100 THOUSAND EUROS FOR BETRAYAL! How Polish special services tried to recruit Belarusian diplomat

Recently our channel showed a film "Counterintelligence of Belarus against the Polish intelligence services" about agents and traitors who worked in the interests of this country against our state. They showed Belarusian traitors. They told in detail how they were recruited by the Polish intelligence services, what amounts they were offered. And the Poles living in Belarus, were carrying out the tasks of their curators here. The response of the Polish intelligence services was not long in coming. They made an attempt to recruit or, simply put, buy a Belarusian diplomat working abroad in order to justify their next high-profile failures to their leadership. And they failed miserably again.

Any intelligence officer on a mission is extremely afraid of being filmed on camera. Especially at the hottest moment of this special mission. And if two people at once get into the lens with a bag of money, which they are trying to use to buy the betrayal of a diplomatic worker. We have never seen anything like this.

Just the other day in the capital of Moldova, Chisinau, one Belarusian diplomat was offered a meeting in a restaurant and a chat by his Polish colleague Marcin Grabowicz, whom he knew from a previous foreign assignment. Nothing special, just informal communication. Usually, gifts are exchanged at such meetings. But this time the Pole forgot his gift at the hotel. Fortunately, it was very close, just a few steps away. And this became a reason to invite his Belarusian colleague to his room. And then something out of the ordinary happened.

- Marcin Grabowicz.: Volodya, what would happen if I offer you a job?

I have it in my bag, Volodya, look. I'll show you so that you didn't think I'm deceiving you. I didn't want to do this. Volodya, 100 thousand euros.

- Diplomat: Martin offered a job for the Polish special service. Everything is quite clear and banal.

- Anchor Evgeny Gorin: What was your reaction to his proposal?

- Diplomat: Evgeny, the reaction is the most natural. We have complex geopolitical conditions. In the current situation, any diplomat can find himself in such a position. The main thing here is to remember that the state is behind you, you represent the interests of your country.

- Gorin: What was the reaction of this Polish intelligence officer?

- Diplomat: You know, he got nervous. He was not ready for such a development of events. And, probably, this is natural, because they currently feel their impunity.

- Diplomat: His cough was a usual signal for his colleague, who was in the same hotel behind the wall in the next room. A signal that we had arrived.

- Gorin: And at some point this colleague of his came to your room. Yes?

- Diplomat: Yes. At a time when the situation seemed to be at a dead end. Martin was not ready for such a development of events, Pavel was an element of psychological pressure. Psychological pressure consisted precisely in the fact that Pavel acted as a second employee who puts pressure on the opponent.

Why do you need a second employee of the special services? If the first attempt to recruit a diplomat fails, then a kind of psychological trick is used, based on the surprise effect. The second employee suddenly enters the room, this can further demoralize the victim. And here a new window of opportunity for recruitment opens. But in this case, everything happened exactly the opposite.

- Gorin: At some point, you took out your mobile phone and started filming everything that was happening, including these two Polish spies, provocateurs. Weren't you afraid at that moment, after all, they are career employees of the Polish special services. Maybe they have weapons?

- Diplomat: You know, Evgeny, I didn't think about it. The situation was quite complicated in the sense that this was a moment of psychological pressure on their part. They understood that they had to quickly achieve some result. It was important for me to show everyone my confidence in my actions.

- Diplomat: I'll take a photo of Pavel with Marcn. Marcin, a little bit for memory.

Now let's get to know the Polish losers better.

Marcin Grabowicz. Born on March 16, 1971. A native of Slupsk. After graduating from university, he was accepted to serve in the Polish Internal Security Agency. The main areas of work are Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Then he joined the Polish Intelligence Agency. He graduated from combat training courses in Israel, worked under the cover in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the diplomatic security unit. Headed the regional residency in Lithuania and Latvia. From the end of 2021 to the present he is an official representative of the Polish Intelligence Agency in Ukraine. He holds the military rank of a colonel.

His colleague introduced himself as Pavel Novak and also a representative of the Polish Intelligence Agency. Marcin called him affectionately, the son. Another thing, the Poles reserved hotel rooms from Monday to Friday. However, the next day after the unsuccessful recruitment, they disappeared after lunch. They did not even hand over the keys to the reception.

- Gorin: Konstantin Fedorovich, how can you comment on the attempt to recruit a Belarusian diplomat by the Polish special services in Chisinau?

Konstantin Bychek, head of the Investigative Department of the KGB of Belarus:

- This is another attempt by the Polish special services to cover up their own unprofessionalism against the backdrop of a number of high-profile failures of their agents in the territory of the Republic of Belarus. The recruitment approach to an active diplomat is an outrageous case. Therefore, this will definitely be followed by an appropriate reaction from the Belarusian side. And given that the actions of the Polish special services contain elements of a crime against the state, the Investigative Department of the KGB will give them a fundamental legal assessment.

Anatoly Glaz, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus:

- From the point of view of both domestic and international law, this is an outrageous incident. A number of national laws were violated. A number of international rules were violated. The norms of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic and Consular Relations are being directly violated. An attempt to exert pressure or recruit a diplomat, believe me, and such an impudent and open one, even beyond the bounds of law, the rules of decency of normal civilized interstate communication. This cannot go unnoticed. We have already prepared the corresponding note to the Polish side. I believe that a number of other steps will follow, which we are thinking about most seriously. All responsibility for the consequences of such actions lies with the Polish side.

Konstantin Bychek, Head of the Investigative Department of the KGB of Belarus:

- Indeed, a large number of foreign citizens are serving sentences in places of imprisonment in the Republic of Belarus, including citizens of Poland, the Baltic States, and other Western countries for cooperation with the special services of foreign states. These persons were convicted of espionage or intelligence activities. Their guilt was established by court sentences that entered into legal force on the basis of irrefutable evidence, including their confessions. Indeed, representatives of foreign special services regularly contact us with an offer to exchange these persons for citizens of the Republic of Belarus who are in their prisons. At the same time, they offer robbers, rapists, drug addicts, swindlers, and others for exchange. In this regard, the official position of the committee is that we do not exchange anyone. Neither in Poland, nor in the Baltics, nor in other Western countries are there citizens of the Republic of Belarus who collaborated with the KGB, were convicted for this, and are serving sentences there.

This spy episode in Chisinau can be described as total amateurism of the Polish special services. Their latest failure and desire to take revenge for the suppression of the agent network in Belarus, consisting of Tomasz Beroza and Dmitry Pozdnyakov. Well, so that there would be at least some justification before their Polish leadership and at least some response to the work of the KGB counterintelligence of Belarus.