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| Russian citizen convicted of espionage in Poland |
| 2024-04-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In Poland, a court sentenced a Russian citizen to 2.5 years in prison on charges of “espionage for Russian intelligence,” the Gdansk district prosecutor’s office announced on April 25. “On April 16, the district court in Gdansk convicted a citizen of the Russian Federation accused of spying for Russian intelligence,” the statement said. In addition, as part of this criminal case, three Polish citizens were convicted of corruption crimes. The Russian citizen was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison. According to the prosecutor's office, the Russian citizen legally resided and carried out commercial activities in Poland. The department claims that the man allegedly “established and maintained contacts with the Polish military” by participating in military-historical reconstruction communities, and “used these contacts to collect information on the deployment of units of the Polish army.” As Regnum reported, on December 19, 2023, a court in Poland found 14 citizens of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia guilty of spying for Russia. They were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 13 months to six years. Also in December, a Russian citizen was expelled from Poland due to suspicions of connections with Russian intelligence services. In July, Russian hockey player Maxim Sergeev, who played for a local club, was detained in the republic. In general, Poland regularly claims that it has identified “spies.” Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Poland was gripped by an attack of Russophobia. In his opinion, the West is facilitating this in order to set the Poles against Russia. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, commenting on the spy scandals in Poland, noted that Russophobia and spy mania reign in this country. She noted that against this background, the Polish authorities stopped fulfilling their obligations under international law. On March 19, the press service of the German prosecutor's office charged a Bundeswehr soldier with espionage for Russia. The man was detained back in August 2023; he was an employee of the Federal Office of Armaments, Information Technologies and Applications, which, among other things, deals with the procurement of military products for the army. |
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