In August, the newspaper Dagens industri reported how the Swedish Environmental Crime Agency, EBM, had invested large sums in IT consultants.
In total, the bill had been around 17 million - of which almost 10 million to a single consultant.
This at the same time as the authority was facing an economic crisis and threatening savings.
In connection with the reporting, a manager within EBM must have asked questions to an employee during a conversation over Skype, which the employee perceived as a "fishing" to find out if the employee was the one who spoke to the journalist.
It appears from the documents in the case that SVT has read.
The employee reported the incident to the agency's deputy legal director, who made a report to EBM's Personnel Liability Committee - which has now chosen to hand over the matter to the State Liability Committee, which handles disciplinary matters concerning the state's top executives.
The boss: "Do not know"
It is forbidden for officials in authorities to investigate who has provided information to journalists and EBM has now asked the State Liability Committee to decide whether the case should be handed over to prosecutors.
However, EBM's own preliminary assessment is that there are no grounds for such a notification.
EBM's press service states that it does not comment on individual personnel matters.
The designated manager tells SVT that he has not been confronted with the accusations and therefore cannot comment on them.
On several previous occasions, problems with the work climate at EBM have attracted attention in various media.
In the spring, SVT's Assignment reported on an investigation into how a manager tried to influence the distribution of a prize to a prosecutor who criticized the authority's management, a prosecutor who was later bought out of the authority.
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