Two former AIVD security service officials have been found not guilty of leaking state secrets to a Telegraaf newspaper journalist.

The public prosecution department had called for up to three years in jail. It claims the two passed on confidential information about the Dutch position on Iraq and security during a visit by the Dalai Lama.
The information led to two Telegraaf exclusives.
In their efforts to trace the leaks, the security service tapped the phones of several Telegraaf journalists, which was ruled illegal in court last year.
The court said that the evidence against the two had been obtained as a result of the illegal taps, and therefore is inadmissible in court.
Exclusives
In one exclusive, the paper accused AIVD staff of simply copying reports about Iran’s alleged weapons of mass destruction from Britain’s M16 and other foreign security services, without any independent verification of the facts. The Netherlands supported the invasion of Iraq partly on the basis of AIVD reports.
The second focused on claims that threats had been made against the Dalai Lama during his visit to the Netherlands in June 2009.
The public prosecution department is to appeal against the decision.