Party activists, haters and lawyers close to power. Who else did Ziobro's ministry pay?
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Civil law contracts paid for by the Ministry of Justice employed activists from Sovereign Poland, prosecutors, neo-judges and experts whose legal expertise served to legitimize the actions of the former government. We have analyzed the ministry's expenses since 2019.
At the beginning of July Ministry of Justice published a register of over 4 thousand civil law contracts concluded with external entities in the years 2019-2023. In total, the ministry headed by Zbigniew Ziobro spent over a billion zlotys in this way.
This list includes both large contracts with IT companies, e.g. Asseco, with energy suppliers and the Polish Post, but also subsidy agreements for the Academy of Justice, dominated by Ziobro's followers, and contracts for services concluded with experts, interns and assistants.
For example, with a law student who in 2019 was involved in the “substantive analysis of letters” for the Reprivatization Commission headed by Patryk Jaki, but later decided to become a singer and influencer in the gaming industry, drawing heavily on the aesthetics of Japanese anime.
Or with Prof. Jacek Bartyzel, widower of PiS MP Małgorzata Bartyzel, monarchist and critic of democracy, who prepared a written opinion for the ministry entitled “The nature of LGBT ideology in the context of the principle of non-discrimination of persons based on the concepts used in the case law of administrative courts” (contract for specific work for PLN 2,000 gross).
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