Karol Nawrocki has taken to social media to expose the kinds of questions being asked by auditors from the Supreme Audit Office (NIK), led by Marian Banaś, during their scrutiny of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).
Since the beginning of the year, NIK has been conducting intensive audits at the IPN — an institution currently headed by Nawrocki, who is also running for president of Poland. The audit team appears to be working under pressure to release their report before the election, which could damage a candidate who has recently stirred significant controversy within the liberal-left establishment backing Rafał Trzaskowski.
Today, Nawrocki shed light on the nature of the ongoing audit. In a social media post, he shared an example of what he described as an absurd question posed by the auditors.
“The @ipngovpl audit by NIK has truly hit rock bottom. Among roughly 3,000 questions, there are also ones like:
‘Why was it necessary to fully fund the trip of 46 people (including descendants of former KL Ravensbrück prisoners, members of the Ravensbrück Prisoners’ Families Association, a representative of the Ne Cedat Academia Association, and scouts) to Ravensbrück for the 79th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, given that IPN was only a co-organizer of the trip?’”
Nawrocki continued with a pointed remark:
“The real question should be: why are Polish taxpayers funding the work of dozens of NIK auditors who, for months, have been undermining another public institution just because its president is running for president?”