Equipment that could be used for wiretapping was discovered this Tuesday, May 7, in a room in Katowice, in southern Poland, where the government was to hold a meeting. Some voices point to the Russian secret services.
A meeting under close surveillance. This Tuesday, May 7, a device that could be used for eavesdropping was discovered by Polish special services in a room in Katowice, a city located in the south of the country. The Polish government was due to meet there today at 10 a.m. in a meeting as part of a major economic congress being held in the city.
“Devices that could have been used to listen to conversations in the room where the Council of Ministers” were thus detected and dismantled, said the https://twitter.com/JacekDobrzynski/status/1787729928173019492 The installation could record both sound and video, he told TVN24 television.
“An investigation is underway. […] It is difficult to say whether these are devices that were installed years ago and were not discovered earlier. or have currently been installed, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz declared on TVN24 television. Refusing to speculate on the possible origin of the installation, he stressed that it was discovered during a routine check carried out before each government meeting.
The head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, Jan Grabiec, explained on Polish television that he had to “take into account that there are forces and entities interested in violating the secrecy of government meetings.” Grzegorz Schetyna, Polish senator and member of the conservative liberal Civic Platform party, maintains that Russian services could be behind these telephone tappings. Poland has indeed been a loyal ally of Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022.
Another espionage investigation launched this Monday
Furthermore, this Monday, the Polish prosecutor’s office announced that it had opened an investigation into espionage after a judge, Tomasz Szmydt, requested political asylum in Belarus. Considered close to the populist nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, which lost power at the end of last year to the current pro-EU coalition, Tomasz Szmydt said he chose to leave his native country due to of a “political disagreement” with the current power and fearing being pursued in a “fabricated espionage case” Poland.
In a press release, the Polish secret services explained that they had started a check “to verify the extent of the classified information to which the judge had access.”
