🇸🇪 Ok so this happened a couple of days ago, so we might be a bit late on the news, but it’s too funny not to post
Sweden’s new National Security Adviser Tobias Thyberg resigned less than 24 hours after his appointment on Thursday, following the emergence of “sensitive” photos linked to an old dating app profile.
“Shortly after the government’s decision to appoint Tobias Thyberg, entirely new personal information about him emerged that was previously unknown to the Government Offices,” Johan Stuart, State Secretary to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, told POLITICO in a statement.
Thyberg served as Sweden’s ambassador to Afghanistan from 2017 to 2019, ambassador to Ukraine until 2023, and most recently headed the foreign ministry’s unit for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Sweden has had only two national security advisers to date, both of whom have left the post under unusual circumstances. Thyberg’s predecessor Henrik Landerholm stepped down in January after a prosecutor launched an investigation into his mishandling of highly classified documents at a conference center in 2023.
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Sweden’s new National Security Adviser Tobias Thyberg resigned less than 24 hours after his appointment on Thursday, following the emergence of “sensitive” photos linked to an old dating app profile.
“Shortly after the government’s decision to appoint Tobias Thyberg, entirely new personal information about him emerged that was previously unknown to the Government Offices,” Johan Stuart, State Secretary to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, told POLITICO in a statement.
Thyberg served as Sweden’s ambassador to Afghanistan from 2017 to 2019, ambassador to Ukraine until 2023, and most recently headed the foreign ministry’s unit for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Sweden has had only two national security advisers to date, both of whom have left the post under unusual circumstances. Thyberg’s predecessor Henrik Landerholm stepped down in January after a prosecutor launched an investigation into his mishandling of highly classified documents at a conference center in 2023.
