However, German authorities are continuing their own investigation. Russia accuses Sweden of covering up those responsible for the sabotage against the gas pipelines and the international community of keeping silent about what happened.
The Swedish Public Prosecution Service said on Wednesday that it had closed the investigation into the recorded explosions September 2022 in the gas pipes Nordstroom 1 and 2a sabotage that caused a major gas leak in the Baltic Sea seven months after the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine.
The preliminary investigation launched by Swedish prosecutors, who described the event as “serious sabotage”, has ended, as confirmed by the prosecutor Mats Ljungkvist it’s a statement.
In this sense, he pointed out that there are no indications of participation in the attacks by the Swedish government or citizens of that country, describing the investigation as “exhaustive and systematic.” “We can only say that Swedish jurisdiction has nothing to do with this,” he claimed.
However, German authorities are continuing their own investigation. “Due to the level of secrecy that exists when it comes to cooperation in the legal field, I cannot comment further on this,” said Ljungkvist.
On September 26, 2022, three of the four lines of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines recorded an explosion during their passage through the waters of the Baltic Sea, near a Danish island and off the coast of Sweden.
The Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Yuri Kokovhas accused Sweden of covering up those responsible for the sabotage against Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines following the decision by the Scandinavian country’s public prosecutor’s office to close the investigation without identifying those responsible.
“The main goal from the beginning of this investigation was and remains to conceal the real circumstances and evidence of what happened so that the true masterminds and executors of this unprecedented terrorist attack cannot be identified,” he told Russian press. to the Interfax agency.
According to Kokov, “Sweden was expected to stop the investigation into the explosions in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.” “In reality, they know very well who the conductor of the orchestra was and are crudely trying to hide the real perpetrator,” he added.
The deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council noted that Sweden will continue to divert the attention of the international community by “inventing the most imaginative versions” to buy time.
Russian authorities have accused the international community of remaining silent about the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, the attacks that took place in the Baltic Sea in September 2022, and have emphasized that the “big loser” is Germany, which expects the country ‘will take action’. as soon as possible.
Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri Peskovthus indicated that it is “significant” that Sweden has decided to close the investigation into the attacks and pointed out that “Germany is the one that has lost a very important asset” since “there were German companies that participated in the attacks”. company in charge of managing the pipes blown up as a result of the terrorist sabotage in question.
In this sense, he emphasized that “a lot of data has been published about who might be behind this, so the decision (to close the investigation) is remarkable.” “It’s remarkable that it stopped like this,” he said.
Source: EITB
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