Employees of the Internal Security Agency detained 16 members of a spy network working for Russia in Poland.
Polish Intelligence Services Deputy Minister-Coordinator Stanislav Zharin said in an interview today that the country’s counterintelligence officers have broken one of Russia’s spy networks. As part of this case, the Poles detained 16 people associated with Russian intelligence.
“The Internal Security Agency managed not only to identify and stop spies, but also to investigate and reveal the method of action used by the Russians in this type of activity against Poland,” said Zharin on the air of Polish Radio .
Belarusian who worked for Moscow
The last agent from this network was arrested on August 1. It turned out to be 39-year-old Belarusian citizen Mikhail A, who lived in Russia for many years. According to intelligence services, the man worked in Moscow in 2008-2010 and then moved to St. Petersburg. At the same time, he served a six-year term in the Russian Federation.
“The man maintains contacts with Russian citizens whom he met in St. Petersburg and Crimea,” the statement of the service of the coordinating minister of special services said.
Mikhail A. arrived in Poland in 2021 and contacted the spy network coordinator.
“The information received indicates that for the performance of tasks directed against the internal security and interests of Poland, he received a systematic reward,” the intelligence service said.
The investigation claims that the Belarusian was very careful during the performance of assigned tasks, which made it difficult to recognize and recognize him.
“He often changed the way of communication and destroyed the traces of his criminal activities, and he realized that for the intelligence work he did in Poland, he would be punished in the form of imprisonment,” the department added.
Agent work
After the arrest, the man was taken to the Lublin prosecutor’s office, where he was charged with espionage.
The prosecutor’s office clarified that the suspect’s activity was to collect information about critical infrastructure facilities and carry out sabotage activities aimed at destabilizing the political situation in Poland.
Belarusians also took over military installations and ports and carried out propaganda activities. He systematically informs customers about intelligence results.
The court, at the request of the Lublin prosecutor’s office and out of fear of the suspect’s escape, applied a measure of deterrence to Russian espionage in the form of detention.
Work against Kyiv
In total, 15 agents were detained from this spy network, among them Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians. All of them have been arrested by court order.
The main activity of the network is to identify military installations and critical infrastructure in Poland, monitoring and documenting the transport of military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Also, the group is supposed to blow up trains with humanitarian aid for Ukraine, burn property and vehicles, and beat people. Members of the group were also supposed to carry out propaganda activities aimed at inciting feelings in Poland against the Ukrainian people and helping Kyiv.
The Homeland Security Agency says that the case their employees are currently working on is dynamic and evolving.
“The ABW has continued its activities aimed at establishing the details of the activities of the spy network and identifying all the people associated with it. Further arrests have not been ruled out,” the agency said in a statement.
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Source: korrespondent
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