Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office and Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesperson for the minister-coordinator of the special services, have released further details about the Belarusian and Polish citizens detained by the Internal Security Agency (ABW) for filming Belarusian community events in Warsaw.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the detained Belarusian citizen is identified as Aliaksei B., while the Polish citizen is identified as Rafał G. They have been charged with acting on behalf of a foreign intelligence service in Warsaw and elsewhere in Poland during 2024–2025.
“Since at least last autumn, they traveled here in Warsaw to various events organized by the Belarusian minority, including protests and festivals. There, I stress, acting on instructions from the Belarusian special services, they photographed participants, recorded videos, and sent the material across the eastern border so that the Belarusian special services, Lukashenka’s services, could use it for their own purposes and, of course, for propaganda purposes. It is worth noting that the court had no doubts. Therefore, by court decision, the 19-year-old Belarusian citizen, who had been legally residing in the country and working here in Warsaw as a waiter, will spend the next three months in pretrial detention,” Dobrzyński said on TVP Info.
As previously reported, the Polish citizen remains at liberty under police supervision. He has been banned from leaving the country, and his passport has been confiscated.
According to Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office, five people have already been detained as part of the investigation, including three Belarusian citizens and two Ukrainian citizens. Three suspects have been held in pretrial detention since November 2025, one has been placed in a juvenile detention center, and one suspect has died.
The activities of the suspects were coordinated through Telegram. They were paid in cryptocurrency. In addition to filming Belarusian community events, they also recorded “critical infrastructure facilities and other locations of key importance to the security of the state and its citizens.”
“The materials obtained in this way were subsequently used by the Belarusian regime for propaganda purposes,” the prosecutor’s office said.
