Head of the Pegasus commission, Magdalena Sroka: hearing of Piotr Pogonowski on December 2, the court decided to bring

Piotr Pogonowski did not appear at the meetings of the Pegasus committee three times, citing the September ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal declaring the work of the committee unconstitutional.

After seeking the opinion of legal experts, the commission concluded that the situation qualifies for the use of coercive measures in the form of forcibly bringing a witness.

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– On Wednesday, the Pegasus committee received information that the District Court in Warsaw issued a decision according to which Mr. Piotr Pogonowski was fined PLN 3,000 for the last failure to appear and at the same time approved the committee's request to detain and forcibly bring the witness to the meeting – she said head of the commission Magdalena Sroka (PSL-TD).

According to her, Pogonowski's hearing was scheduled for December 2 at 10. – This meeting is planned in part openly, but in the other part in a secret form – she added.

Sroka explained that the former head of the Internal Security Agency is an important witness because he was responsible for the Agency when the Pegasus system was purchased. She indicated that the Internal Security Agency also used spy software.

Piotr Pogonowski served as the head of ABW from 2016 to 2020. Currently, he is a member of the management board of the National Bank of Poland, where he is responsible for the administration, security and controlling departments. In the past, he was also the director of the office of the head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau Mariusz Kamiński and unsuccessfully ran for the Sejm from the list PIS in 2011.

So far, the commission has heard, among others: former deputy prime minister and president of PiS Jarosław Kaczyńskiformer deputy minister of justice, politician of Sovereign Poland Michał Woś, former director of the Department of Family and Juvenile Affairs at the Ministry of Justice Mikołaj Pawlak and other employees of the Ministry of Justice.

The Pegasus Commission of Inquiry is examining the legality, correctness and purposefulness of activities undertaken using this software, including: by the government, secret services and police from November 2015 to November 2023. The Commission is also to determine who was responsible for the purchase of Pegasus and similar tools for the Polish authorities.