US EditionPoland charges former registry office employee with providing false identities for Russian spies
Tomasz L. allegedly passed official civil registry data to Russian intelligence over five years, aiding creation of fake spy identities, Polish prosecutors said.
- Polish authorities detained Tomasz L., a former Warsaw city council registry employee, on espionage and abuse of power charges in March 2022.
- Authorities claim that between 2017 and 2022, while employed at the municipal archives, Tomasz L. supplied Russian intelligence with duplicated personal data belonging to both Polish nationals and foreigners.
- According to prosecutors, the records enabled foreign services to create fake identity documents for their agents operating abroad.
- According to Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, information from his arrest assisted authorities in removing 45 Russian diplomats suspected of espionage that same month.
- Since Russia launched its large-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022, Polish officials have charged numerous people with spying or carrying out acts of sabotage for Moscow.
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Poland charges former registry office employee with providing false identities for Russian spies
Polish authorities have charged a former Warsaw city council employee with espionage for allegedly providing Russia with fake identities for its spies.
In the District Court of Warsaw, a case of espionage in favour of Russia was brought to court against a 58-year-old head of the Archives Department...
A former employee of Warsaw City Hall has been charged with spying for Russia and abuse of office. The report comes from the AP. The man, identified as Tomasz L., is accused of copying and photographing civil registry records (birth, marriage and death certificates) of people from Poland and abroad between 2017 and 2022. He then provided them to Russian intelligence services, which allowed them to create false identities for Russian agents opera…
A man who worked for Warsaw City Hall on his birth, marriage and death records was charged with espionage for allegedly providing Russia with false identities that his spies could use, Polish authorities reported on Thursday.
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