Russian suspected of sabotage deported to Poland, Tusk says
A Russian citizen suspected of coordinating acts of sabotage against Poland, the US and other allies has been deported to Poland from Bosnia and Herzegovina and arrested by a court order, the Polish prime minister has said.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk made the announcement on the X platform on Friday.
Tusk added that the Russian was suspected of having coordinated "acts of sabotage" against Poland, the US and other Poland's allies involving setting fire to facilities and sending courier parcels with incendiary materials.
"Great job of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the prosecutor's office. Russia's hostile activities have been confirmed," the prime minister wrote.
The suspect was deported on Thursday from Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he had been hiding.
The information was confirmed by the National Prosecutor's Office. The suspect was charged on Friday with having coordinated acts of sabotage in Poland and other countries. He was arrested for three months by a court order.
Tomasz Siemoniak, the interior minister, expressed his gratitude to the ABW, the Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (OSA) and its Director General Almir Dzuvo for good cooperation. "Security, Europe!," he wrote on the X platform.
Siemoniak added that the deportation and the arrest were "a serious blow to the Russian sabotage network in Europe thanks to the Internal Security Agency."
An investigation, carried out by the National Prosecutor's Office in cooperation with ABW, concerned the operations of foreign intelligence in Poland and other EU countries aimed at damaging industrial facilities and critical infrastructure with the use of courier parcels with incendiary materials.
Acts of sabotage, such as the burning of a courier company truck near Warsaw as well as the fires in a depot in Great Britain and at an airport in Germany, were reported last year. According to mass media, the parcels had been sent by people paid by Russian intelligence. (PAP)
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