The head of Sida, Sweden’s foreign aid agency, Jakob Granit, will be summoned to appear at a parliamentary hearing following revelations that his organization gave millions of dollars to a Palestinian group with ties to Hamas, a senior lawmaker in Stockholm said on Sunday.

Mattias Karlsson of the right-wing Sweden Democrats party, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Swedish Parliament, announced the move in the Expressen newspaper.

The hearing is intended to answer questions on whether funding by Sida for a group called the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) went to Hamas.

“Either Sida has not had control or they have actively turned a blind eye to the dangers. In both cases, it is unacceptable,” wrote Karlsson. Either way, “this is a national scandal,” he said

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