Former Deputy Minister of the Treasury from PSL Jan B. and 12 other accused were questioned before a court in a trial regarding corruption. Investigators accused the former People's Politicalist, among others, that he accepted 813 thousand zlotys as a bribe and a bars of gold. The case is related to the Podkarpackie scandal.
The auditions of the accused in the trial of the former MP and deputy minister of the State Treasury Jan B. accused, among others for corruption-a spokeswoman for the District Court in Tarnów Małgorzata Stanisławczyk-Karpiel. In this thread, the so -called 13 people were accused of the Podkarpackie scandal.
During subsequent hearings – as the spokeswoman announced – witnesses will be questioned. The District Court in Tarnów, where the trial is pending, appointed it to: 14, 16 and 17 July, 18, 20 and 21 August, 3 and 4 September. In September, he will set subsequent dates, because then more than half of the witnesses will remain until the interrogation.
Source: tvn24
– It is difficult to predict at the current stage of the trial when the sentence is passed- emphasized judge Stanisławczyk-Karpiel.
One of the threads of the Podkarpackie scandal
The trial of Jan B. and 12 other people are one of the threads of the so -called Podkarpackie scandal. Let us remind you that The Podkarpackie scandal is a high -profile CBA from 2015 towards two key politicians at the time: Jan B. and Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Zbigniew R. Z PO. According to the prosecutor's office, both were to be stuck in a corrupt system with a Podkarpackie entrepreneur from the fuel industry Marian D., as well as with an influential clergy, confessor John Paul II and priest of the Polish Army Department Robert M.
In the thread regarding Jan B., investigators accuse the accused with a total of 26 crimes. The spokeswoman announced that the matters of two of these accused – Marian D. and Bogusław P. – were excluded from the trial of Jan B. and will take place as separate proceedings. The reason for this is the submission by these two accused of a declaration of willingness to voluntarily submit to punishment.
In the District Court in Tarnów The trial of Jan B. began at the end of April after about three and a half years, since the indictment came to the court. At the beginning of 2022, the case was in the District Court in Rzeszów. However, he requested that it be transferred to another court because of the good of the judiciary. At the beginning of 2024 Supreme Court He decided to be recognized by the District Court in Tarnów. In December 2024, the defense of the accused requested that the District Court deal with it due to the importance of the case.
The Court of Appeal in Krakow, where the application was submitted to the case to the District Court, did not accept it. The decision was justified by, among others The fact that the case does not exhaust the features of a “special importance”, despite the fact that “the person of the perpetrator or the crime accused of becomes shocking and evoking emotions among a wider community.”
Gold bar and PLN 813 thousand
Jan B. – former PSL MPmember of the National Council of the Judiciary and the Deputy Minister of the Treasury – according to the prosecutor's office, he accepted bribes, including 813,000 PLN in cash, gold bars worth over 128 thousand. PLN and an interest -free loan of 150 thousand. zloty. In addition to corruption, he is accused of urging to exceed the rights and disclose information related to performing public functions.
Investigators accused the MP from Rzeszów that he had accepted from Leżajsk entrepreneur Marian D. Łapówka in exchange for brokering in favorable handling of numerous cases. It was about obtaining preferential commercial relations with established entities, a favorable judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court for the businessman and the appointment of the entrepreneur's daughter to the office of a judge.
The politician was also accused of helping to give a bribe to Robert M., urging a local government official, a tax officer and a police commander to reveal information obtained in connection with the performance of official activities.
The former MP was also accused of persuading the former prosecutor Zbigniew N. to give 100,000. PLN bribes in exchange for a judge to not take into account a possible application for arrest for this prosecutor.
According to investigators, the politician was also to accept the financial benefit from Roman B. In exchange for, among others Settlement of a transfer to another official position in the police.
A former MP had from a businessman Marian D. (already legally convicted) to receive at least 800 thousand. PLN and a kilo of gold bars in return through brokering in dealing with cases in the Supreme Administrative Court, the National Council of the Judiciary and the Directorate of State Forests in Krosno.
The defendants were the police deputy head and officials
As the prosecutor's office informed, Among the accused is also the former deputy commander of the Police for criminal Mirosław S.former Tax Commissioner at the Tax Control Office in Rzeszów Jan M., and former staroste of Przeworsk poviat Zbigniew K. men were accused of, among others exceeding the rights and disclosure to Jan B. information obtained in connection with the performance of official activities.
The accusation also includes Robert B., Józef F. and Józef W., who were repeatedly to accept bribes from Marian D. in exchange for maintaining preferential trade relations with established companies. Roman B., Maciej K., Urszula R. and Bogusław P., whose acts are associated with crimes accused of Jan B. and Marian D.
Podkarpackie scandal
In the so -called The Podkarpackie scandal has a total of over 50 people. Among them, among others: former deputy minister of infrastructure, former heads of Rzeszów prosecutor's offices, Podkarpackie businessman from the fuel industry and its partners, former president and former vice president of the Rafineria Jasło, director of the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno, former head of the tax control department at the second tax office in Rzeszów, head of a team dealing with corporate banking Office of State Protection in Rzeszów, former president NIKformer members of the PGE Renewable Energia Board, former ABW officer and inspectors of the Poviat Building Supervision Inspectorate in Nisko.
Some threads ended with the act of accusation, and some also with final judgments. In January 2017, Marian D. was sentenced to a total penalty of four years imprisonment. In March 2018 A former officer of the Internal Security Agency was also convinced as a result of the investigation.
In January 2020, the former marshal of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship Mirosław K. heard a final judgment of three years imprisonment. PLN fine and forfeiture of property was heard by former Rzeszów prosecutor Zbigniew N. In January 2022, the re -judgment (after cassation in the Supreme Court) was passed for the former head of the Appellate Prosecutor's Office in Rzeszów Anna H. condemning her by the Tarnów District Court in six years of absolute imprisonment, taking into account the assassination of a financial benefit of 60,000 PLN, from which the court previously acquitted her.
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