“Polska Amunicja can only act as an intermediary. Yet this intermediary was supposed to receive as much as PLN 10 billion!” — Bartosz Kownacki warned on X. The politician presented a response to a parliamentary inquiry indicating that the company headed by Paweł Poncyljusz does not hold a license to manufacture weapons and ammunition.
On February 12, Niezalezna.pl revealed that the largest beneficiary on the list of projects planned under the SAFE program is a private entity — Polska Amunicja. The company is led by Paweł Poncyljusz, a former MP of the Civic Coalition and its parliamentary candidate, previously also affiliated with Law and Justice. In 2024, he became CEO of MindMade, a company within the WB Group. He has served as CEO of Polska Amunicja — a company owned by the WB Group and PONAR Wadowice — since June 2024.
It is this company that is expected to receive as much as €2.3 billion from the EU SAFE loan to produce ammunition — approximately 300,000 units. The problem is that the entity currently has no independent production capacity. Moreover, as reported recently by Onet, although the company is said to be conducting pilot production, it does not even have a production facility at present.
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The lack of production capability is unsurprising, given that the company does not possess the legally required licenses. This was explicitly stated by Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administration Magdalena Roguska. In response to Bartosz Kownacki’s parliamentary inquiry (No. 15466), it reads:
“POLSKA AMUNICJA Sp. z o.o., headquartered at Plac Konstytucji 3, 00-647 Warsaw (KRS No. 0000520988, NIP 7123289361), holds a valid license issued by the Minister of the Interior and Administration, No. B-033/2020, granted on May 18, 2020 (as amended), for a period of 50 years, authorizing it to conduct business activity in the scope of trading in types of weapons and ammunition.”
As Kownacki points out, the company is only authorized to trade in weapons and ammunition, not to manufacture or store them.
“This means it can only act as an intermediary. And yet this intermediary was to receive as much as PLN 10 billion!” — the former Deputy Minister of National Defence emphasized.
Last week, President Karol Nawrocki vetoed the act implementing the EU SAFE mechanism. The president submitted his own draft bill to the Sejm, the so-called Polish “SEJF 0%.” In response to the veto, the Council of Ministers adopted a resolution on the “Polska Zbrojna Program.” It authorizes the Minister of National Defence and the Minister of Finance and Economy to represent the Polish government and sign, on its behalf, the agreement and documents concerning the SAFE loan, which will be taken out by Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego for the Armed Forces Support Fund. BGK’s financial liabilities arising from the SAFE loan will be guaranteed by the State Treasury.