Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist announced on Friday that the investigation against Shiyar Ali is being closed after nearly a year. The decision comes despite police finding a document with secret information during a house search at Ali's home in Gävle. Ljungqvist stated: 'I have decided to drop the preliminary investigation regarding this suspicion because I cannot prove when or how the document was disclosed to the politician.' Ali, a Swedish representative for the Kurdish self-government in Syria, has denied the allegations.
Ali was arrested on May 11, 2025, when the Swedish Security Service raided his home. According to Gefle Dagblad, officers pretended to be a package delivery service to get Ali outside before surrounding him. The Security Service also arrested another person in connection with the operation, but that individual is no longer suspected.
The legal focus now shifts to a government office official who has been formally charged. According to the indictment, the man took secret documents to his home and summer cottage. Ljungqvist said: 'I believe it is a matter of information with a very high protection value that the accused man has unauthorizedly dealt with by taking home and then retaining documents with secret information in his home and summer cottage.' On the same day as Ali's arrest, a diplomat was also arrested in Stockholm, but their status remains unclear.
The specific secret information involved has not been disclosed, and it is unknown why the investigation against Ali was dropped despite the discovery of a secret document in his home.