{"id":572394,"date":"2026-08-29T19:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=572394"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:44:48","slug":"kgb-says-group-of-belarusians-detained-for-collecting-information-on-defense-enterprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/kgb-says-group-of-belarusians-detained-for-collecting-information-on-defense-enterprises","title":{"rendered":"Report About KGB Detaining Group of Belarusians Appeared on Fake Telegram Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><em>(updated)<\/em> A <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kgb_kanal\/164\">report<\/a> appeared on a fake Telegram channel (@kgb_kanal) purporting to belong to the Belarusian KGB, claiming that a group of Belarusian citizens had been detained on suspicion of collecting classified information about defense industry enterprises for a &#8220;foreign handler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report claimed that, according to the KGB, the detainees had collected &#8220;information about the production capacities of enterprises, the movement of certain types of products and their employees. Specially created communication channels were allegedly used to transmit the information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Reform.news editorial team also republished this information without proper verification.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that Belarus&#8217; State Security Committee essentially has no official online channels. In April 2024, the Cyber Partisans <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/kiberpartizany-vzlomali-sajt-kgb\/\">said they had hacked the KGB website<\/a>, and it has been offline ever since. On Telegram, the Belarusian security service attempted to establish an official channel at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/KGB_BY_channel\/\">@KGB_BY_channel<\/a>, but it is updated irregularly and is used only to publish updates to the List of Organizations and Individuals Involved in Terrorist Activities.<\/p>\n<p>We apologize to our readers for our lack of due diligence and for disseminating inaccurate information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(updated) A report appeared on a fake Telegram channel (@kgb_kanal) purporting to belong to the Belarusian KGB, claiming that a group of Belarusian citizens had been detained on suspicion of collecting classified information about defense industry enterprises for a &#8220;foreign handler.&#8221; The report claimed that, according to the KGB, the detainees had collected &#8220;information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":572393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a939922ed3ad.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Report About KGB Detaining Group of Belarusians Appeared on Fake Telegram Channel"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572394","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}