Political scandal in Sweden about sexual photos and a diplomat after being accused of being a spy.

BarcelonaThe Swedish government has been shaken by several events in the past few weeks. That could be worth a political thriller script: sex scandals, alleged spies and sudden deaths. It all started on May 8, when the government appointed the former ambassador to Tobias Thyberg as the new national security advisor in Ukraine. On the same day, he was supposed to travel to a meeting in Oslo with the Prime Minister. He resigned a few hours later. The reason was that half an hour after his appointment, someone had sent both the government and some media who affected the photos of Thyberg, which he himself sent through a dating app years ago.

According to the newspaper Dagen's nyheterThe photos came from a report that the diplomat on Grindr, a LGBTI dating app, had opened, but which he had concluded before the recommendations of his new team in the Foreign Ministry. “I should have reported that, but I didn't do it. So I announced that I did not intend to take on the role of the national security consultant,” argued the former diplomat. After submitting his resignation, Thyberg received hard criticism from Prime Minister Ulf Kristsson, which he presented to him because he had hidden important information during the security check.

“Avoiding the declaration of intent to mention things that could be compromised or that could be discovered by foreign power simply contradicts all rules. This cannot be done,” argued the conservative prime minister. The scandal was a blow for Kristersson, who created the position of the national security advisor in 2022. In the most serious incident, a classified documents in a hotel is unattended, but before that a telephone was also left behind in the Hungarian message.

The fact that Thyberg had resigned so soon after the high resignation of Landerholm is obviously a difficult blow for the government, especially for the prime minister, who created the position and ignored objections himself from members of his own party when he selected a friend for the newly created position. “It is extremely serious to fail twice in such an important position,” said Peter Hultqvist, the defense spokesman for the Social Democrats in Parliament and former defense minister. “This creates a picture of incompetence in Sweden.”

This also triggered a debate about whether someone should be released just to send nude photos, and the prime minister was even accused of being homophobic or getting out of “moral panic” when three Swedish politicians pointed out in a joint article.

Diplomat accused of spying dead dead

But the headache of the Swedish government did not end there. Four days after the resignation of Thyberg, the secret services (Supo) arrested a diplomat that was suspected of the espionage. According to media reports, he was a high -ranking diplomat that was published in various messages around the world. According to public television, the investigation is associated with Thyberg's intimate photos and its resignation.

In recent years, the Swedish authorities have taken care of the growing threats of foreign powers such as Russia, China and Iran as well as groups involved in measures involved in violent attacks and hybrid warfare to the espionage of corporate espionages. In March, the secret services warned that foreign powers used hybrid activities to destabilize Sweden.

The following day, May 14th, the diplomat was released due to fees. The arrested man who denied the allegations described the arrest as “fearsome experience” and reported the police for assault and misconception. The film material of his apartment door, which was broadcast on Swedish television, showed that it had been opened at the time of his arrest. The arrested man had requested medical help for his injuries and submitted a report in which excessive violence was used.

This was all strange enough for the last turn last Friday, when the diplomat, which was only published two days earlier, was found dead. The police said that there are no suspicious circumstances related to death, but an investigation continues. The Swedish media reported that he had spent a long time outside of Europe, most recently as an ambassador. When asked whether the late man was an ambassador, his lawyer declined a comment.