KGB chief: 36 spies exposed in Belarus over 5 years


Валерый Вакульчык

Today the Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) marks the 100th anniversary.

According to the KGB Chief Valery Vakulchyk, over the past five years the Committee ‘stopped intelligence activities’ of 36 agents, 13 of which were criminally prosecuted. One of those sentenced was swapped for two Belarusian citizens convicted abroad.

Foreign intelligence services ‘keep trying’ to recruit citizens of our country, Vakulchyk stressed. In his opinion, Lithuania is acting in a ‘particularly aggressive manner’ and its secret services are making ‘provocations’ that are unacceptable in the civilized world.

This year, a Belarusian citizen recruited by Lithuania’s secret services has been sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment for treason, Vakulchyk said. Another citizen, a former senior officer, was sentenced to 15 years in a meduim-security penal colony.

“Being recruited through blackmail and threats by foreign intelligence, he collected and passed sensitive information constituting state secrets. He tried to involve his former colleagues in illegal activities,” the head of the KGB said.

Moreover, according to Valery Vakulchyk, for the last three years, the agency has solved more than 1,600 corruption crimes.

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