Former defence minister questioned on Saudi weapons affair

Sweden's former defence minister Sten Tolgfors will sit before the Parliamentary Committee on the Constitution (KU) today to provide his version of events involving secret plans for the illegal financing and construction of an advanced weapons factory in the Saudi Arabian desert.Previously, Peter Eriksson, the chair of the Parliament's constitutional committee, complained it was extremely difficult to investigate the government's role in setting up a weapon's plant in Saudi Arabia.