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Poland Convicts Russian Couple of FSB Spying and Parcel Bomb Plot
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A Polish court has convicted a Russian activist and his wife of spying for Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and taking part in a parcel bomb plot, TVP World reported on July 9.
The English-language Polish broadcaster noted that the trial opened in January in the southern city of Sosnowiec and was closed to the public over national security concerns.
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Igor Rogov, a former employee of the now-defunct nonprofit Open Russia, was sentenced to seven years for passing information about Poland-based Russian opposition groups and activists to the FSB.
He was also convicted over a July 2024 scheme to send a courier package containing bomb components, which authorities intercepted before it reached its destination.
His wife, Irina Rogova, received a three-year sentence for the same charges.
The Russian-language outlet Vot Tak reported that Rogov told investigators he had been pressured into cooperating with the FSB.
That pressure came first from problems at his university in Russia and later from threats that his father would be forcibly conscripted to fight in Ukraine.
Rogova acknowledged in court that she was aware of her husband's contacts with the intelligence agency but did not plead guilty, the outlet noted.
The couple had fled Russia and settled in Poland, where they were granted refugee status following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Authorities arrested the couple in 2024.
Polish services have repeatedly moved against Russian intelligence networks operating on their soil.
In May, the country's Internal Security Agency detained three Polish citizens accused of running a spy ring for Moscow.
That group gathered details on infrastructure and NATO troop placements while spreading pro-Russian propaganda, working under instructions from a Russian national tied to the FSB.
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