Romanian, Czech and Hungarian services, in cooperation with Eurojust (the European Union agency for cooperation between justice in criminal matters), carried out an action, as a result of which a suspected person was detained to provide secret information to a foreign country. The suspect, a former officer of the Moldovan counterintelligence, was to regularly provide Belarusian intelligence with data threatening the safety of Romania.
“Thanks to the coordination of Eurojustu, the authorities of Romania, the Czech Republic and Hungary could exchange information and evidence, which allowed to prove the criminal activity of the suspect,” we read in Eurojustu. “In the afternoon of September 8, the suspect was detained in Romania,” the agency adds.
This is how the spy net of Belarus worked
Eurojust does not specify who it is about. However, as the Telex website has established, the detained one is Alexandru Balan – a Moldovan also with a Romanian passport. In the years 2024–2025 he met at least twice in Budapest with representatives of Belarusian services. During these meetings, he provided information and received further instructions for his activities.
Balan in 2016–2019 was the deputy director of the Moldovan General Service and Security Service, where he supervised the work of counterintelligence. From 2019 he was a liaison officer in Kiev. His career in the services ended in an atmosphere of a scandal. In 2021, despite the end of the mission and a call to return, Balan remained in Ukraine. After returning to Moldova, he caused an accident under the influence of alcohol, which led to his dismissal and the loss of the right to a pension.
The trail of the spy of Belarus has a news to Poland
According to the findings of Telex, the services also became interested in another man – a Belarusian living in Poland. “He works as a taxi driver in the border area and is a member of the Belarusian opposition. His role is interesting because he was in the circle of services of services thanks to the Belarusian spies, with whom Balan met in Budapest. The taxi driver held meetings at the beginning of the year” – writes Telex.
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the relationship between Belarus and Moldova was tightened. Minsk actively began to support the Kremlin, and Chisini was condemned by Vladimir Putin. As a result, Moldova, as a country directly bordering with Ukraine, has become a place of interviews.
