With the accusation of aiding a GRU spy, she was on TVP after the change of power? “She did not cooperate”

On Monday, the portal described the relationship between Pavel Rubtsov/Pablo Gonzalez and a Polish journalist, who was anonymized in the article. It is known that this is a person who worked with several larger editorial offices in Poland and Europe. The couple was detained in 2022. Pablo Gonzalez has been in custody since then – ABW investigators claim that Gonzalez is also Pavel Rubtsov, a GRU officer, building a network of contacts throughout Europe and working for Russian propaganda, most likely also passing on collected information to Moscow. – the woman was charged with aiding espionage, but it was not decided to apply temporary arrest to her. As early as 2022, as FrontStory reports, she returned to normal work.

With the accusation of aiding a Russian spy she was on TVP after the change of government?

The GRU officer recently arrived in Moscow via Turkey as part of a prisoner exchange, where Vladimir Putin himself shook his hand at the airport. Despite being accused of aiding a spy, the journalist returned to her normal journalistic work, cooperating with several Polish editorial offices and creating materials for European editorial offices. She attended the Sejm, reported on the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border. She was also supposed to be present on Telewizja Polska when the authorities in the public media changed in December last year. This is what former TVP employee Tomasz Marzec claims, who worked for Telewizja Polska for a month at that critical time. On platform X, he even wrote – and deleted the entry shortly afterwards – about the presence of a woman in the so-called “entrance group”:

That’s why I’m fighting to find out who was behind the “entrance group”. Magda was with us. That’s it. I left – he wrote in a post that was later deleted.

In response to his post, the woman’s personal data was revealed by, among others, Cezary Gmyz and former deputy minister of foreign affairs in the PiS government, Paweł Jabłoński:

In December last year, the “entry group” was referred to in media reports as people who were closely involved in the change of leadership in media companies.

In a statement from TVP, sent to the Wirtualne Media editorial office, it was confirmed that the journalist was at the TV headquarters at the time. It was noted, however, that she was not cooperating with public media at the time:

[dziennikarka – przyp. red.] was at TVP headquarters because she was preparing reports ordered by Euronews. She did not cooperate with the Television Information Agency / Polish Television.

In an interview with FrontStory, which was the first to broadly describe the case of Gonzalez/Rubtsov and his then-partner, Dr. Piotr Kładoczny from the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights emphasized that the charge of aiding and abetting espionage is defined in Poland in a rather imprecise way. He recalls that even “the person who licked and stuck stamps on a letter containing a defamatory anonymous note was convicted of aiding and abetting.” No verdict was issued in the journalist’s case, and the essence of spies’ activities is to maintain the so-called legend, which can also be believed by those closest to them.