A 27-year-old man employed by the Municipality of Copenhagen is facing charges for allegedly sharing sensitive information with members of the criminal underworld, linking him to an attempted murder in Herning last year. The man appeared in court for a preliminary hearing on Wednesday.

The charges include complicity in the attempted murder, as he is accused of providing the target’s address and personal identification number to another user via Signal. Authorities claim this constitutes participation in the crime. The defendant denies all guilt.

The attempted murder occurred in June of the previous year and involved two Swedish girls, aged 14 and 15 at the time. They traveled from Sweden armed with a pistol to the victim’s residence. The attempt failed because the intended target was not home.

One of the girls, now 16, has been sentenced in absentia earlier this summer. The other girl was below the age of criminal responsibility at the time of the crime and therefore cannot be prosecuted.

Two other men are also implicated in the case. A 28-year-old man confessed to coordinating the attempted murder and was imprisoned in January. A 23-year-old Swedish man is also charged with helping to plan the crime and is currently in custody. The 23-year-old also faces charges for allegedly recruiting Swedish teenagers on five separate occasions to commit murder in Denmark.

In addition to the attempted murder charge, the 27-year-old municipal employee is accused of complicity in extortion by sharing information about potential victims via Signal and Telegram on 66 occasions, a charge he also denies. He partially admits to a third charge of unauthorized access to the personal identification numbers of 1,742 people. The National Unit for Special Crime (NSK) is leading the investigation into the 27-year-old’s case, who was apprehended on Wednesday morning.

Due to a name ban, the 27-year-old’s identity remains protected, and the preliminary hearing was conducted behind closed doors.