Attorney Thomas Olsson is currently representing a client in another major lawsuit against gang criminals, where he has submitted a request that all evidence consisting of encrochat material be rejected.

- The reason is that we believe that the measure taken to obtain the material has been illegal, he says in tonight's Aktuellt. 

Cracked 2020

The communications service Encrochat, which was popular in organized crime, was hacked by French police in the spring of 2020. For several months, it was possible to collect millions of messages from phones that used the service and could follow in real time what users wrote, no matter what country they were in.  

- Secret data reading has been used against people who are in Sweden.

It is not permitted under either international or Swedish law.

The interception is completely arbitrary and indiscriminate.

"No violation"

But Daniel Larsson, chamber prosecutor at the Swedish Environmental Crime Agency, claims the opposite and is convinced that the evidence will not be rejected.

- You can definitely use it, we have free examination of evidence in Sweden and it is only in extreme exceptional cases that evidence must be rejected.

For example, if it was added through torture.

- Here, French authorities with the support of French law have obtained this information, which Swedish prosecutors then requested to use in Swedish preliminary investigations.

If you use a foreign communication service, you have to reckon with things like this happening, so there is absolutely no violation, says Daniel Larsson.