The Warsaw district prosecutor’s office said it sent the case to the capital’s regional court against Błaszczak and current National Security Bureau (BBN) chief Sławomir Cenckiewicz. It also named National Broadcasting Council chair Agnieszka Glapiak and former Defense Ministry planning director Piotr Z. as defendants.
Prosecutors accuse Błaszczak, then defense minister, of exceeding his powers in late July 2023 to obtain personal gain for the then-ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party by declassifying fragments of strategic operational planning documents, including the “Plan of Use of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland – Warta.”
Those excerpts were later shown in a campaign spot published in September 2023 on PiS’s official profile on the X platform, which “harmed the public interest and caused exceptionally serious damage to the Republic of Poland,” the office said.
Prosecutors added that Piotr Z., Agnieszka Glapiak and Sławomir Cenckiewicz “played a significant role” by facilitating the offense.
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski wrote on X: “Let this be a warning to all politicians: for party gain, none should dare play with Poland’s security.”
Government spokesman Adam Szłapka said on X that revealing secret defense documents was “acting to Poland’s detriment,” which “cannot be defended.”
Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk said the plans “were revealed at a specially organized military picnic, during which Piorun and Javelin were fired into the forest.” He added: “Millions of [Polish] zlotys at the army’s expense in the name of the election campaign. That case has also been referred to prosecutors.”
Tomczyk said that, during the campaign and “against the opinion of the Chief of the General Staff,” Błaszczak and Cenckiewicz “declassified fragments of the country’s defense plans.”
“Torn from context, the fragments were meant to hit [political opponent] Prime Minister Donald Tusk. They hit Poland,” he wrote, adding that Poland’s adversaries gained insight into planning methodology, assumptions and use of natural obstacles.
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Source: PAP