Gdańsk. Corruption in the Pomeranian Voivodeship Office. An official was among those detained

Prosecutor Mariusz Duszyński, press spokesman for the District Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk, announced that Adriana S. was to accept financial benefits from various people from 2022 in exchange for accelerating the procedure for issuing an administrative decision regarding the legalization of stay in Poland. According to officers' estimates, the 51-year-old could earn at least PLN 30,000 a year this way.

During the arrests, officers seized official documentation, telephones, computers and memory media at their places of residence.

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The services also detained four foreigners who “in exchange for financial benefits transferred to the detained official, acted as intermediaries in accelerating the procedure for legalizing stay for many people.” According to investigators, the detainees allegedly demanded from several hundred to several thousand zlotys from individual people.

“The prosecutor presented Yuriy K. with a total of five charges of committing crimes involving invoking influence in the Pomeranian Voivodeship Office and providing financial benefits to a person holding a public function in connection with the performance of this function,” we read in a statement from the Gdańsk prosecutor's office.

Oybekjon T., Andrii B., and Yelizaveta J. were charged with providing a material benefit to a person performing a public function in connection with the performance of this function. Two people were placed in temporary custody for three months. The court imposed temporary arrest on two more people with the possibility of release from custody after paying a surety of PLN 140,000 and PLN 80,000.

The suspects face six months to eight years in prison. The investigation is ongoing and further arrests are possible.