Interestingly there’s a Wirecard angle.
More from the Bulgarians
“It worries me greatly because we do not spy on friends,” Lars Løkke Rasmussen said
Oh, the irony.
Well, that’s outsourcing for you.
So… was it a diplomat to Sweden, or a diplomat from Sweden?
They were arrested by Swedish security services, so I have assume they were arrested in Sweden, and that they were arrested for spying on Sweden, and not for it.
Next day:
He says it is because he had not told the government about ‘sensitive’ pictures he had shared in the past on a dating site during the vetting process, reports newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
A senior Swedish diplomat…
unable to provide further information owing to secrecy
intimate photos of him from the dating site Grindr
- Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar inverters
- Undocumented cellular radios also found in Chinese batteries
These are two different cases. Tobias Thyberg, the security advisor, is resigning because he wasn’t truthful in his security check, he didn’t disclose his Grindr activity, which would have made him vulnerable to blackmail.
The unnamed diplomat, as far as I can tell, is a Swedish diplomat who acted as a spy for a foreign country.
I know nothing of the story beyond the Guardian article, which includes
According to the Swedish national broadcaster SVT, Säpo is investigating whether there is a connection between the diplomat and the resignation of Tobias Thyberg, a former ambassador to Ukraine