Espionage: a device suspected of being used for wiretapping discovered in Poland before a government meeting
A device capable of being used for eavesdropping was discovered in a room where the Polish government was to meet, in Katowice. Polish special services have “detected and dismantled” a device “in the room where the Council of Ministers will meet today in Katowice”, declared their spokesperson on. A message published while the Polish government was to meet in this city in the south of the country, where an important European economic congress is being held.
The installation could record both sound and video, he told TVN24 television.
“An investigation is underway”, declared Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz to this same channel. “It is difficult to say whether these are devices that were installed years ago and were not discovered earlier.” or if these devices have been installed recently. Refusing to speculate on the possible origin of the installation, he stressed that it was discovered during a routine check carried out before each government meeting.
Quoted by the Polish media Tok.fman official from Silesia, the province in which Katowice is located, said the device was actually “old communications equipment, once used by officials” of the university where the meeting of ministers was to be held, and installed by a now retired employee.
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