Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist at the National Security Unit is leading the preliminary investigation and has requested that the man also be detained on the new criminal suspicion.

"It was aimed at a person in Sweden and the act, I claim, was partly planned in Moscow," he tells P4 Sörmland.

The man denies the crime.

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