Poland’s safety company says it has unveiled Russian anti-EU spy ring

Nazim Sheikh

International Courant

WARSAW

Wednesday’s raids on the properties of opposition politicians in Warsaw and Tychy by Poland’s inner safety company (ABW) had been linked to an investigation into Russian espionage towards EU states and our bodies, the spokesman for the minister of coordinator of particular providers stated in a press release on Thursday.

“The actions carried out are the results of the worldwide cooperation of the ABW with various European providers, coordinated particularly with companions from the Czech Republic. Consequently, actions aimed toward organizing pro-Russian initiatives and media campaigns in EU nations had been documented.

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“The intention was to implement the assumptions of the Kremlin’s overseas coverage, together with weakening the place of Poland within the worldwide enviornment, discrediting Ukraine and the picture of European Union our bodies,” Jacek Dobrzynski stated in a press release on the ABW web site.

“With a purpose to obtain the above-mentioned targets, a world web site, voice-of-europe.eu, was launched, the place articles, statements, feedback and interviews with a tendentious, pro-Russian tone associated to the present worldwide state of affairs are revealed, together with the warfare waged by Russia towards Ukraine,” the assertion stated.

“A person positioned amongst Polish and European parliamentarians carried out duties commissioned and financed by collaborators of Russian intelligence, which included, amongst others: propaganda, disinformation actions and political provocations. Their purpose was to construct Russian spheres of affect in Europe,” it added.

The properties of ex-Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro – architect of the Regulation and Justice (PiS)-led authorities’s judicial reforms that drove the EU to withhold bloc funds for Poland – had been included within the swoop. Others had been opposition MPs Michal Wos, Marcin Romanowski, and Dariusz Matecki.

On the finish of January, Prosecutor Common Adam Bodnar established an investigative staff on the Nationwide Prosecutor’s Workplace to look at the administration and spending of cash from the Justice Fund.

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Czech civilian counterintelligence, the Info Safety Service, has additionally revealed a community organized by Russians that attempted to affect the European Parliament elections. In accordance with Czech media, the community allegedly influenced politicians in six nations: Poland, Hungary, Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

The editors of the Denik N web site, who contacted sources accustomed to the matter, wrote that cash was transferred in Prague to politicians of the German AfD. No additional particulars had been supplied for the remaining nations.



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