Three people, including two employees of the District Court in Łódź, were detained in an investigation into fraud and money laundering. According to the prosecutor's office, it is estimated that nearly one million zlotys disappeared from the court. However, it is possible that after re-estimation the total losses will be greater.
The Regional Prosecutor's Office in Łódź, based on materials collected by the CBA, initiated an investigation into fraud of significant value to the detriment of the State Treasury – the District Court in Łódź and money laundering.
“The prosecutor's office has three people detained on Tuesday, January 21, 2024, including two employees of the secretariat of one of the departments of this court,” prosecutor Krzysztof Kopania, spokesman for the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Łódź, announced on Wednesday.
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The money ended up in the secretarial employee's account
Kopania emphasized that “according to estimates, the total losses amount to nearly one million zlotys, but may increase.” The spokesman noted that the criminal activity had been going on for “many years.”
As the prosecutor explained, the collected evidence shows that the extorted amounts constituting the alleged reimbursement of court fees and costs, based on forged documents, including final judgments, were transferred to numerous bank accounts of the 40-year-old secretarial employee.
The money withdrawn from the account of the District Court in Łódź on the basis of forged instructions for court judgments was transferred to numerous bank accounts of a 40-year-old secretarial employee.
“Probably some of them were then transferred to the accounts of his 31-year-old wife and a woman employed in the same department,” Kopania revealed.
Charges coming soon
On Thursday, the prosecutor's office is to decide on whether to charge individual suspects and apply preventive measures against them.
This includes, among others: an allegation of fraud, which the suspect turned into a permanent source of income. According to the prosecutor, the suspects face a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.
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