Sweden charges man arrested last year in predawn raid with spying for Russia

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Russian-born Swedish citizen has been charged with collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade. Sweden’s Prosecution Authority said Monday that 60-year-old Sergey Skvortsov is accused of “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power.” Prosecutor Henrik Olin later said the other foreign power was the United States. Skvortsov and his wife were arrested in November in a predawn operation in Nacka, outside Stockholm. Swedish media earlier reported that elite police rappelled from two Black Hawk helicopters to arrest the couple. Skvortsov has been held in custody since his arrest and denies any wrongdoing. The trial is to start Sept. 4.