Edgar K., a 25-year-old associate of former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Piotr Wawrzyk, who allegedly helped sell Polish visas to Indian citizens, was charged with paid protection in April and was arrested – Wirtualna Polska found out.
According to Onet, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Piotr Wawrzyk was expelled from the government and from the lists PIS, because he helped his colleagues create an illegal channel for transporting immigrants from Asia and Africa through Europe to the United States. The portal presented details of one of the most impressive transfers of illegal immigrants from… India. According to reports, the Indians recruited by Wawrzyk posed as Bollywood film crews. Everyone paid 25-40 thousand dollars to be transferred to America.
The portal drew attention to the character of Edgar K., a 25-year-old co-worker of Wawrzyk, who is “a key figure in this story.” “It is difficult to determine exactly how close their relations are. All we know is that he comes from the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship – where Wawrzyk is an MP – and since the beginning of PiS rule, he has been doing extremely well. Right-wing organizations associated with him are subsidized by the government with millions of zlotys. In addition, the mentioned The 25-year-old was elected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the youth delegate of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations. And relations with UN “apart from visa policy, they were one of Wawrzyk’s tasks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” it was written.
WP: Edgar K. with allegations
As Wirtualna Polska found out, Edgar K. was charged in April this year in the Lublin Branch of the Department of Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin. “Investigators charged him with paid protection, and the collected material was so strong that on April 28, the Lublin-Zachód District Court decided to arrest Edgar K. for three months,” writes WP. He is no longer to be held in custody.
The deputy director of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor’s Office, Daniel Lerman, said on Thursday during a press conference that in the case of the so-called Seven people were charged in the visa scandal. – Thanks to the efficient operation of the services, the prosecutor of the local department of the National Prosecutor’s Office brought charges against seven people in this proceeding. Three people are under temporary arrest, he said.
Lerman was asked whether former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Piotr Wawrzyk was among the seven people who heard the charges. – There are no charges against government officials among the suspects – he replied.
Ministry of Foreign AffairsWojciech Olkuśnik / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
As reported by WP, Edgar K. was previously active in several non-governmental organizations. From 2020 to 2022, he was a member of the board of the Osnowa Foundation, vice-president of the Polish Institute of Leaders Foundation (in 2020-23), president of the Serwis Niepodległej Foundation (in 2021-22) and member of the board of the Kujawski Institute of Patriotic Thought (in 2022-23).
He is listed in the court register as a member of the management board of the Confederation of Non-Governmental Initiatives of the Republic of Poland.
In connection with the case, we sent questions to the Lublin Branch of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin.
Wirtualna Polska, tvn24.pl
Main photo source: Wojciech Olkuśnik / Agencja Wyborcza.pl