Sweden has rejected plans to set up a formal joint investigation team with Denmark and Germany to look into the recent ruptures of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, a Swedish prosecutor investigating the leaks said.
Mats Ljungqvist, the prosecutor involved in Sweden’s criminal investigation into the Nord Stream leaks in the Swedish economic zone, said Sweden was already cooperating with Denmark and Germany on the matter.
He said Sweden had rejected the proposal for a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from the judicial co-operation agency Eurojust because such a joint investigation would include legal agreements under which Sweden would have to share information from its own investigation that it deemed confidential.
“This is because there is information in our investigation that is subject to confidentiality directly linked to national security,” Ljungqvist told Reuters.
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He made his comment after a report in the German weekly Der Spiegel on Friday that Sweden had rejected plans for a joint investigation with Denmark and Germany, citing German security sources.
A Swedish Security Services spokesperson said the security police were cooperating closely with other authorities, also internationally, as part of the Swedish criminal investigation.
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