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The Czech Republic counter intelligence agency said on Monday that Belarus had split the spy network being built in Europe in collaboration with Hungary and Romania’s intelligence agency.
A Czech agency, also known as the BIS, said in a statement that a team of European agents had discovered spies in several European countries from the KGB, Belarus’s leading security agency.
It said that the former deputy chief of Moldovan Intelligence Service Sis, who handed over the information classified as the KGB, was among them.
The Czechs also expelled Belarusian agents who were operating under the cover of diplomats. The person was given 72 hours to leave the country, the Czech Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
The Czech agency said Belarus managed to create a network because its diplomats could travel freely through European countries.
“To successfully counter these hostile activities in Europe, we need to limit the movement of certified diplomats from Russia and Belarus within the Schengen (borderless) region.”
The agency did not immediately provide details.
The ongoing international investigation is being overseen by Eurojust, the European Union’s judicial cooperation body.
Belarus is led by President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
His country allowed Russia to use Belarusian territory in 2022 as a staging site for full-scale invasions of Ukraine in Moscow, and later allowed the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear missiles.
Additional sources •AP