Szmydt also made it known that the current government was leading the country to war, and therefore asked the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, for asylum. In the past eight years, the former judge was extremely close to the former Law and Justice (PiS) government, and this month he was scheduled to make a decision in the case of secret information related to the functioning of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO).
“What damage did he do with his actions? Huge because he had access to classified information on 48 occasions. For example, he was aware of data on dozens of agents of the Polish special services, which he is now handing over to the Belarusian side and its Russian ally,” writes political scientist Bartosz T. Wieliński in a commentary for the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He adds that by hastily evacuating its agent from Poland at the current critical moment, Belarus has shown the world whose side it is on.
An influential Polish judge applied for asylum in Belarus
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Prime Minister Tusk does not hide his concerns
“We are aware that the Belarusian services are working with a person who had direct access to Justice Minister Zbygniew Ziobr in the PiS government and to several secret documents that the intelligence service should not have had access to under any circumstances,” said Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday after an extraordinary meeting . “The fact that Judge Szmydt’s relations with Belarus have a long history is not a matter of recent months and is a reason for our concern,” the prime minister added.
Szmydt himself commented on the escape for the Belarusian ONT television. In response to a question about whether he managed to get secret documents out of Poland, either in paper or electronic form, he said: “I had access to secret documents of various kinds, we’ll see later,” the natemat.pl server reported on Thursday.
“The public prosecutor’s office in Wrocław is investigating this case in order to reveal all the circumstances. Tomasz Szmydt apparently went back to where he was getting the money from. We are dealing with a spy and a traitor, which is the result of the long-term devastation of counterintelligence committed by the previous political power,” said Dariusz Jonski, deputy of the government Civic Platform (PO), for TVP on Thursday.
In Poland, they found “bugs” in the room where the government is supposed to act
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