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MINSK, 11 December (BelTA) – The attempt by Polish special services to recruit a Belarusian diplomat is an outrageous incident, a crime against the state, which will be given a thorough legal assessment, Chief of the Investigative Office of Belarus’ State Security Committee (KGB) Konstantin Bychek told the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA has learned.
Polish special services failed to recruit a Belarusian diplomat in Moldova. They were ready to offer €100,000.
“This is another attempt by the Polish special services to cover up their unprofessionalism in view of several high-profile failures of their agents in the territory of the Republic of Belarus. The attempt to recruit an active diplomat is an outrageous incident. Therefore, it will definitely be followed by an appropriate response from the Belarusian side. And given that the actions of the Polish special services contain signs of a crime against the state, the KGB Investigative Office will give them a thorough legal assessment,” Konstantin Bychek said.
Earlier, the Belarus 1 TV channel aired the film “Belarus' KGB counterintelligence against Polish special services”. The film pointed out that a number of media organizations assumed that Belarus is going to exchange foreign citizens imprisoned for espionage in Belarus for Belarusian citizens who are in prisons abroad.
“Indeed, a large number of foreign citizens are serving sentences in prisons in the Republic of Belarus, including citizens of Poland, the Baltic states, and other Western countries for collaborating with special services of foreign states. These individuals were sentenced for espionage or intelligence activities. Their guilt was established by courts based on irrefutable evidence, including their confessions. It's true, foreign special services regularly approach us with proposals to exchange these individuals for citizens of the Republic of Belarus who are in their prisons. They offer robbers, rapists, drug addicts, swindlers for exchange. In this regard, the official position of the KGB is that we do not exchange anyone. There are no citizens of the Republic of Belarus in Poland, or in the Baltic states, or in other Western countries who collaborated with the KGB, were convicted for this, and are serving sentences there,” Konstantin Bychek said.
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