A Belarusian espionage network operating in Europe has been dismantled by the intelligence services of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania, the Czech counterintelligence agency BIS announced on Monday.
According to BIS, a coordinated team of European agents uncovered spies linked to Belarus’s KGB in multiple European countries. Among those identified was a former deputy head of Moldova’s intelligence service (SIS), who allegedly provided classified information to the Belarusian KGB.
In a related action, the Czech authorities expelled a Belarusian agent posing as a diplomat, giving him 72 hours to leave the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed.
“Belarus was able to establish this network because its diplomats can travel freely across Europe. To successfully combat these hostile activities, the movement of accredited Russian and Belarusian diplomats within the Schengen zone must be restricted,” said BIS Director Michal Koudelka.
Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, also executed an arrest warrant for a 47-year-old suspect accused of treason. The suspect, a former senior official in Moldova’s SIS, allegedly disclosed state secrets to Belarusian intelligence, posing a threat to national security. Between 2024 and 2025, he reportedly met Belarusian agents in Budapest, where instructions and payments were exchanged.
The investigation is coordinated by Eurojust, the European Union’s judicial cooperation agency.
Belarus, led by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko allowed Russia to use Belarus as a launch base for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and later approved the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear missiles on Belarusian soil.
