Ewa Wrzosek. The motion to waive the immunity of the prosecutor – Supreme Court was withdrawn

At the end of March, the Supreme Court postponed the next hearing on the immunity of prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek. As reported then, the proceedings were transferred to another prosecutor's office, which must review them.

– A prosecutor from Łódź was present in the courtroom, so I know for sure that this case was transferred from Szczecin to Łódź for examination. The Supreme Court granted the prosecutor's request that he have time to familiarize himself with all the materials in this case, including classified ones, prosecutor Wrzosek told journalists then. The hearings on this matter were held in private.

The next date for the case to be heard by the Chamber of Professional Responsibility was set by Supreme Court judge Zbigniew Korzeniowski for April 23.

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On Thursday, the deputy spokesman of the Supreme Court, Piotr Falkowski, said that the Supreme Court had received a letter from the regional prosecutor from Łódź withdrawing the motion to lift the immunity of prosecutor Wrzosek. In this application, the prosecutor from Łódź requests that the proceedings be discontinued. The Supreme Court will now have to – after reviewing the prosecutor's letter – make a formal decision on this matter.

Earlier, the refusal to waive the immunity finally ended the second application related to this investigation – against prosecutor Małgorzata Mróz.

Requests to waive the immunity of two Warsaw investigators – Mróz and Wrzosek – were submitted at the end of 2022 as part of an investigation into the disclosure of information from criminal proceedings to unauthorized persons. The charges leveled against them by the Szczecin Regional Prosecutor's Office at that time included providing unauthorized persons with information from ongoing proceedings, failure to fulfill official duties and – against Prosecutor Wrzosek – also involvement in political activities.

Prosecutor Wrzosek, who spoke about this investigation, denied the content published then by the Szczecin prosecutor's office. She added that her phone was under surveillance using the Pegasus system, which allows the manipulation of content on electronic devices.

According to the prosecutor's office, the background to the charges was the 2020 presidential campaign and two Warsaw bus accidents that occurred at that time. The first one occurred near the bridge. Grota-Roweckiego, one person died. The bus driver was then accused of driving after taking drugs.

According to the prosecutor's office, Michał D., acting as Director of the Security and Crisis Management Office of the Capital City Office. Warsaw, using his acquaintance with prosecutor Wrzosek, expected that the investigator would inform him about the findings of the proceedings regarding the accident. The prosecutor's office revealed fragments of electronic correspondence between the prosecutors and the official. According to the Szczecin prosecutor's office, Wrzosek – having no direct access to the case – allegedly obtained information about the proceedings from her friend, prosecutor Mróz, and passed it on to Michał D.

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In April last year, the Supreme Court in the Chamber of Professional Responsibility refused to waive the immunity of prosecutor Mróz. The justification was secret.

The Szczecin prosecutor's office then stated that “the Supreme Court, without questioning the findings of the preparatory proceedings and the evidence collected by the Regional Prosecutor in Szczecin, found that the prosecutor's behavior consisting in, among other things, providing information from the conducted proceedings to unauthorized persons was characterized by negligible social harmfulness in the circumstances of the case in question.” “. In turn, Mróz's defense lawyer, Karolina Miara-Olearczyk, told the media that “meanwhile, the main reason why the Supreme Court did not accept the prosecutor's request was definitely different.”

The Szczecin prosecutor's office filed a complaint against that decision in the case of prosecutor Mróz. At the beginning of March this year. “Gazeta Wyborcza” reported that the new regional prosecutor in Szczecin, Wojciech Szcześniak, withdrew the complaint in the immunity case of prosecutor Mróz. Therefore, on March 25 this year, Judge Barbara Skoczkowska, examining the complaint, decided to leave this complaint unconsidered. Ultimately, this ended that thread of the case.

Meanwhile, prosecutor Wrzosek told journalists in March that she had no doubts “about the political motivation” of the Szczecin prosecutors handling her case in this case.

– These cases are related and the withdrawal of the appeal means that prosecutor Mróz did not commit a crime. And if this act was to be closely related to the behavior of prosecutor Wrzosek, then there is only one conclusion: prosecutor Wrzosek also could not have committed a crime – said prosecutor Jarosław Onyszczuk, prosecutor Wrzosek's defense attorney in the immunity case. He added that he hoped that the new prosecutor from Łódź would “make an objective and impartial assessment” in this case.