Embarrassing incident
Sweden’s forgetful security advisor resigns
01/27/2025 – 7:52 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Hendrik Laderholm has often forgotten important things in unfavorable places. His recent gunningness is now getting the office for Sweden’s national security advisor.
In Sweden, the national security advisor Hendrik Laderholm resigned after he forgot as a secret documents in a hotel. The 61-year-old Laderholm said on Monday that he had been informed about the admission of police investigations against him in the matter and agreed with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson that he could no longer fulfill his “professional duties” under these circumstances.
Laderholm had left the documents in a safe in the conference room of a hotel. As the newspaper “Dagen’s Nyheter” reported, cleaning staff found the documents that a colleague Laderholms finally accepted it. This photo, which is widespread on X, shows Laderholm (left) together with Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson:
It is not the first embarrassing incident for Laderholm: According to “Dagen’s Nyheter”, the former ambassador and rector of the University of the Swedish Army had forgotten his mobile phone overnight in the Hungarian message in December 2022. The mishap happened to him when Hungary just blocked Sweden’s NATO. In January 2023, Laderholm then forgot a notebook after an interview at the Swedish broadcaster SR.
In 2024, according to the newspaper “Aftonbladet”, Laderholm also traveled to his girlfriend in Berlin – and calculated around 800 euros in travel expenses as a business trip at the expense of taxpayers.
Landerholm’s appointment to the security advisor has already been controversial in Sweden because he has been friends with Prime Minister Kristersson since childhood. KRISTSSON had defended his security advisor for a long time, but on Monday he admitted that Landerholm was no longer able to continue working in his position.