The man and the woman were detained by the Stockholm district court on Friday on probable cause on suspicion of gross unauthorized position with secret information. Today, the ex-top military’s lawyer, Thomas Olsson, submitted an appeal to the Court of Appeal to try to lift the arrest, writes Dagens Nyheter. – We do not believe that there are probable grounds for the criminal suspicion and we also believe that his fundamental right to defend himself has not been respected in the handling of the detention issue, says Thomas Olsson to the newspaper Känsliga avdelningar The crime is classified as a threat to national security and is being investigated by the Security Police, who in a dawn raid on Tuesday last week arrested the couple. The man is a high-ranking officer, with a solid resume and has worked in several sensitive units in the Armed Forces. The wife has worked for decades at the sensitive intelligence agency FRA, the Norwegian Defense Radio Agency, where, among other things, they work with signals intelligence. She has studied Russian at university level for several years. Her defender, Kristoffer Stahre, has not wanted to comment on how she reacts to the suspicions. • Do you know more about the case? Tip TV4 News encrypted here •
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