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Two Swedish brothers get lengthy sentences in espionage case
short by Indraneel Sen / on Thursday, 19 January, 2023
Two Swedish brothers were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences on Thursday for spying for the Russian military intelligence service GRU. The convicted brothers, who are Iranian by birth, faced charges of gross espionage. The older of them, Peyman Kia, was sentenced to life. The younger one, Payam Kia, was sentenced to nine years and 10 months.