2024-07-12 14:47 update: 2024-07-14, 11:17
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The Military Counter-Intelligence Service has accused Tomasz Szatkowski, Poland's former ambassador to NATO, of mishandling classified documents, contacts with foreign special services and obtaining unauthorised financial benefits, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said.
Szatkowski, who was appointed as Poland's ambassador to the military bloc by the former ruling party, the socially-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), in 2019, was recalled by the new foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, in June. But President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, refuses to acknowledge the change and appoint Sikorski's nominee Jacek Najder to replace Szatkowski.
Tusk said on Friday that, in early May, Poland's security agencies passed a memo to Duda in which they listed their main objections towards Szatkowski.
But Duda said at that time that the documents he had received did not prove Szatkowski did anything wrong.
"According to the Military Counterintelligence Service findings, Mr Szatkowski is accused of mishandling classified documents, contacts with foreign special services, obtaining unauthorised financial benefits and having been influenced by suggestions and inspirations of foreign companies while preparing important state documents directly concerning state security," Tusk said. (PAP)
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