WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Polish prosecutors filed charges against the former defense minister on Friday, accusing him of exceeding his authority when he declassified some of the national defense plans prepared years ago under the early government led by Prime Minister Donald Task.
Task's government accused former defense minister Marius Blastzak of betraying national interests by revealing military secrets for political interests ahead of the general election.
“If you imagine the fundamental challenges of Polish spying, theft of defense plans would be his priority, but he didn't expect such a role to be played by the Minister of Defense,” current Deputy Defence Minister Sezaly Tomczyk told Parliament last month.
Blaszczak served as the defense minister of the National Conservative Government, which took power from 2015 to 2023. In 2023 he created the public portion of the military defense plan, which was created in 2011. The document planned to retreat west and westwards on the Polish River if Russia invaded from the east.
Blaszczak read the charges at the district prosecutor's office in Warsaw on Friday, he later told reporters.
He said he believes the allegations are unfounded.
He wrote to X that he was accused of “giving up half of Poland without fighting over the first fang government's plans.”
“I will do it again without hesitation. I have a right, but also an obligation,” he said.
“Thanks to this, Poles knows the truth about the fate you prepared for the inhabitants of eastern Poland,” he told Task, saying. “Thanks to this, no one will ever return to that kind of plan.”
