{"id":597289,"date":"2026-11-02T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=597289"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:53:44","slug":"three-belarusian-citizens-accused-in-poland-of-illegal-drone-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/three-belarusian-citizens-accused-in-poland-of-illegal-drone-trafficking","title":{"rendered":"Three Belarusian Citizens Accused in Poland of Illegal Drone Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The prosecutor\u2019s office in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a has sent an indictment to court against three Belarusian citizens, a Polish-Ukrainian woman and a Polish citizen.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, the individuals formed an organised criminal group that profited from organising the production and sale outside Poland of military-purpose products without the required permits and licence. The group was also involved in money laundering. Two people are directly accused of establishing and leading the criminal group.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was conducted by the Internal Security Agency with the participation of the Military Counterintelligence Service.<\/p>\n<p>The group operated from November 2022 to February 2025. Its members were involved in <i><em>\u201cthe production and trade of military-purpose unmanned aerial vehicles without the necessary permits and licences\u201d<\/em><\/i>. During a search of a workshop used by the suspects, investigators found an advanced production line capable of producing at least 176 drones. It was not disclosed where or to whom the drones were sold.<\/p>\n<p><i><em>\u201cAccording to the findings of the investigation, the drones were manufactured under the guise of conducting legitimate commercial activity and were then illegally offered for sale outside Poland\u201d<\/em><\/i>, the Polish prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, the suspects\u2019 assets worth more than 3 million zlotys were frozen.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the accused are being held in custody, while non-custodial preventive measures have been imposed on the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor\u2019s office in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a has sent an indictment to court against three Belarusian citizens, a Polish-Ukrainian woman and a Polish citizen. According to the prosecution, the individuals formed an organised criminal group that profited from organising the production and sale outside Poland of military-purpose products without the required permits and licence. The group was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":492110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6ae85dae041bd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Three Belarusian Citizens Accused in Poland of Illegal Drone Trafficking"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597289","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=597289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597290,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597289\/revisions\/597290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}