If a person is charged with committing a crime, before the indictment is formulated, all the evidence gathered is made available in a categorical manner – said National Prosecutor Dariusz Korneluk in “Kropka nad i”, referring to the disclosure of materials from the investigation concerning him to Pavel Rubtsov, suspected of espionage. He emphasized, however, that in the files provided to him – including the classified ones – “there are no names, there are no findings and circumstances that could harm the interests of the Republic of Poland”.
“Rzeczpospolita” wrote on Thursday that GRU officer Pavel Rubtsov, who posed as Spanish journalist Pablo Gonzalez, left Poland as part of a prisoner exchange between the West and Russiareceived access to investigation materials, including classified ones.
The National Prosecutor's Office, referring to the case, wrote that the prosecutor is obliged to make the files available to the suspect against whom he has filed a motion to apply temporary arrest to the court and in such a situation there is no possibility of refusing to make them available. Przemysław Nowak, the spokesman for the National Prosecutor's Office, added clearly, however, that There were no state secrets in the files made available that could harm Poland.
The State Prosecutor on what Rubtsov saw
National Prosecutor Dariusz Korneluk spoke on “Kropka nad i” on TVN24 about this case. – Today, both I and the prosecutor-reporter read the article in “Rzeczpospolita” with considerable astonishment – he said.
He explained that “if a person is charged with committing a specific offence and an indictment is subsequently filed against that person, all of the evidence collected is made available in a categorical manner before the indictment is filed.”
– This is what the Code of Criminal Procedure says. We live in a free world today and everyone has the right to defend themselves – he said, emphasizing that “everyone has the right to know what they are accused of and what evidence has been gathered against them”.
He also said that the material that was classified was so “primarily for formal reasons, which was also confirmed to me today by the head of the Internal Security Agency.”
– Secondly, the content of this classified material from a substantive and legal perspective did not surprise the accused himself in any way. He learned from these materials what he did for a living, and therefore what we know and why we accuse him of committing a crime under Article 130, paragraph 1 of the Penal Code – continued PK.
He emphasized that “there are no names, there are no findings or circumstances that could harm the interests of the Republic of Poland”. – There are no operational techniques, methods used. From this material the accused learned what the Polish services know, how he passed on information to the Russian Federation. Only that. So he found out about his own activities, about what he was doing to the detriment and Ukraineand Poland. Nothing more – said Korneluk.
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