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Sweden must be well prepared. Even against lies.
This is an opinion piece from the editorial team. Sydsvenskan’s attitude is independently liberal.
It has happened again. Another person with false credentials has reached a high position in the Armed Forces.
According to the resume, he became a fighter pilot at the age of twenty and later retrained as a helicopter pilot. In that role, he is said to have served in the British Navy, where he achieved the rank of Commander-in-Chief. He also describes how he was shot down in Iraq and on social media he has generously shared “memories” of various missions, sometimes even secret ones.
The Royal Navy has no information that someone by the man’s name has served in the navy. The British Air Force, in turn, confirms to DN that the alleged shooting has never taken place.
Did the Armed Forces never do a proper background check?
In any case, it is clear that questions about the man were not raised until the fall of 2019. After an internal investigation, he was bought in the spring and at the end of the summer, the government was informed of his scam.
So the Armed Forces can’t report liars?
Judging from DN’s review, in the latter case a few phone calls to the UK should have been enough. And in the above case, two officers claim that they raised the alarm that something was wrong for several years before the scam was revealed.
“You don’t have a mythomaniac filter.”
You see a system error and therefore expect more similar disclosures.
But as Agrell also points out, the Armed Forces have personal control tools that other employers lack. There is simply no acceptable excuse for lying at a high military level.
Reasonably, it must require more than a few proposed lies to succeed in outwitting the Swedish defense.
