Polish special services searched the homes of the ex-minister and his subordinates

The house of the former Minister of Justice and concurrently the Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobra was also searched, the media reported with reference to the prosecutor’s office. The prosecutor’s office indicted seven people, including employees of the Ministry of Justice, Reuters later wrote.

After eight years in power, the PiS party switched to the opposition following its defeat in the parliamentary elections last October.

The new government, formed by a coalition of pro-European parties led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, promises that prosecutors, now freed from political pressure, will bring to justice anyone who broke the law under the PiS government.

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Special services already searched the ex-minister’s house on Tuesday, and the prosecutor’s office announced that they had detained four people, three of whom worked at the Ministry of Justice, and one recipient of the funds.

Today it was time to inspect the room of former Deputy Minister of Justice Michal Woś in the parliamentary hotel in Warsaw and another house belonging to Ziobr’s relatives, the prosecutor’s office said.

The former head of the audit office testified today before the investigative commission that he has evidence that the ministry under the former leadership purchased the Pegasus program from a fund intended for victims of crimes for 25 million zlotys (about 147 million CZK), which, according to the new government, was deployed against PiS opponents. but also to spy on some politicians from the ruling party at the time.

According to the media, the funds were also used to attract PiS voters in the countryside, for example by buying fire extinguishers or equipment for housewives’ associations.

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“I have nothing to blame, everything was legal when I was overseeing the justice fund. I filed a complaint,” Woś declared.

Lawmakers from Tusk’s Civic Platform told reporters they want to ask the election commission to investigate the funds used by PiS during last year’s campaign.

If the investigation reveals illegal financing, PiS could lose nearly 100 million zlotys in state funding over four years, MP Dariusz Joński said.

Ziobro told reporters that he had to stop the chemotherapy he is undergoing after an operation for esophageal cancer. He called the house search a “spectacle for bandits” and an “injustice” committed on the orders of Prime Minister Tusk and Justice Minister Adam Bodnar.

During the PiS government, Ziobro was the main architect of the controversial judicial reform, which, according to critics, weakened the independence of the courts. He had previously denied that he had committed anything illegal, the Reuters agency wrote.