On Friday at 11 am, the verdict against Henrik Landerholm will face trial after forgoting classified documents at Gällöfsta courtyard in March 2023.
During the trial, a total of nine witnesses were heard, including the Government Office’s security director – and a witness from Must with a secret identity, “FM101”.
A central question is what actually happened to the documents – how they were handled and whether the information in the legal sense is disclosed. Interrogation with the Court’s staff are important parts of the prosecutor’s evidence. But two employees have submitted contradictory information during the process.
Gällöfsta’s CEO stated In her first hearing with the Security Police, in January 2025, that she called Landerholm the same day he forgot the documents.
“I talk to him and say that” you forgot a folder here with us, “she said, describing how Landerholm replied that he would send someone to pick up the documents.
When Säpo asked if she also emailed about the incident, she replied emphatically:
– Absolutely not. But please. Absolutely not.
It turned out not to be true. The next day, the Security Police found a sent email in the trash in her email account. The e-mail went to an IT security company where she talked about the incident and sought contact information.
It also changed the timeline in the investigation – the documents were not picked up immediately, but instead remained in the courtyard for two days.
In the same hearing, the CEO also said that she put the documents on her desk – in an “unlocked” office.
During the August trial she changed her story: The documents were stored in a desk box in a “locked” office. The CEO had put them in an envelope she licked again.
However, that memory picture was not shared by the official from the Government Offices who retrieved the documents. He stated that the envelope was not sealed.
Another employee at Gällöfsta has changed his story. In interrogation in January this year, she described to Säpo that she came to Landerholm’s hotel room and found a folder in the open safe.
In the trial, she no longer remembered the situation:
– I can’t remember if the maid came with my papers to me or if I followed his room.
“I have different memories,” she continued.
Gällöfsta is not which courtyard any time. The business is run on behalf of a foundation, where the chairman is appointed by the government. The Government Offices, the Swedish Armed Forces and other authorities with classified operations have recurring conferences there.
DN has sought the staff with questions about why they left different stories about how the documents were handled. They have not wanted to be interviewed.
Carelessness with secret task is an unusual crime classification. Perhaps the most notable case concerns the IT scandal at the Swedish Transport Agency in the summer of 2017 when the then Director General Maria Ågren received daily fines. However, the case was never tried in court – she acknowledged a crime and received a criminal offense.
Henrik Landerholm denies crime.
– It’s human to forget. Everyone knows that stress causes you to forget things that you think from time to time is incomprehensible to forgot, said his defense lawyer Johan Eriksson during the trial.
