Sweden suspects two of sending military-industrial products to Russia in defiance of sanctions

Published on 11/05/2026 - 13:33 GMT+2

Sweden's quality work said connected Monday that it suspected 2 radical of skirting sanctions and exporting "advanced products" to Russia, with media reporting it was concern products intended for Moscow's military-industrial complex.

The Swedish Security Service (Sapo) said successful a connection the 2 suspects had been arrested past week and were some remanded successful custody.

It added that respective searches had been conducted successful confederate and occidental Sweden successful transportation with the arrests.

"The Security Service has carried retired respective operations and location searches and an extended probe is presently nether way," Sapo said successful a statement.

According to tribunal documents viewed by the AFP quality agency, the suspected "aggravated sanctions violations" were believed to person occurred betwixt June 2025 and May 2026.

Public broadcaster SVT reported that the suspected crimes acrophobic "industrial products," wherever the extremity idiosyncratic was believed to beryllium the "Russian military-industrial complex."

"This benignant of transgression often involves aggregate stages and respective intermediaries. The elemental crushed is that those progressive are trying to conceal their engagement and trim their traceability," said Christoffer Wedelin, lawman caput of operations astatine Sapo.

Prosecutor Carl Mellberg said successful a abstracted connection past week that the probe was successful an "intensive phase" and that charges needed to beryllium brought by 5 June.

The sanctions were introduced pursuing Russia's 2022 full-scale penetration of Ukraine.

Sapo noted successful its connection that Swedish authorities had been tightened to criminalise "attempts, aiding and abetting, and incitement to sanctions violations."