{"id":1698199,"date":"2022-10-17T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1698199"},"modified":"2022-10-17T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T16:50:35","slug":"sweden-opts-out-of-joint-probe-into-nord-stream-leak-refuses-to-share-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sweden-opts-out-of-joint-probe-into-nord-stream-leak-refuses-to-share-findings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Opts Out of Joint Probe Into Nord Stream Leak, Refuses to Share Findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsweden-opts-out-of-joint-probe-into-nord-stream-leak-refuses-to-share-findings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1698199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sweden has opted out of a proposal to set up a formal joint investigation team with Denmark and Germany to investigate the recent leaks of the\u00a0Russian-owned pipelines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nord-stream\">Nord Stream<\/a> 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p>Mats Ljungqvist, the Swedish prosecutor involved in the country\u2019s criminal investigation of the leaks in the Swedish economic zone, told Reuters that the country wouldn\u2019t join a joint investigative team from the judicial cooperation agency Eurojust.<\/p>\n<p>According to Eurojust, a joint team is \u201cone of the most advanced tools used in international cooperation in criminal matters, comprising a legal agreement between competent authorities of two or more States for the purpose of carrying out criminal investigations.\u201d Such teams are established for a fixed period that\u2019s typically 12 to 24 months.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so would mean that Sweden would have to share confidential information from its Nord Stream probe that has been withheld.\u00a0Ljungqvist told Reuters that the information subject to confidentiality is \u201cdirectly linked to national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ljungqvist\u2019s remarks come after German news website Der Spiegel reported a similar situation, citing\u00a0unnamed German security sources. It said that Sweden had rejected the idea of sharing information with Germany and Denmark, saying that\u00a0\u201cthe confidentiality level of the results of its investigation was too high to share them with other states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ljungqvist noted that\u00a0outside of the proposed formal investigation team, Sweden had otherwise been cooperating with Denmark and Germany in investigating the Nord Stream leak.<\/p>\n<p>Per Reuters, a Swedish Security Services spokesperson said the security police were cooperating closely with other authorities, also internationally, as part of the Swedish criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A German Interior Ministry spokesperson told reporters on Oct. 14 that the German Federal Police have completed their part of investigating the alleged sabotage on the pipelines and handed over their findings.<\/p>\n<p>Days earlier, on Oct. 11, Sweden\u2019s outgoing Prime Minister\u00a0Magdalena Andersson said that the country can\u2019t share information about its investigation of the Nord Stream leaks with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Sweden, there is secrecy around the preliminary investigation and that also applies in this case,\u201d she said,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-explosions-germany-denmark-6d563e380e6834caff36d7daeb0124d4\">The Associated Press<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, the Swedish Security Service had announced on Oct. 6 that, based on its preliminary investigation, leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/swedish-investigators-find-evidence-of-serious-sabotage-at-nord-stream-pipelines_4779015.html\">likely caused by \u201cserious sabotage\u201d<\/a> and that \u201cdetonations\u201d likely caused the leaks.<\/p>\n<p> 4 Leaks <\/p>\n<p>A total of four leaks were detected on the Nord Stream pipelines\u2014two on Nord Stream 1 and two on Nord Stream 2\u2014in late September, sparking widespread suspicion and concern, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/nato-issues-warning-about-nord-stream-pipeline-sabotage_4764503.html\">including from NATO<\/a>, of sabotage.\u00a0While both Nord Stream pipelines, which travel through the Baltic Sea from\u00a0Russia\u00a0to Germany, weren\u2019t in operation, both were filled with gas that leaked to the surface of the water. Nord Stream 1 had recently stopped supplying gas and Nord Stream 2 never began operating.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth leak,\u00a0off southern Sweden,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/4th-leak-reported-on-nord-stream-pipelines-in-baltic-sea_4764040.html\">was reported by the Swedish coast guard<\/a> on Sept. 29. The earlier three leaks were reported on Sept. 26.\u00a0Nord Stream AG, the operator of the network, issued a statement that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/cannot-rule-out-deliberate-sabotage-to-nord-stream-pipelines-after-unexplained-leaks-denmark-prime-minister_4759548.html\">flagged the close timing<\/a> of the three leaks. It told reporters, \u201cThe destruction that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden has opted out of a proposal to set up a formal joint investigation team with Denmark and Germany to investigate the recent leaks of the\u00a0Russian-owned pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2. Mats Ljungqvist, the Swedish prosecutor involved in the country\u2019s criminal investigation of the leaks in the Swedish economic zone, told Reuters that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1894883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}