(MENAFN- UkrinForm) According to Ukrinform, The Guardian reported this in an article.

"A Russian opposition activist arrested in Poland and due to go on trial next month has admitted he worked as an undercover agent for Russia's FSB security service and informed on other opposition figures, court documents claim," the article reads.

Igor Rogov, 30, has been associated with various opposition movements in Russia. Rogov and his wife left Russia in 2021, according to the court documents, and in 2022 they received visas for Poland, where they arrived a few days after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and settled in the city of Sosnowiec.

Rogov was arrested by Polish authorities last summer, initially due to suspected links to an explosive package. The package, which contained components of an explosive device, was addressed to Rogov, although he never received it. He claimed he agreed to accept the package as a favor to a friend. A Ukrainian citizen was also arrested in connection with the parcel but has since been released.

Later, Rogov's wife, Irina Rogova, was also arrested, and the couple were accused of cooperating with the FSB to inform on other Russian opposition activists.

Documents show that Rogov had a long-standing relationship with the FSB. He admitted to interrogators that he had been approached by the security service several years ago while still in Russia and coerced into infiltrating the local branch of an opposition movement.

He said he was given a burner phone and sim cards to contact his FSB handler, and when "cooperation reached a higher level" he had in-person meetings at an unmarked apartment near the local FSB headquarters.

"At that time, he also began to receive money in exchange for cooperation," according to the indictment.

Rogov told his wife he had been recruited by the FSB, according to the indictment, which quotes her as saying he "probably received money for this, because he was not working at the time but he had money".

Later, in Poland, Rogov asked his wife to help him transfer to his handlers an encrypted USB stick with reports on Russian activists and others in Poland who might be of interest to the FSB. He gave her the USB stick to take on a visit to Russia hidden in a package together with souvenirs from Poland, and an address to post it to.

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The first court hearing in the Rogov case is scheduled for December 8.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, the so-called Russian oppositionist Igor R., who had received political asylum in Poland, was in fact working for Russia's FSB.

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