Bugging devices found in room where top Polish ministers were about to hold meeting
Authorities are determing whether any foreign hand is involved.
Bugging devices were detectedand removed in a room where top Polish ministers, including the prime minister, were due tohold a meetingon Tuesday (May 7).Normally, the weekly cabinet ministeris heldat thePM'soffice in WarsawbutTuesday'smeeting was relocated to the southern city of Katowice as key ministers were already present in thecityfor a major conference. Justahead ofthe meeting,Poland'sState Protection Service spotted the bugging devices during a regular security check. The development comes amid Poland emerging as a hub of spying activity as it becomes a channel for Western military aid to Ukraine.
Polish authorities are now determining who planted the devices there and whether any foreign hand was involved.
“The State Protection Service, in co-operation with the Internal Security Agency, detected and dismantled devices that could be used for eavesdropping,"wrote security services spokesman Jacek Dobrzynski on X."The services are carrying out further activities in this matter."
Followingthe removal ofthe bugging devices, the cabinet meeting went ahead as planned.
Warsaw is concerned about increased espionage activities in the country. On Monday (May 6),it was reportedthat a Polish judge was seeking refuge in Belarus, a key Russian ally.
Tomasz Szmydt, a judge at the Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw, said in a conference at Minsk that his decision to leave Poland was because ofPoland’s“harmful” policy towards Belarus and Russia that could result in armed conflict between the countries.
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Now,investigators are worried the judge couldbe carryingconfidential documents with him.
Also read:Poland joins Germany, Czech Republic in accusing Russia of cyberattacks, says ‘was targeted too’
Commenting on the affair, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski wrote on X:“A traitor. The only question is since when.”
Prime Minister Donald Tusk will now hold a meeting on Wednesday (May 8) to discuss the potential Russian and Belarusian influence in Polish politics in recent years.
“We must be aware that services, in this case Belarusian ones, worked with a person who had direct access to the minister of justice… who had access to various classified documents to which no intelligence service should have had access,”the prime minister told a news conference.
(With inputs from agencies)