You’ll have to excuse me once again for digging a bit into our two scandals instead of Ukraine, even though I might have gotten a bit sour on ETC and Medin when I realized who became the scapegoat and that they are keeping quiet.
Anyway – the parliament has summoned SĂPO and the government to shed light on this, which is very good, I think they read my post and acted on it đ§
I now saw that Swedish Radio also received direct information that there were overlaps in the cases, so not only Blankspot has been directly contacted with information but there are two independent sources.
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/sapotillslag-mot-diplomat-uppges-kopplat-till-joakim-medin
We actually received some interesting information from SVT – the report against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs official and Siyar Ali was filed as early as October 8, 2024.
“On October 8 last year, a report was filed with the Security Police regarding a Swedish diplomat and a representative of a Kurdish organization.
They are suspected of serious unauthorized dealing with classified information. ‘It concerns information that if disclosed could be detrimental to Sweden’s security,’ says chamber prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist.”
An idea of how things have unfolded –
Turkey brightened up when they understood that the person they had arrested became politically hot in Sweden because the opposition made politics out of it, so they demanded a quid pro quo from the government to release Medin.
There is a certain risk that this will end up as a top-secret archive for 70 years in the end because it’s not a small mess the government has gotten itself into – SĂPO has imposed gag orders on all involved, and the newspapers seem to have taken a break from reporting, except for publications very far left, especially those close to the Kurds – the Rojava Committees are quite upset, for example.
There is, of course, a lot of communication in this matter – calls, messages, or emails. Turkey’s intelligence service has it all because they are the ones Sweden has been in contact with to get Medin released, and one must have verbally or in writing discussed what Turkey might accept to release Medin.
Now that everyone has denied the accusations, one can start leaking information that risks becoming a major political scandal in Sweden.
The opposition pushed with the help of the media as much as they could about the need to release Medin, pressuring the government to act, which was, of course, the intention of putting this pressure on them in the first place. It’s actually quite unusual for a prime minister and foreign minister to be mobilized in this way for a private individual in distress – ask the thousands of Tsunami survivors.
If our government had an ounce of morals and ethics, Shiyar Ali wouldn’t have been arrested in the first place – they have shown extremely poor judgment throughout the whole affair. Not to mention a Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs diplomat who is almost forgotten in the context because he is not named.
Both of them now have gag orders along with their lawyers, some newspapers have tried to interview Shiyar, but he refers to SĂPO and looks upset.
It’s quite audacious to silence everything by exploiting the legal system in this way.
Imagine being the person at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who is now under SĂPO investigation – how would you feel when all your colleagues avoid you. Are we suddenly some damn procurement service for the Turkish intelligence service đ¶
So, how is it going in Thyberg-gate, our other major scandal in a short time, or the first one rather?
Here we have a journalist who has seen the pictures, and he has the following to report –
-6 upper body pictures and one slightly more revealing picture, from the middle.
-the name of the email address was “a very high diplomat.”
(suggestions in speculation forums are that the name was Jan Knutsson).
https://www.svd.se/a/jQEqbL/svd-podden-politiken-pa-fest-med-thyberg
A tempest in a teapot regarding Thyberg and the pictures – the government panicked over absolutely nothing.
What greatly surprises me is that all editorial offices received this email, but none have leaked it yet.
There is also a gag order regarding this trial, but it presumably only applies to the accused and the defense, not the newspapers?
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Xj180x/svensk-diplomat-dod-pekades-ut-som-misstankt-spion
Regarding the Thyberg-linked diplomat who passed away on May 16, I am of the opinion that a foreign power is not behind it, surprising as it may sound – because the investigation concerns espionage.
I believe SĂPO went for it because it was the incoming security adviser who was convicted, and they were completely caught off guard.
After quite a bit of searching (way too much), I managed to trace the source of the diplomat’s suicide – the man passed away on Thursday night, and on Saturday, Expressen knew it was suicide because they had received information.
Suicide is completely scrubbed from the reporting now, but another sentence is making the rounds in all media, actually coming on Friday when he was found dead a few hours earlier.
“According to the police, there are no suspicions of a crime related to the death.”
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/ny2wdJ/spionmisstankt-ud-diplomat-hittad-dod
If a person is suspected of espionage, that is, working for a foreign power, and shortly after being released is found dead, shouldn’t the first thing the police and security police do be to dismiss it as suicide or no suspicions of a crime?
Here are the guidelines that SĂPO and the police have chosen not to follow –
“Which deaths should the police investigate?
One guideline is that deaths caused by other than illness should be reported to the police. The police then decide on forensic autopsy, which is carried out by the National Board of Forensic Medicine. The forensic autopsy aims primarily to rule out crimes and determine the cause of death.”
A wild speculation theory that has been circulating is that the deceased had his spleen injured during the arrest, but that can probably be ruled out because he was in custody for three days and then died a day after being released.
The diplomat was arrested three days after the pictures were received at the government offices torpedoing Thyberg – the media has unanimously made a connection to the events, and it hasn’t changed from what I can gather.
The source is “in SĂPO’s investigation according to information,” which is sometimes interspersed with “police investigation.”
Another detail from the prosecutor is that he engaged in espionage between May 1-11, which are interesting dates since the pictures were received at the government offices on May 8.
May 11 might be too late because he was arrested that day so he couldn’t continue his violent criminal activities, but the question is what he did already on May 1 that they managed to uncover?
Was the protonmail address created on that date, or was the Grndr profile open and the pictures downloaded then?
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/malmer-stenergard-en-oerhort-tung-dag
The name has already been published on alternative sites, so nothing to expose – the person also fits the description of where he worked as the media immediately pointed out in their articles – it wasn’t very difficult to put that puzzle together, and now even the population register is updated.
The account on Flashback that revealed the name of the deceased was registered in 2021 and hasn’t written anything except the name of the deceased diplomat in a post – a burner account.
Oisin knows the residential address, and that was enough information to figure it out.
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/a/bmvRe5/ar-det-har-bilden-av-sapos-fiasko
What Oisin is doing, and perhaps also what the Facebook account that blinked did, is leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for the diggers to throw themselves over and unravel so that the media can refer to information from others when they want to proceed with information they already know.
Description of the arrest –
“The police officers who enter his home and arrest him have not identified themselves as police officers, not even spoken Swedish. At first, he thinks that someone is breaking the door to rob him,” says Anton Strand, the man’s lawyer.”
The police officers shout in English until he is sitting arrested in the car according to the lawyer.
The raid takes place in the middle of the night, and the door is smashed in with the frame and all.
The diplomat shares an address with a man from Asia in the population register, but he is actually separated from the person in question – they do not live together, and as far as public records are concerned, the deceased was single.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/anhallande-havt-i-arende-om-spioneri
If it had been the diplomat’s name in the email, wouldn’t SĂPO have acted earlier than after three days?
Three days before the arrest feels like about the time it takes to do forensics, but Protonmail is supposed to be impossible to hack?
If you google around, Protonmail has previously disclosed data, and in this case, it is being investigated as a threat to national security/espionage, so a quite serious crime.
At the arrest, SĂPO presumably confiscated the phone and computer.
According to SVT, the email address was terminated before May 12, and one measure would be to close the account as soon as the images are sent?
If Protonmail did not provide them with the information, how did they then find the deceased diplomat?
One possibility could be that Thyberg had just closed the Grndr account and not “several years ago” as he claimed – and that SĂPO managed to go that route to see who downloaded the images?
The man is arrested for espionage but was downgraded to reasonably suspected and released after three days, with computers and phones seized, then he dies.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgifter-svensk-diplomat-dod-misstanktes-for-spioneri
“The news of the diplomat being found dead came on Friday morning. This just days after the same diplomat had been detained from the weekend until Wednesday. However, the diplomat is still suspected and under investigation.”
Then two conflicting pieces of information –
-The diplomat was temporarily in Sweden – “the diplomat was in his 50s and had been employed at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for a large part of his professional life. When he was arrested in his home in central Stockholm, he was temporarily back in Sweden from a rotational assignment in the country where he is stationed.”
-another rumor circulating is that he was between assignments and serving his time at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, it’s a rumor at best.
What indicates that the police do not believe he is an international master spy?
He is arrested, released immediately, and when he dies, the police are quick to say that there is no evidence of a crime.
If they had found his WhatsApp to GRU, he would not have been released – that “45-year-old spy” who was arrested a while ago was remanded, presumably after 14 days.
https://www.svd.se/a/8wr1Qr/misstankt-spion-omhaktad-av-tingsratten
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