Intentia, a Swedish IT group, is to file criminal charges today against Reuters after the UK news agency published the company's third-quarter results before they were officially announced last week.

The Swedish company has accused Reuters of breaking into its IT systems without authorisation last Thursday, the day it published the figures.

Reuters also published Q3 figures from three other Nordic companies last week before the results were officially released: Nordea, the region's biggest bank; Fortum, the Finnish energy group; and Sweco, a small Swedish consultancy. - (Financial Times Service)