“If the services were operating the way they should have, in 2014, after this information was revealed, Wojciech B. should have been dismissed from the service. That did not happen because the Government Protection Bureau was riddled with massive pathology,” said journalist Piotr Nisztor on Thursday. He was referring to an SOP officer who – as heard in recordings revealed by TV Republika – spoke about plans to murder a journalist. The “information” Nisztor referred to concerned the extraordinary relations between the uniformed officer and an arms dealer and one of the bosses of the French underworld, which he revealed ten years ago.
On Tuesday evening, TV Republika aired a recording of a conversation in which State Protection Service (SOP) officer Wojciech B. speaks directly about kidnapping, torturing, and then murdering and burning the body of investigative journalist Piotr Nisztor from the Free Speech Zone (Strefa Wolnego Słowa). This was allegedly meant as revenge against the investigative journalist who in 2014 described this officer’s cooperation with an arms dealer wanted by French police.
On Thursday, journalist Nisztor recalled his findings. The arms dealer in question is Pierre Dadak, who during the previous Civic Platform (PO)–Polish People’s Party (PSL) governments had a contract with the Polish arms holding Bumar. The French criminal sold Polish weapons to African and Latin American markets.
“This whole story concerns January 2012. At that time, the then president of The Gambia sent a plane for Pierre Dadak. Along with the arms dealer, two officers of the Government Protection Bureau boarded the aircraft, including Wojciech B. They were flying to talk about arms trade, about the sale of weapons to that African country,” he said.
As he went on to explain, at one point the plane made a stopover in Marseille. Then… a boss of the local underworld boarded the aircraft. “Just imagine it from the perspective of state security. A man who protects the head of Polish diplomacy [Radosław Sikorski] flies on the same plane not only with an arms dealer but also with a gangster, a criminal, to talk about business,” he said.
“The matter is simple – if the services were operating the way they should have, in 2014, after this information was revealed, Wojciech B. should have been dismissed from the service. That did not happen because the Government Protection Bureau was riddled with massive pathology. Officers who on a daily basis protected the most important people in the state earned extra money after hours in various places, including by protecting people such as the arms dealer Pierre Dadak,” he подчеркнул.
As he added, he spoke with Dadak about Wojciech B. “One thing that was shocking was that, as if, Dadak was afraid of Wojciech B. He said he did not want to talk about him, that he was a very decent man, and so on. That is, the legend, the myth that Wojciech B. carried with him, in fact until the moment these recordings were revealed, is extraordinary […] This is a legend of the State Protection Service, or earlier the Government Protection Bureau. This is a man known to everyone in that service, and not only in that service, but in all of them,” he said.