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Date: Thu Nov 13 2008 - 04:21:55 CST

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http://www.thelocal.se/15590/20081110/

The Local
10 Nov 08

The 48-year-old engineer charged with attempting to blackmail Saab
Microwave Systems for 16 million kronor ($2.1 million) was sentenced on
Monday to four years in prison.

He was convicted of serious unauthorized possession of classified
information, bribery, as well as attempted bribery, but was acquitted on
charges of industrial espionage.

The man, who worked as a consultant at Saab Microwave Systems, obtained
various sensitive documents which he threatened to make public of the
company didn’t pay him several million kronor.

According to the prosecutor, the documents contained company secrets
which were also considered classified military secrets.

[...]

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