In the justification for dismissing the case against Sławomir Nowak, court assessor Arkadiusz Domasat referred to findings regarding the so-called Shark Club. “This informal business-social organization was said to have been created shortly after the PO–PSL coalition took power in Poland,” wrote Gazeta Polska. And what did the assessor conclude? While accusing the prosecution of relying on “presumptions,” he himself stopped at… presumptions.
In 2022, Gazeta Polska accessed the public part of the indictment. The document showed that one of the threads of the case was the activity of the so-called Shark Club. This informal business-social organization was said to have been created shortly after the PO–PSL coalition took power in Poland.
Among the founders of the “Shark Club” — according to the indictment — were, alongside Nowak, also Jacek P., his friend and neighbor, and Leszek K., a manager in the media-marketing sector (all of them were included in the indictment). The members of the organization were said to support each other, conduct joint business, and share their earnings equally. Symbolically, each one received… a shark tooth.
Let us recall: Nowak’s case was dismissed by court assessor Arkadiusz Domasat. In the justification he prepared, the 29-year-old referred to the activities of the Shark Club.
“There is no doubt that the factual findings in this regard have no connection whatsoever with the alleged criminal relations between the accused,” he stated categorically — without even questioning a single witness.
Domasat on the Shark Club: “Arbitrary presumptions”
Interestingly, Domasat admitted that Leszek K. did, in fact, possess shark teeth.
“The defendants’ depositions showed that indeed, while abroad on vacation, Leszek K. acquired shark teeth and gifted them to people in his circle. However, no factual findings prove that behind this ‘organization’ there were any agreements concerning the planning, organizing, or carrying out of alleged corrupt transactions,” the justification reads. “The case files did not show that any shark teeth were secured in the course of these proceedings,” the assessor added.
Domasat assessed that the prosecutor, in the so-called Shark Club, “sought to find a network of agreements, conversations, arrangements, or some kind of corrupt collaboration,” but that these were merely “arbitrary presumptions.”