The head of the Warsaw Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Michał Mistygacz, personally represented the public prosecutor in court today in the case concerning former Transport Minister Sławomir Nowak. After the hearing, he lashed out at the case officer. Even the judge examining the appeal pointed to the prosecution’s inconsistency.
The District Court in Warsaw upheld the discontinuation of the so-called Polish thread of the case involving former Transport Minister Sławomir Nowak. The court dismissed the prosecution’s appeal against the decision previously issued by assessor Arkadiusz Domasat. Today’s ruling was delivered by Judge Anna Szymacha-Zwolińska.
Before the court, the public prosecutor was represented by Prosecutor Michał Mistygacz, head of the Warsaw Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
“The original sin was committed at the very beginning of the proceedings,” Prosecutor Michał Mistygacz stated after the court announced its decision. “Firstly, it was the decision to combine everyone into a single set of proceedings, and secondly, the failure to verify the testimony of Mr. Jacek P. This was a mistake by Prosecutor Jan Drelewski,” Mistygacz said.
Meanwhile, even Judge Anna Szymacha-Zwolińska pointed out the prosecution’s lack of consistency in the case. Initially, before the district court, the prosecutor supported the motion to discontinue the case, and later her superior filed an appeal against that very decision.
Today’s ruling definitively brings the Polish thread of the Nowak case to a close.