He graduated from the Swedish Armed Forces School for Secondary Education in Uppsala and became an officer.

[5] Ströberg claimed he met Larsson in connection with that he had been assaulted by unknown men at Djurgården in Stockholm.

Ströberg further claimed that after some time he received a letter from Larsson[6] (who Ströberg said had a "foreign appearance and spoke broken Swedish") because Larsson needed help to collect a letter at the Central Post Office in Stockholm.

[8] Two members of the court were divergent and considered the overall evidence was not of sufficient strength and that, even if it was unreasonable, could not be ruled out that Ströberg's story was truthful.

The case was heard in the Svea Court of Appeal for a new trial in which the facts were considered compatible with both that Ströberg was the perpetrator and the victim of a conspiracy.

He stated that a copy of a report he wrote to his clients at the Security Service detailing his work at the Soviet Embassy suddenly showed up in the mail at his workplace at the embassy - with a handwritten note in which the signatory called themselves "Sven-Roland Larsson" and requested money for additional information.

[4] Savemark had after seeing a television feature about the case in 1985 contacted the Security Police and told that he very well knew the name "Sven-Roland Larsson".

[10] Among other things, new information from the Security Service's archive was invoked which was not raised in the preliminary investigation.

[9] The Supreme Court also stated that "given that it is almost 30 years since the incident took place, the prerequisites to now meaningfully implement a new trial and to take it further is also very limited".