Copenhagen – Denmark’s former intelligence chief Jakob Scharf was sentencedon Friday to four months in prison for having betrayed professional secretsin his memoir.
He revealed confidential information 24 times in the book, in particularregarding theoperations of Danish General Intelligence (PET) and the agency’s methods ofworking, aCopenhagen court said in its judgement seen by AFP.
The judges noted that the revelations in “Seven Years at PET: the Era ofJakob Scharf” were done for commercial reasons.
Scharf, 52, was the head of PET from 2007 to 2013 at a time when Denmarkwas the target of attacks following the publication of caricatures of theProphet Mohammed.
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The book was written with a journalist from Denmark’s newspaper of record,Politiken, which in October 2016 published the memoir to protest againstcensorship, afterauthorities had banned the book from being sold.
The paper’s editor-in-chief in January was fined 50,000 kroner (6,700euros) for having defied the ban. – APP/AFP
