That explains Giertych’s nervousness in recent days and his attempts to prevent Karol Nawrocki from becoming president—he wants to secure his own impunity. But sooner or later justice will return to Poland, and then an independent prosecution, without those various Iustitia judges, will bring the proceedings to a close and Mr Giertych will be put on trial, MP Michał Woś, chair of the Parliamentary Team for Combating Lawlessness – Safe Poland, tells the portal Niezależna.pl. This is how he comments on today’s publication of the reasoning behind the decision to discontinue the proceedings against Roman Giertych.
Secret reasoning becomes public
Journalists from Wirtualna Polska revealed yesterday the formerly classified reasoning behind the decision to discontinue the investigation against Roman Giertych in the so-called Polnord case. The charges against Giertych were deemed insufficient to establish that he might have committed an offence. According to the prosecutors, decisions to siphon money from Polnord were made by other co-defendants, while Giertych merely provided legal services to the companies they managed.
The prosecution argues there was no money laundering because the funds were clean; Giertych only set a high price for his services. Giertych himself maintains that the discontinuance became final because Polnord did not appeal the decision.
A closed-loop arrangement
Commenting on the information contained in the reasoning, MP Michał Woś emphasised that “the whole affair looks like a closed-loop arrangement. That’s why they took over the prosecution service—to bury exactly this sort of case. Bodnar has a task assigned by Tusk: to free all his pals from these kinds of charges.”
“It turns out that they, as an organised group, were behind all the scams. By discontinuing the case—keeping it classified for a long time—the prosecutors decided the brains of the entire criminal operation was not Roman Giertych. The scheme itself is obvious to Bodnar’s prosecutors because Krauze and Giertych’s bodyguard still face charges. Now it appears that the guilty party is not Roman Giertych, but a certain ‘Foka’, who set up various shell companies. And, oddly enough, the companies of Mr ‘Foka,’ who had no business experience, were entering lucrative contracts with billionaire Krauze. Unsurprisingly, this harmed the firm by siphoning off money to rescue his other ventures,” Woś explained.
He added: “If anyone in Poland believes the mastermind was Giertych’s right-hand man, and that Mr Giertych made his accounts available for what was effectively money-laundering (as the prosecutors claim), with his law firm also involved in the flows—as the General Inspector of Financial Information found—well, that’s laughable.” Woś insisted that “these people will go unpunished.”
“This also explains Giertych’s agitation in recent days and his attempts to stop Karol Nawrocki becoming president: he wants to guarantee his own impunity. But sooner or later justice will return to Poland; then an independent prosecution, without those various Iustitia judges, will finish the case and Mr Giertych will face court. His agitation is an effort to avoid that scenario—a battle for his own freedom, not merely for his reputation. And that explains a lot,” the PiS parliamentarian concluded.