Szmydt, who was one of the best-known supporters and favorites of the former government of the nationally conservative Law and Justice (PiS), fled to Belarus via Turkey, where he had traveled shortly before, according to the paper.
“His escape is the worst betrayal of a Polish citizen since 1989. I am in shock,” Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski responded to the judge’s escape, according to onet.pl.
“Although Szmydt appeared in a country where Alexander Lukashenko rules despotically, he may actually be an agent of the Kremlin. In my opinion, he was not recruited by the Belarusian, but by the Russian secret services, and not in the past days, weeks or months,” said Robert Cheda, a retired major of the Polish secret services, in an interview with Fakt.pl.
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“Since there was a change of power in Poland and Szmydt had already lost access to the new Minister of Justice and the Prosecutor General, they decided to withdraw him. They already used him for propaganda purposes in Minsk, and now he will become a consultant for foreign intelligence in Moscow, which actually pays him,” he explained.
He added that the judge is a “gold mine” of information about Polish high-ranking officials, soldiers and secret services.
In response to Szmydt’s actions, the Polish public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation under the espionage section, and the secret services are closely examining what top secret information the influential judge had access to.
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