A team of the National Prosecutor’s Office investigating the spending of funds from the so-called Justice Fund has been monitoring statements by Law and Justice (PiS) politicians unrelated to the substance of the charges. Among other things, the party’s October congress was scrutinized, as were opinions concerning the justice system reform planned by PiS after regaining power. The decision was issued by the head of the team, Piotr Woźniak, as evidenced by the content of a memo obtained by Niezależna.
The editorial team has reviewed the official memo dated October 28, 2025, signed by prosecutor Woźniak.
Congress under scrutiny
It follows that, on his order – as head of Investigative Team No. 2 of the National Prosecutor’s Office – online resources were examined to identify materials concerning statements made by Zbigniew Ziobro during the panel Poland of Justice – Reform of the Third Branch of Power, held at the Program Convention “Thinking Poland” in Katowice on October 25, 2025.
What were the investigators particularly interested in? As the memo states, special attention was paid to “statements concerning planned actions related to reforming the justice system in the event that today’s opposition regains power.”
The memo contains an absurd entry suggesting that plans to reform the justice system “may be linked to the proceedings conducted by Investigative Team No. 2 of the National Prosecutor’s Office against Marcin Romanowski and other suspects for an act under Article 231, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Criminal Code.”
The review covered the party’s website and the official PiS profile on the YouTube platform. Subsequently, fragments of statements were transcribed.
The memo lists the participants in the panel. In addition to Ziobro, these included party politicians such as Michał Woś, Paweł Jabłoński, and Marcin Warchoł, as well as academics Prof. Anna Łabno and Prof. Artur Kotowski, and the vice president of Ordo Iuris, Łukasz Bernaciński.
Barbarism and militant democracy
What did Ziobro say in Katowice, or what did other speakers say, that could have had any connection with the investigation into the Justice Fund? Exactly – nothing.
“Today, in Polish conditions, the word rule of law sounds like a bitter irony, because we live in a country where the authorities, as I would put it, blatantly violate the constitution and statutes and forcibly take over public media,” said Zbigniew Ziobro at the start of his speech.
The politician went on to list that “court presidents are being removed, the National Prosecutor is not being allowed into his office, judges of the Constitutional Tribunal are being destroyed by not paying them for their work,” he said.
“We are in fact dealing with barbarism which, under the mask of fighting for the rule of law and democracy, is actually introducing militant democracy. Because Donald Tusk once said so,” said Zbigniew Ziobro.
So far, the most high-profile action taken by Investigative Team No. 2, apart from the attempt to have Ziobro arrested, has been the deprivation of liberty of MP Marcin Romanowski, despite the fact that he was protected by immunity of the Council of Europe. Prosecutor Woźniak also handled the case of Father Michał Olszewski, linked to the Justice Fund.