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<\/p>\n Email Link<\/p>\n Prague, Czech Republic \n A spy network being built in Europe by Belarus was broken up by intelligence services from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, the Czech counterintelligence agency said Monday.\n <\/p>\n \n The Czech agency, also known as BIS, said in a statement that a team of European agents discovered spies in several European countries from Belarus\u2019 KGB security agency. BIS said that a former deputy head of Moldovan intelligence service SIS who handed over classified information to the KGB was among them.\n <\/p>\n \n The Czechs also expelled a Belarusian agent who was operating under the cover of a diplomat. That person was given 72 hours to leave the Czech Republic, the Czech Foreign Ministry said Monday.\n <\/p>\n \n The Czech agency said that Belarus managed to create the network because its diplomats are able to freely travel across European countries.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cTo successfully counter these hostile activities in Europe, we need to restrict the movement of accredited diplomats from Russia and Belarus within the Schengen (borderless) area,\u201d BIS head Michal Koudelka said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n \n The agency didn\u2019t immediately offer more details.\n <\/p>\n \n Romania\u2019s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said on Monday that it implemented an arrest warrant for a 47-year-old suspect on treason charges. The suspect had previously held management positions within Moldova\u2019s SIS. The suspect allegedly disclosed state secrets to Belarusian intelligence officers that would likely \u201cendanger national security,\u201d DIICOT stated.\n <\/p>\n \n The Romanian agency added that, between 2024 and 2025, the Moldovan suspect \u2013 who wasn\u2019t named \u2013 met twice with Belarusian spies in Budapest, Hungary, and that there is \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d that the meetings involved \u201ctransmitting instructions\u201d and exchanging payments for services provided.\n <\/p>\n \n The ongoing international investigation has been supervised by the European Union\u2019s judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust.\n <\/p>\n \n Belarus is led by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko<\/a>, who is a close ally <\/a>of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko let Russia use Belarusian territory as a staging ground for Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and later allowed the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear missiles.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Prague, Czech Republic AP \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 A spy network being built in Europe by Belarus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-409056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115171444915744516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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