By Ilayda Cakirtekin
ISTANBUL (AA) - A Polish court on Monday sentenced a Lithuanian man to one year in prison for offering to spy for Belarus’ KGB intelligence service.
"The District Court in Bialystok sentenced Lithuanian citizen Saulius V. to one year of imprisonment for attempting to declare readiness to act on behalf of a foreign intelligence service against Poland and the United States," Jacek Dobrzynski, spokesperson for Poland’s minister-coordinator of special services, announced on US social media company X.
Dobrzynski said the 43-year-old Lithuanian had presented himself as an active officer of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from November 2024 to March 2025 and declared readiness to provide information on behalf of Belarus’ KGB intelligence service.
The Lithuanian man has been held in pretrial detention since his arrest in March last year by Poland’s Internal Security Agency.