Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is just starting to understand what “Red is bad” means – wrote Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday afternoon on the X platform. On the same day, the creator of the mentioned brand, Paweł S., was charged.
Paweł S., transported to Poland on Wednesday from Dominican Republic creator of the Red is Bad brand, On Thursday, he was charged in the Silesian department of the National Prosecutor's Office in Katowice participation in an organized criminal group, committing crimes within this group together with other officials of the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves (RARS), as well as money laundering.
“Prime Minister Morawiecki is starting to understand what 'Red is bad' means. And for whom,” the prime minister wrote on Thursday afternoon on the X platform Donald Tusk.
Orders from RARS
Paweł S.'s connections with the administration Mateusz Morawiecki was described in detail by the Onet portal in June. “During the times of PiS, the authorities concluded a kind of alliance with the creator of the Red is Bad clothing brand, Paweł S****, serving to divert public money on an unprecedented scale,” and “for Morawiecki's team (former Prime Minister Mateusz – ed.) the entrepreneur became a supplier everything – from protective equipment in a pandemic to power generators during war,” the portal wrote.
According to Onet, within three years alone, Paweł S. received transfers worth half a billion zlotys, and he received orders from the Government Agency of Strategic Reserves without a tender.
Mateusz Morawiecki and Paweł S.
An investigation into irregularities in RARS was initiated on December 1, 2023. Currently, it is run by the Silesian Branch of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor's Office in Katowice. It concerns, among others, the abuse of powers and failure to fulfill duties by RARS employees when organizing and implementing the purchase of goods, and thus acting to the detriment of the public interest from February 23, 2021 to November 27, 2023 in Warsaw in order to obtain a financial benefit.
Main photo source: “Fakty” TVN/TVN24