The indictment mainly covers gross document falsification, for which the three people are suspected.
The former passport officer is also charged with false certification, serious crime and data breach, according to a press release from the Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday.
The two other people are charged firstly as accomplices and secondarily as aides in the production of seven false passports.
“Serious if trust is damaged”
– It is very serious if trust in Swedish passports is damaged. It is not at all good that a fake Swedish passport of the highest quality has been produced with the police’s own equipment and then used by an unknown person, says chief prosecutor Nicklas Englund at the Special Prosecutor’s Chamber.
The suspected crimes took place in May and June 2023 at the passport office in Norrköping.