Legal Consequences and Investigations
Jan Guillou, Peter Bratt, Håkan Isacsson and the photographer Ove Holmqvist were arrested October 22, 1973 by the Swedish Security Service on suspicion of espionage. On January 4, 1974 they were sentenced to 1 year prison each. Bratt and Guillou were each sentenced for espionage; Isacsson was sentenced for espionage and accessory to espionage. After an appeal, Guillou's sentence was lessened to 10 months. The Swedish Supreme Court would not consider the case.
The Parliamentary Ombudsman investigated the IB organisation but came to the conclusion that they had not broken any laws. Concerning the break-ins to the leftists' organization, the Ombudsman stated that since the personnel of IB had entered the premises using a key or a lock-pick and had not stolen anything it could not be considered a crime.
In 2002 an extensive public report, named Rikets säkerhet och den personliga integriteten (National security and personal integrity), was published on the operations of IB. This report clarified the details of the case, but it did not have any legal impact.
To date, no member of IB has ever been indicted, nor has any politician or government official, despite the revelation of widespread extra-constitutional and criminal activity.
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