http://livingtext.blogspot.ca/2013/02/rwandas-planned-assassinations-in-sweden.html
'Banana code' cited in refugee spying charges
8 Feb 2013, 14:32
A Burundian national has been charged for using coded messages about
bananas to pass along intelligence on Rwandan dissidents living in
Sweden, and faces up to four years in prison if convicted.

The 44-year-old man was arrested in Örebro, central Sweden, in May last year.
Between 2010 and 2011, the man had collected information "secretly and
fraudulently" about Rwandans living in Sweden, prosecutor Ronnie
Jacobsson said.
The man spied on dissidents including journalists, writers, and those
active in Rwandan associations.
According to prosecutors, the 44-year-old had been "given the mission
from high-ranking military officials in Rwanda to gather information
about dissidents' political opinions, including where they live in
Sweden, their telephone numbers, and other background information".
He then coded the intelligence before sending it back to
representatives of the Rwandan regime, prosecutors claimed, based on
evidence gathered from intercepted phone calls between the 44-year-old
and Rwandan representatives.
Prosecutors believe messages about bananas were part of the man's tradecraft.
"The man who eats bananas will guide you," was said in one telephone
conversation.
"Go to the place to meet the man who will eat a lot of bananas. Focus
on the bananas," was other instruction to the 44-year-old suspect.
"Tomorrow I'm going to look for the banana market, but I don't have
enough oil," he wrote in a text message.
The man claims, however, that he was interested in importing bananas.
"He denies what has been said, but I haven't had time to analyze the
indictment closer and can't give any further comments," the
44-year-old's lawyer Magnus Arntell told TT.
The man risks up to four years in prison, with the prosecutor aiming
to have him deported from Sweden.
The man was held on remand for two months last year, and upon release
was prevented from leaving the country.
Sweden's foreign ministry has previously accused Rwandan intelligence
agencies of being active in Sweden.
A 2010 foreign ministry report called Rwandan intelligence agencies
"goal-oriented", saying they use "basically method available to
aggressive services" in carrying out orders from political powers in
Rwanda.
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