Belarusian Darya A. was accused of collaborating with the KGB and passing information about the Belarusian opposition in Poland to Russian services. A verdict has been issued in her case. It is not yet final.
As Joanna Adamowicz from the press department of the District Court of Warsaw-Praga told us, the verdict in the described case was issued on September 10, 2024. Darya A. was found guilty of committing an act under Article 130 §1 of the Penal Code in connection with Article 65 §1 of the Penal Code and for this, applying Article 60 §6 p.2 of the Penal Code, the court sentenced her to one year and eight months of imprisonment, at the same time taking into account the period of pretrial detention in the case.
– The court also ordered the accused to forfeit the equivalent of the financial benefit achieved in the amount of PLN 15,546 – added Adamowicz.
Art. 130 § 1. Whoever takes part in the activities of a foreign intelligence service or acts on its behalf, against the Republic of Poland, shall be subject to the penalty of deprivation of liberty for a term of not less than 5 years. Art. 65 § 1. If the convicted person evades serving the penalty of restriction of liberty, the court shall order, and if he evades the pecuniary benefit or obligations imposed on the basis of Art. 34 § 3 of the Penal Code, the court may order the execution of a substitute penalty of deprivation of liberty. In the event that the convicted person has served part of the penalty of restriction of liberty, the court shall order the execution of a substitute penalty of deprivation of liberty in a length corresponding to the penalty of restriction of liberty remaining to be served, assuming that one day of the substitute penalty of deprivation of liberty is equivalent to two days of the penalty of restriction of liberty. Art. 60 § 2. The court may also apply extraordinary mitigation of punishment in particularly justified cases, when even the lowest penalty provided for the offence would be disproportionately severe, in particular: 1) if the injured party has been reconciled with the perpetrator, the damage has been repaired or the injured party and the perpetrator have agreed on the method of repairing the damage; 2) due to the attitude of the perpetrator, especially when he made efforts to repair the damage or prevent it; 3) if the perpetrator of an unintentional offence or his next of kin has suffered serious harm in connection with the offence committed.
The judgment is not final, no appeal has been filed yet.
She worked as a model.
At the end of the year, officers of the Internal Security Agency, acting on the prosecutor's orders, detained a citizen of Belarus. The woman was charged with conducting activities for the benefit of foreign intelligence against the Republic of Poland. She was arrested for three months. She faced a sentence of 10 years in prison.
“During the investigation, the prosecutor established that the woman had been providing information about members of the Belarusian diaspora and organizations of Belarusian nationality residing in the territory of the Republic of Poland for several months,” the National Prosecutor's Office reported. The woman in Belarus was supposed to be a model who worked mainly on adult websites.
As Onet reported, the woman allegedly confessed to her friends about her espionage activities under the influence of alcohol.
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