As established by the Masovian Department of Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor's Office, the inconspicuous official acted as a Russian agent for five years. According to investigators, the scale of the damage he could have caused is difficult to estimate.
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Several hundred copied documents and cooperation with an intelligence officer
According to the indictment, Tomasz L., working in the Archival Department of Civil Registry Records, he copied hundreds of documents and passed them to a Russian intelligence officer. Formally, it was supposed to be a diplomat from the Russian embassy who was expelled from Poland in March 2022.
In the same year, the Internal Security Agency detained Tomasz L. His investigation led to the expulsion from Poland of as many as 45 Russian diplomats, including his leading agent.
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As described by “Rzeczpospolita”, the archivist was to include, among others: civil status records of Poles and foreigners, correspondence with diplomatic missions, official templates and guidelines. He copied the data to private media and a mobile phone.
Assist in creating false agent identities
Investigators emphasize that the stolen data could have been used by the Russians to create the so-called identity duplicates – false documents legalizing the activities of sleeper agents. Such “illegals” operate under someone else's name, with a new biography, remaining undetected for years.
“These are intelligence officers who adopt a different identity, prepared especially for them” – notes “Rz”.
The trial of Tomasz L. will be one of the most serious espionage cases in recent years, revealing how deeply the Russian services tried to penetrate Polish state institutions.
