{"id":582632,"date":"2026-09-28T18:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=582632"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:54:34","slug":"belarusian-man-sentenced-to-3-5-years-in-prison-for-preparing-sabotage-in-polish-city-of-chelm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-man-sentenced-to-3-5-years-in-prison-for-preparing-sabotage-in-polish-city-of-chelm","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Man Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison for Preparing Sabotage in Polish City of Che\u0142m"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian citizen <strong>Vitaly S.<\/strong> has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison on charges of preparing an act of sabotage on behalf of a foreign intelligence service. The verdict was handed down by the District Court in Lublin, Radio Lublin reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, the 28-year-old Belarusian was acting on instructions from an unidentified person when he prepared an act of sabotage in Che\u0142m \u2014 setting fire to a warehouse. He filmed the site and sent the footage to the unidentified person, receiving a cryptocurrency payment worth about 1,500 zlotys ($490).<\/p>\n<p>The man agreed to the sentence. The court also ordered him to pay a fine of 1,500 zlotys and deprived him of civil rights for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>Officers of Poland\u2019s Internal Security Agency (ABW) arrested the Belarusian in Warsaw on August 13, 2025. He remained in detention pending trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian citizen Vitaly S. has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison on charges of preparing an act of sabotage on behalf of a foreign intelligence service. The verdict was handed down by the District Court in Lublin, Radio Lublin reports. According to the indictment, the 28-year-old Belarusian was acting on instructions from an unidentified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":582631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aba9bce7f9cf.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Man Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison for Preparing Sabotage in Polish City of Che\u0142m"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582632","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=582632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582633,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582632\/revisions\/582633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}