A 27-year-old Belarusian citizen has been charged with working for a foreign intelligence service and preparing acts of sabotage in eastern Poland, prosecutors said on Monday.
The National Public Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw. Photo: Paweł Supernak/PAP
The man, identified only as Vitalij S. under Polish privacy laws, was allegedly preparing to set fire to a warehouse in the eastern Lublin region, according to Przemysław Nowak, a spokesman for the National Public Prosecutor’s Office.
He was detained in Warsaw last week by officers from the Lublin branch of Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW).
Prosecutors said the suspect collected information on the warehouse, filming and photographing the facility before handing the material over to foreign intelligence operatives.
„Based on the evidence, including classified material, prosecutors charged Vitalij S. with acting on behalf of a foreign intelligence service and preparing sabotage operations involving arson of a warehouse in the Lublin province,” Nowak said.
During questioning, the man admitted to the charges, prosecutors said.
A court has ordered him held in custody for three months.
Plotting acts of sabotage or diversion on behalf of a foreign intelligence service carries a maximum penalty of up to eight years in prison under Polish law, state news agency PAP reported.
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Source: IAR, PAP