Józef Pinior, a former opposition activist from the times of the Polish People’s Republic and a former senator, although he was sentenced to a year and six months in prison for corruption, he will not go to prison. The Court of Appeal in Wrocław legally decided that the former politician may serve his sentence in the electronic supervision system. Thus, he upheld the decision of the court of first instance. However, he changed the conditions of serving his sentence.
Józef Pinior (he agrees to provide his data – editor’s note), a former senator and one of the most important Lower Silesian opposition activists from the times of the Polish People’s Republic, was accused by the Greater Poland Branch of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor’s Office in Poznań of accepting bribes. The former politician was legally sentenced to 1.5 years imprisonment for corruption. His lawyer applied for the possibility of serving his sentence in the electronic supervision system, so that the former senator would not have to serve his sentence within the prison walls. In May, the court granted the request.
Now the question of how Józef Pinior is to be served is dealt with by the Court of Appeal in Wrocław. Judge Małgorzata Lamparska from the Court of Appeal in Wrocław says that the latter upheld the first instance court’s decision to serve a prison sentence by a former senator in the electronic supervision system. At the same time, the court changed the hours in which a convicted person may leave his place of residence “for gainful work and for dealing with current affairs”. In the first instance, it was from 10 am to 1 pm; The appellate court specified this time from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Judge Lamparska also informed that the appellate court had quashed the first-instance decision banning the convict from drinking alcohol, prohibiting the offender from engaging in gainful employment and maintaining contacts with persons of negative public opinion.
Sentenced to 1.5 years in prison
In early March, former Senator Józef Pinior and his assistant stayed sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for accepting bribes in the amount of at least PLN 40,000 PLN in exchange for arranging at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development and at the National Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Warsaw a favorable settlement of the case of the Lower Silesian businessman Tomasz G. Financial benefit in the amount of 20 thousand. they were to promise them, and give them 6,000. PLN and 5 thousand. PLN another two businessmen. The judgment is final. Pinior pleaded not guilty, as did his former assistant. However, in April the court reported that the execution of the sentence had been suspended. All because another motion concerning the former senator was brought to the court. His defense attorney wanted the former senator to be able to serve his sentence in the electronic supervision system. At the end of May, the court considered the motion in this case. The final speeches in the second Pinior trial are still pending before the Wrocław court. The former senator was accused of misrepresentation in asset declarations and collecting remuneration for missed lectures.
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