Refusing to speculate on the possible origin of the installation, the Polish Defense Minister stressed that this installation was discovered during a routine check of the special services.
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A device capable of being used for eavesdropping was discovered in a room where the Polish government was to meet, in Katowice. Polish special services have “detected and dismantled” a device “in the room where the Council of Ministers will meet today in Katowice”, declared their spokesperson on. A message published while the Polish government was to meet in this city in the south of the country, where an important European economic congress is being held.
The installation could record both sound and video, he told TVN24 television.
A potentially obsolete device
“An investigation is underway”, declared Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz to this same channel. “It is difficult to say whether these are devices that were installed years ago and were not discovered earlier.” or if these devices have been installed recently. Refusing to speculate on the possible origin of the installation, he stressed that it was discovered during a routine check carried out before each government meeting.
Quoted by the Polish media Tok.fm, an official from Silesia, the province in which Katowice is located, declared that the device was in reality “old communications equipment, once used by officials” of the university where the meeting of ministers was to be held, and installed by a now retired employee.
On Monday, the Polish prosecutor’s office announced that it had opened an investigation into espionage after a judge, Tomasz Szmydt, requested political asylum in Belarus. Considered close to the populist nationalist Law and Justice party, which lost power late last year to the current pro-EU coalition, Tomasz Szmydt said he chose to leave his native country due to a “political disagreement” with the current power and fearing being pursued in a “fabricated espionage case” Poland.
The Polish secret services explained in a press release on Monday that they had started an inspection “to verify the extent of the classified information to which the judge had access.”
