Around the investigation concerning the “Pegasus” software, there has been a public exchange of statements between the current and former heads of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA). After CBA head Tomasz Strzelczyk assured cooperation between the Bureau and the prosecutor’s office, the post was sharply responded to by former CBA head Andrzej Stróżny.
On Friday, the spokesperson of the National Prosecutor’s Office, prosecutor Przemysław Nowak, announced additional charges brought in the investigation concerning the use of the “Pegasus” software, which has been conducted since April 2024 by Investigation Team No. 3 of the National Prosecutor’s Office.
Supplementary charges were brought against former CBA officers Jarosław W. and Katarzyna S., who had already been charged in the case in June 2025. The spokesperson of the National Prosecutor’s Office also reported charges against Angela P., who before they were announced held the position of expert in the Operational and Investigative Department of the Warsaw CBA Delegation. Government Plenipotentiary for Special Services spokesperson Jacek Dobrzyński also commented on the case. In a post on the X platform, he emphasized that after the charges were brought, the officer was immediately dismissed.
Statement by the CBA head
On Sunday, CBA head Tomasz Strzelczyk took a stance on the matter. In a statement posted on the X platform, he emphasized that his priority is for the Bureau to operate in full compliance with the law. He stressed that he himself follows the principle that no one is above the law, regardless of position or function held.
In the interest of properly conducted proceedings, the CBA cooperates with the prosecutor’s office. This also applies to the investigation concerning the acquisition and use of the so-called “Pegasus system”, in which, after two years, the prosecution brought charges of committing a crime against, among others, an active female officer, which resulted in her immediate dismissal from service – Strzelczyk wrote. He assured that any actions violating legal provisions or internal procedures would be met with an immediate and decisive response. He also stressed that he takes full responsibility for the personnel policy currently conducted in the Bureau.
Strong reaction from Stróżny. “You will talk about all of this in due time”
The current head of the Bureau’s statement was commented on by his predecessor – former CBA head Andrzej Stróżny. In his response, he formulated a series of questions and allegations directed at Tomasz Strzelczyk.
Stróżny wrote that his successor should explain to the public and to the prosecutor why, on what legal basis, on whose order, and in whose interest he provided the so-called Pegasus commission with information concerning the means, forms, and methods of operational work of the special services.
The former CBA head stated that these are information subject to special protection, the disclosure of which is permitted only in strictly defined cases under the law and only to strictly defined entities. He also criticized the filing of reports against officers to the prosecutor’s office, suggesting that it was done, as he wrote, to “satisfy the expectations of political overseers”.
In the further part of his statement, Stróżny accused his successor of allegedly knowing how members of the commission used the obtained knowledge and what political narrative they built around the materials. He also asked why Strzelczyk decided to do something that – as he claims – other heads of services, aware of the risks and consequences, including those related to state security, had refused to do.
The former CBA head concluded his post by asking what “expectations, promises or benefits” were – in his view – to open up before the current head of the Bureau after carrying out what he described as a “political task”. He suggested that some of them may already have been fulfilled.