An invalid passport will make his life difficult
‘Gazeta Wyborcza’, who wrote about the case, notes that the cancellation of the passport does not bring Tomasz Szmydt's detention closer, but importantly limits his ability to travel. If the erstwhile justice fails to get a passport from the Belarusian authorities, he will be imprisoned there, and the only option of departure will stay Russia, which cooperates with the Lukashenko regime. A journey to any another country without a valid paper will be impossible.
‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ besides informs that the National Prosecutor's Office continues its investigation into Szmydt's cooperation with Belarusian intelligence. Until now, however, no credible evidence has been found that he was spying on Belarus as a justice in Poland.
The Mazowieckie Provincial Office refuses to supply information on this matter. However, it is clear that a decision has already been made.
The hatred affair
Tomasz Szmydt, a erstwhile justice of the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw, has since 16 May been wanted by a BOLO letter, which was issued by the Mazowieckie Department of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw.
On 6 May the Belarusian press agency Belta informed that the justice had requested asylum from the Belarusian authorities, justifying his decision by opposing the policy of the current Polish authorities. He besides called for "to reconstruct dialog with president Lukashenko and Russia".
The hatred affair was revealed in August 2019, erstwhile Onet published a series of materials on the contacts of then Deputy Minister of Justice Luke Piebiak with Emilia Sz., who utilized the nickname "Little Emi" on the Internet. The female attacked social media judges defending the regulation of law utilizing material provided by Piebiak-related judges.
This group, referred to as “Kasta”, was to be organized through the communicator WhatsApp and included judges Konrad Wytrykowski, Przemysław W. Radzik, Maciej Mitera, Michał Lasota, Jakub Iwaniec, Jarosław Dudzicz and Łukasz Piebiak himself.
