Security agency requested to remove Sviridov

A request from the Internal Security Agency (ABW) resulted in the withdrawal of accreditation for Leonid Sviridov, a Russian journalist, reported Polish Radio. According to the agency, Sviridov had strange business and lobbying activities. Wprost weekly wrote about the lobbying activity in 2013. Sviridov was said to have organized trips for Polish journalists to Russia and had cooperated with a firm aiming to take over the Polish Azoty chemical company. "I've never worked with special forces of any country," said Sviridov in an RMF FM radio interview. He added that an offer to work with special forces was made, but it wasn't an offer from Russia. Furthermore, he rejected the proposal. He said that he has no ill feelings towards Poland.