Rzeczpospolita: Agents Of Lukashenka's Main Intelligence Directorate Detected In Poland

They infiltrated the environment of democratic activists.

Dzmitry Pratasevich and his partner Maksim Kandratovich infiltrated into the environment of democratic activists in Poland and were spying on them, writes Rzeczpospolita with reference to the ‘Belarusian Investigative Centre’.

Both got into volunteer organisations first under the guise of victims of repression, and then joined their work. In 2021, they moved to Poland. In Lodz, in December 2022, they opened the Arkmaxx group company.

As BIC journalists managed to find out, Dzmitry Pratasevich is a fictitious person. His real name is Yury Kiziuk. He graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and worked in the Economic Crimes Department of Navahrudak police department. In 2015, he applied to the KGB in search of a job. His application is in the leaked database. Already in 2016, his personnel file contained the entry ‘detached to the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk’. And three years later, Kiziuk left the Interior Ministry and transferred to the Ministry of Defence. His new place of service, already as a captain, is the military unit 45523 in Minsk - it is the Foreign Information and Communication Department of the Main Intelligence Directorate.

Mikhail Pavetka also served in the same unit. This is the real name of the second ‘volunteer’ Maksim Kandratovich. He also graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but did not work in the police. From 2015 to 2018, before getting into intelligence, he worked in the Military Commandant's Office of Minsk.

The leaked passport database shows four passports issued to a person who looks like Dzmitry Pratasevich. They are Yury Kiziuk, Dzmitry Pratasevich, Ryhor Nazaranka and another Dzmitry Pratasevich, with different data.

BIC journalists wrote a request to the Polish prosecutor's office asking whether the office knew anything about Pratasevich and Kandratovich's activities on the territory of the country. They have not yet received a reply at the time of the investigation's publication.

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