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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' 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.
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.
The Czech agency said that Belarus managed to create the network
because its diplomats are able to freely travel across European
countries.
“To 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,” BIS
head Michal Koudelka said in a statement.
The agency didn’t immediately offer more details.
Romania’s 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's SIS. The suspect allegedly disclosed
state secrets to Belarusian intelligence officers that would
likely “endanger national security,” DIICOT stated.
The Romanian agency added that, between 2024 and 2025, the
Moldovan suspect — who wasn't named — met twice with Belarusian
spies in Budapest, Hungary, and that there is “reasonable
suspicion” that the meetings involved “transmitting
instructions” and exchanging payments for services provided.
The ongoing international investigation has been supervised by
the European Union’s judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust.
Belarus is led by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko,
who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Lukashenko let Russia use Belarusian territory as a staging
ground for Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February
2022, and later allowed the deployment of Russian tactical
nuclear missiles.
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