{"id":495632,"date":"2025-11-09T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=495632"},"modified":"2025-11-09T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:26:04","slug":"poland-opens-criminal-case-over-attempts-by-belarusian-security-services-to-recruit-nau-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/poland-opens-criminal-case-over-attempts-by-belarusian-security-services-to-recruit-nau-staff","title":{"rendered":"Poland Opens Criminal Case Over Attempts by Belarusian Security Services to Recruit NAU Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Polish prosecutor\u2019s office has opened a criminal case into attempts by Belarusian security services to recruit employees of the National Anti-Crisis Management (NAU). <b>Pavel Latushka<\/b>, deputy head of the United Transitional Cabinet and head of the NAU, received an official notice from the District Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Warsaw on November 8.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, the case was opened on October 23, 2025, by the Military Affairs Department over the fact that from July 27 to 31, at least ten NAU employees received messages offering cooperation with Belarusian intelligence services. The messages included blackmail, promises of money, and offers to \u201cstart with a clean slate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is being conducted under Article 130 of the Criminal Code \u2014 \u201cactivities in the interest of foreign intelligence.\u201d The offense carries a penalty of five to thirty years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Latushka and <strong>Artsiom Brukhan<\/strong>\u00a0spoke to journalists about the recruitment attempts on July 31. Latushka later gave formal testimony at the request of the prosecutor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe opening of a criminal case by the District Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Warsaw confirms the seriousness and scale of the actions of the regime\u2019s security services, aimed at countering the activities of Belarus\u2019s democratic structures and activists, as well as creating threats to the security of the Republic of Poland.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I appeal to citizens of Belarus who face persecution and threats from the regime\u2019s security services on the territory of Poland: please inform the District Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Warsaw (regardless of your place of residence in Poland) about such actions so they can be consolidated and investigated within a single criminal case, which will simplify evidence collection and the course of the investigation,\u201d<\/i> Pavel Latushka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish prosecutor\u2019s office has opened a criminal case into attempts by Belarusian security services to recruit employees of the National Anti-Crisis Management (NAU). Pavel Latushka, deputy head of the United Transitional Cabinet and head of the NAU, received an official notice from the District Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Warsaw on November 8. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":495631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6910a47f2b6b1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Poland Opens Criminal Case Over Attempts by Belarusian Security Services to Recruit NAU Staff"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}