Cezary Tomczyk: President Andrzej Duda should apologize to the secret services

President Duda during Thursday's joint press conference with the president Lithuania in Lublin, he was asked about the case of the Russian spy Pavel Rubtsov, who was supposed to have gained access to the materials of the Polish investigation.

– I can only say this: as far as I remember, in 2012 an agreement was concluded between the military counterintelligence service and the FSB regarding cooperation. It was during the government of the prime minister Donald Tusk and Prime Minister Donald Tusk agreed to this. Could this cooperation between the Russian services and the services of the Republic of Poland under the rule of Prime Minister Donald Tusk continue? Because that's what it looks like – said Duda.

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Tomczyk said on Friday on Radio Zet that he would like the president to withdraw his words about potential cooperation between Polish services and the Russian FSB.

He added that “the president is informed about all elements that concern all secret services” and that it is the secret services that the president should apologize for his words.

– I cannot imagine that in a normal country the president could use such words towards the prime minister – Tomczyk noted. According to him, these words “are above all beneath the dignity of the office of the President of the Republic of Poland”.

– If the President of the Republic of Poland, at a conference with the President of Lithuania, accuses his prime minister and the secret services of having any unauthorized contacts, this speaks very badly about himself and his country – assessed the deputy head of the Ministry of National Defense.

Pavel Rubtsov posed as a Spanish journalist and used the name Pablo Gonzalez. He was detained near the Polish-Ukrainian border a few days after the aggression Russia on Ukraine. According to the findings, he was in fact a GRU officer. Rubtsov was arrested, and an investigation against him was launched in Poland.

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After more than two years, the proceedings against Rubtsov entered their final stage, and on August 9, the prosecutor's office sent an indictment to the Przemyśl court accusing him of participating in Russian military intelligence. However, Rubtsov was no longer in Poland at that time. He had been released from Polish custody more than a week earlier as part of a prisoner exchange between Western countries and Russia.

On Thursday, “Rzeczpospolita” reported that the spy – before he was extradited to Russia – had been given access to materials from the Polish investigation, including classified materials. “The suspect familiarized himself with classified materials in the secret office of the ABW. With unclassified materials at the prosecutor's office,” “Rz” reported. According to the daily, the prosecutor's office could have refused Rubtsov access to classified files because of “protection of state interests.”

The spokesman for the National Prosecutor's Office, Przemysław Nowak, said on Thursday that providing access to files to a suspect who has been placed under temporary arrest is a “code principle”. – There is no legal possibility of refusing access to files to a suspect for whom a request for temporary arrest has been filed – he pointed out.

He also reported that in the files, both open and classified, made available to espionage suspect Pavel Rubtsov, there were no state secrets that could in any way harm Poland.