1. The defendant is accused of having negotiated with representatives of Chinese interests.
According to the indictment, Anna Lindstedt joined Gui Minhai's daughter Angela Gui with two business contacts from China, who have good relations with the Chinese Communist Party, to resolve the matter with the imprisoned publisher. But according to Angela Gui, conditions were set for her father's release. She should have been urged to make sure that criticism of how the Chinese handled the case was silenced.
The prosecutor claims that the two businessmen represented the interests of the Chinese state. Anna Lindstedt denies that this was a negotiation.
2. The defendant is accused of acting unlawfully outside the scope of the instructions given to her.
According to the indictment, Anna Lindstedt deliberately, with intent, acted on her own without informing her superiors at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of her plans to resolve the Gui Minhai case. The Foreign Ministry claims that she has been instructed to release the case. Anna Lindstedt does not claim to have received such a message. She believes that she informed the Foreign Ministry in an email about her meeting with Angela Gui, and that an ambassador has far-reaching powers to act on her own.
3. Her behavior is suspected to have endangered Sweden's peaceful relationship with China.
The prosecutor wants to try to prove that Anna Lindstedt's actions have led to a danger to the national security. One businessman - Kevin Liu - has used several different identities and been denied entry into Sweden. The question is whether China exposed Sweden to an impact operation, and how Lindstedt's actions affected the already frosty relations between the countries.