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Sergey Skvortsov, who was arrested last November near Stockholm, was alleged to have undertaken “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power,” namely the United States.

Sergei Skvortsov exported technology to Russia and prosecutors said he was a serious security threat.

A Stockholm court will on Thursday hand down its verdict against a Russian-Swede accused of passing Western technology to Russia's military, with prosecutors seeking a five-year sentence."He is a procurement agent for the Russian military complex and its intelligence unit GRU," prosecutor Henrik Olin told the Stockholm district court in his final arguments in late September.

A Stockholm court will on Thursday hand down its verdict against a Russian-Swede accused of passing Western technology to Russias military, with prosecutors seeking a five-year sentence.

Sergei Skvortsov exported technology to Russia and prosecutors said he was a serious security threat.

A Stockholm court on Thursday acquitted a Russian-Swede accused of passing Western technology to Russia's military, ruling that while he did export the material his actions did not amount to espionage.

Swedish prosecutors on Thursday called for a Russian-Swede to be sentenced to up to five years in prison for allegedly passing Western technology to Russia's military.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The trial opened Monday of a Russia-born Swedish citizen charged with collecting information for the Russian military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade.

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Skvortsov, a Russian-born Swedish man, was arrested last year by Swedish police on charges of espionage.