The services in action reported that the court wanted to subject Paweł Rubcow, whose entry was described as a Russian GRU agent operating under the name Pablo González, to a red notice from Interpol. According to the author, the Main Police Headquarters refused to submit the request, considering that spying would have a political character and Interpol would not agree to consider it. The portal "Rzeczpospolita" described this decision as controversial. The entry recalled that Rubcow was detained by the ABW in February 2022 at the Polish-Ukrainian border, and the prosecutor's office accused him of espionage for the GRU from 2016 to 2022. The author wrote that in August 2024, Rubcow was handed over to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange, while the Polish proceedings remained suspended. The court was to have already issued a wanted notice and a European Arrest Warrant, and the red notice was supposed to enable searches in about 200 countries. As reported by the services in action, the International Cooperation Bureau of the Main Police Headquarters referred to Article 3 of the Interpol Constitution, which prohibits the organization from engaging in political, military, religious, or racial matters. After receiving the opinion from the Main Police Headquarters, the court withdrew the request for Rubcow's prosecution on June 3. Stanisław Żaryn, an expert on special services and former spokesman for the coordinator of special services, wrote on X that the Main Police Headquarters had already regarded the case as political and that the withdrawal of the request was "another huge mistake." #szpiegostwo #Interpol #Polska (translated)



