Stockholm, Sweden – A Swedish prosecutor has dropped an investigation of the exiled leader of the Aceh rebel movement, saying the aging Hasan Tiro no longer controls the group, news reports said Sunday.

Tiro, 80, and two other exiled leaders of the Free Aceh Movement are accused by Indonesia of staging assassinations, bombings and kidnappings.

Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand told newspaper Dagens Nyheter that Tiro's "executive capacity" was limited because of his ill health. Malik Mahmud, 64, and Zaini Abdullah, 63, are still being investigated, Lindstrand said. All three live in exile in Sweden.

Chief Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand was not reachable for a comment but a spokesman for di Tiro confirmed the report. "He looks very positive on the decision," Muhammad Hussin Siarif told The Associated Press.

Indonesia's government asked Sweden to investigate the three leaders, saying they were behind a September 2000 blast at the Jakarta Stock Exchange that killed 15 people, as well as several other bombings, two assassinations, six arson attacks at schools and 243 kidnappings.

The Free Aceh Movement has denied the accusations, saying its actions are confined the province of 4.1 million people on the northern tip of Sumatra Island. All three men are Swedish citizens and cannot be extradited.

The Acehnese have been fighting for independence on-and-off since the 1870s, when their homeland was invaded by Dutch troops and incorporated into their East Indies colony, which in 1945 gained independence as Indonesia.