Poland uncovers possible wiretapping in government meeting room

WARSAW

Polish security services on Tuesday discovered possible listening devices in a room intended to be used for a government meeting in the southern city of Katowice.

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The discovery comes at a time when the NATO member has become a target of pro-Kremlin espionage following Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

Security services “detected and removed devices that could have been used to listen to conversations in the room where the cabinet will meet today in Katowice,” security services spokesman Jacek Dobrzynski said on x.

The equipment could record both audio and video, he told TVN24 television.

Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said an investigation was underway.

“It is difficult to say whether these are devices installed years ago and not discovered earlier” or installed more recently, he told TVN24.

Refusing to speculate on their origin, he said they were discovered during a routine check carried out before each government meeting.

The discovery comes a day after a Polish judge fled to neighboring Belarus and reportedly sought asylum over espionage allegations he called “fabricated.”

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Prosecutors have opened an espionage investigation against the judge.

Last month, a Russian pageant fan was jailed in Poland for spying on the European Union country’s military for Moscow.