The Appeals Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw sent a case against a citizen of Belarus Yuri K., who is suspected of espionage, to court. He may be sentenced to up 10 years in prison.
“Yuri K. says in letters from the detention center that he was not a spy. However, according to the Internal Security Agency (Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego, ABW), earlier he did everything to make it clear that he was fulfilling intelligence tasks,” Polish media report with reference to an anonymous source in the ABW.
Any further details of the case against Yuri K. are still not available for journalists.
Twice double spy
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The spy scandal involving Belarusians flared up a year ago. Alyaksandr Lyanyuk, a citizen of Belarus, who was leading the Polish military intelligence by the nose for years.
Poland considered him their source in the Belarusian secret services and paid him over $ 300,000 for information. However, the data provided by him were false. According to investigators, Lyanyuk repeatedly reported to Minsk what information the Polish intelligence wanted to get.
The crime came out into the open after the Military Information Service in Poland was closed down and Polish secret services studied the information obtained from the Belarusian ‘sources’.
Мultivector KGB
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In 2014 the ABW published an annual report saying that the most active spies in Poland are employees of the Belarusian KGB and the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (FSB).
Belarusian spies focus on the field of economy. They are ‘in search of markets for Belarusian goods, companies that are willing to invest in Belarus, as well as the possibility of obtaining funds from EU assistance programs’.
The Polish vector is one of the priorities for the Belarusian secret services. “The intellingence of Belarus was trying to get information about such fields as Polish arms sector, the functioning of the Polish army, the structure of Poland’s internal security,” the report says.
