If the prosecutor’s office started proceedings, launched an investigation, then that means there are grounds for it, government spokesman Piotr Müller said Tuesday in Polsat News when asked about the opening of an investigation into the abuse of powers by Donald Tusk.
The portal tvp.info reported on Monday that the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into abuses of power in 2014 by then-Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The report was made in November last year by the convict in the so-called wiretapping scandal, businessman Marek Falenta, and it referred to control in the Składy Węgla company, which he co-owned.
Asked about the case on Tuesday, a government spokesman said that “if there is information on the basis of which the prosecutor’s office is obliged to initiate proceedings, it should simply do so, whether it concerns Donald Tusk or anyone else.”
The host quoted Senator KO Krzysztof Brejza’s Twitter entry, which stated:
PiSokratura launched an investigation against Tusk because he had an inspection carried out at a company that imported Russian coal (??). Understood? Tusk allegedly overstepped his powers for fighting Russian coal imports. Tusk fought hard against Russian coal imports – this offends PiS supporters.
In response, Müller stated that “when someone from the PO, who was the pioneer or even the originator of the reset policy with Russia, points something out in this way, ironically, it keeps smiling.”
If the prosecutor’s office has initiated proceedings, if it has launched an investigation, it means that there are grounds for it. Otherwise there would be no investigation, no prosecution
added a government spokesman.
According to the message on the website of the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office, the investigation started on April 11 this year. on the abuse of power by a government official – Prime Minister Donald Tusk – on an undetermined date in the first half of 2014 “to obtain a financial advantage by entities dealing in coal through an order with no legal basis and no effective control over a commercial entity ie Węgla spółka z oo, to enforce the cessation of coal imports from the Russian Federation, thus acting to the detriment of the private interests of the above companies”.
As the prosecutor’s office wrote in the document published by the portal, it is about par. 2 art. 231 of the Penal Code regarding abuse of power by an officer. It provides that if the offender commits this act to gain material or personal gain, he will be punished with imprisonment from one to ten years.
In November 2022, the tvp.info portal reported that Falenta had filed such a report with the prosecutor’s office, as well as a lawsuit and a private complaint against the chairman of the Civic Platform at the District Court in Warsaw. He demands from Tusk, among other things, an apology and financial compensation to Ukraine.
In 2016, Falenta heard a valid sentence of absolute imprisonment in connection with the so-called wiretapping scandal. The case concerned the admission from July 2013 to June 2014, on behalf of Falenta, in Warsaw restaurants of people from politics, business and government officials. Among others included the then heads: the Ministry of the Interior – Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Radosław Sikorski, the Ministry of Infrastructure – Elżbieta Bieńkowska, the President of the National Bank of Poland Marek Belka, the head of the CBA Paweł Wojtunik. More than 100 people’s conversations were recorded during 66 illegally recorded meetings; the public prosecutor’s office managed to establish the identity of 97.
The court in Warsaw sentenced the businessman to 2.5 years in prison. Valid suspended sentences were also imposed on Falenta’s brother-in-law and one of the waiters in the case. Another waiter, Łukasz N., was not punished for helping the investigators; he was ordered to pay 50,000. PLN cash benefit.
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Source: wPolityce