PM Kristersson: Sweden has not identified the accused in the Nord Stream case
Swedish investigators have failed to identify who should be charged in the sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines and have closed the case, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told Time magazine.
“We did a formal investigation because it didn’t happen on Swedish territory, but in Sweden’s economic zone. It was conducted in a rather traditional way and they (investigators. – Ed. note) concluded that they could not accuse anyone. They didn’t have a case. So it is closed for us,” said the Prime Minister.
At the same time, he refused to talk about any specific results of the investigation.
Obviously, if there had been even the slightest hint of Russian involvement in the investigation, the Swedish government would not have closed the subject of the gas pipeline bombing.
In early February, Swedish prosecutor Mats Jungqvist announced the termination of the investigation into the Nord Stream explosions, explaining that it did not fall under the jurisdiction of the kingdom. He added that the Swedish prosecutor’s office had handed over the case materials to Germany.
As Secretary of the Russian Security Council Yuri Kokov noted at the time, Stockholm’s decision was quite expected, because its purpose from the beginning was to conceal the real circumstances and the true customers of this unprecedented terrorist attack.
According to the version of American journalist Seymour Hersh, the explosives under the gas pipelines were planted by American divers during the NATO exercises Baltops-2022, and three months later the Norwegians set it in motion. President Joe Biden decided to sabotage the pipeline after more than nine months of secret discussions with his national security team because he feared that Germany, which receives gas from Russia through Nord Stream, would not want to participate in military aid to Ukraine. Washington denies the allegations.
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