At the moment, we actually have over three million in revenue in the budget, and another ten in the process – said Barbara Nowacka, Minister of Education, on TVN24 about the settlement of the Willa Plus program. As she added, “this is not the only program in which we recover money”. Speaking about one of them, she pointed out that “strangely enough, among these beneficiaries there can be people like Mr. Rydzyk”.
In Thursday's edition of “One on One” on TVN24, the Minister of Education Barbara Nowacka (Civic Coalition) referred to the issue of settling the willa plus program. – We have conducted inspections, we do them in such packages. Out of 10 inspections, seven contain irregularities that result in the rejection of the settlement. At the moment, we already have over three million in revenues in the budget, and ten in the process – she stated.
She noted that “this is not the only program in which we recover money”. – The next one was the so-called investments in education. Money flows into the next one. Besides, Minister (Joanna – ed.) Mucha (Secretary of State – ed.), who supervises the issues of projects and settlements, filed a report to the prosecutor's office, because in the competition, which was announced as a competition on the principle of “first come, first served”, two thousand offers were not opened at all – she said.
– However, strangely, the money managed to reach those who submitted applications on the last day, in the last hours. And strangely, among these beneficiaries there can be people like Mr. Rydzyk. This is generally such a specific mechanism of functioning in various programs. This dishonesty, this operation under the finger was unfortunately very clearly visible – she noted.
Nowacka: procedures to make it possible to steal
The Minister of Education also pointed out that “in some programs, the funding went exactly to the places where, for example, Minister (Przemysław – ed.) Czarnek came from”, the former Minister of Education. – In one of the programs, the most money went to the Lublin region, less to Mazovia, although there are many more schools here – she said.
As she stated, “Mr. Czarnek's local patriotism, done against the procedures, was also visible at the villa plus”. – Even when the expert's assessment was negative, the money was awarded. What's more, in some cases the experts issued positive opinions and awarded, say, 70 thousand, and Minister Czarnek changed the decision to 100 thousand – Nowacka explained.
– You can see patterns where money was allocated according to a specific key. The minister was simply from another province – she commented. – They created procedures so that it was possible to steal without restrictions – she added.
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