Sweden’s new Nationwide Safety Adviser Tobias Thyberg resigned lower than 24 hours after his appointment on Thursday, following the emergence of “delicate” pictures linked to an previous relationship app profile.
“Shortly after the federal government’s resolution yesterday to nominate Tobias Thyberg, completely new private details about him emerged that was beforehand unknown to the Authorities Workplaces,” Johan Stuart, State Secretary to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, advised POLITICO in an announcement.
Stuart defined that Thyberg admitted Thursday night to failing to reveal info through the recruitment course of that he was obligated to share.
“That is, after all, critical. He has due to this fact determined himself to not take the place. A brand new recruitment course of will now start,” Stuart mentioned, including that Deputy Nationwide Safety Adviser Annika Brändström will serve within the position quickly.
Earlier on Friday, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) reported that Thyberg resigned after the publication had requested him about pictures described as “delicate.”
“These are previous photos from an account I beforehand had on the relationship web site Grindr. I ought to have knowledgeable [the government] about this however I didn’t. I’ve due to this fact mentioned I don’t intend to take up the place as nationwide safety adviser,” Thyberg advised DN.
Thyberg served as Sweden’s ambassador to Afghanistan from 2017 to 2019, ambassador to Ukraine till 2023, and most not too long ago headed the international ministry’s unit for Jap Europe and Central Asia.
Sweden has had solely two nationwide safety advisers so far, each of whom have left the put up beneath uncommon circumstances. Thyberg’s predecessor Henrik Landerholm stepped down in January after a prosecutor launched an investigation into his mishandling of extremely labeled paperwork at a convention heart in 2023.