COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark's public prosecutor is set to formally charge former defence minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen with leaking highly classified state secrets, the justice ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
Frederiksen, who served as defence minister between 2016 and 2019, said in January he had been preliminarily charged with violating a section of the penal code, which includes treason for leaking state secrets.
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