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The espionage group is dismantled/ the 14 members are declared guilty by the court,

2023-12-19 19:28:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
The espionage group is dismantled/ the 14 members are declared guilty by the
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Fourteen members of an espionage network in Poland were found guilty of preparing acts of sabotage and carrying out intelligence activities on behalf of Moscow.

The defendants, who include Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nationals, were indicted last month for acts including planning to derail trains carrying aid to Ukraine and monitoring military installations and critical infrastructure in Poland. They also distributed propaganda materials inciting hatred against Ukrainians.

"After examining the case, the court found all the defendants guilty of the crimes charged and found that some of them were operating within an organized criminal group," said the decision of the judge, Jaroslaë Koëalski.

All the defendants had pleaded guilty to the charges. They were not present in court when the verdict was handed down to them. One of those convicted is Maxim S, a Russian hockey player who was arrested while playing in a Polish club in Sosnoëiec. Moscow protested his arrest, demanding "full explanations" from Warsaw.

While the full identities of all the defendants have not been revealed, the group included two Ukrainian lawyers and a political scientist, a French teacher, a pharmacy technician and a computer engineer," the daily Rzeczpospolita writes.

Two other suspected members of the spy ring who withdrew their initial guilty pleas will be tried separately, according to a court spokesman.

Investigators found that network members received instructors through Telegram, an encrypted, cloud-based messaging app, and were paid in cryptocurrencies. According to Polish media, they were paid between 300 and 10,000 dollars - or 273 and 9,112 euros./ CNA





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