Ziobro submits a notification to the prosecutor's office regarding the attempt to deprive him of freedom by the Pegasus Commission

PiS MP Zbigniew Ziobro said that he submitted a notification to the prosecutor's office of suspected crime in connection with – as he assessed – an illegal attempt to deprive him of freedom for up to 30 days. The Sejm inquiry commission for Pegasus applied for arrest against Ziobra in order to listen to him.

On Thursday, the Sejm inquiry commission for Pegasus for the 6th time tried to question the former Minister of Justice; Earlier – after he did not appear several times – the Commission requested that the court be arrested for up to 30 days against Ziobra to be able to interrogate him. The court did not accept this application; In his opinion, “The Commission withdrew from the possibility of hearing the witness, despite the fact that he was brought to the commission” on January 31 – on the day of the previous planned interrogation.

On Friday, the boss of MS informed at a press conference that he was directed to the prosecutor's office “about the suspicion of committing a crime in connection with the illegal attempt to insidious deprivation of his freedom for a month”. In Ziobra's opinion, the court found the commission's request unfounded. The court – according to Ziobra – also decided that he did not have to take the evidence for which the former head of MS requested, because “he stated that the facts presented by the pseudo -communication are false and manipulated” and serve, without a basis, consent to his arrest.

“This is the first case since 1989, when officially on the court's forum it was possible to hear, see and read that the authorities attempted a manipulated and insidious deprivation of a deputy based on caused false documents that did not correspond to reality that was a lie even in a collision with documents provided by the police and the Marshal's Guard, subject to the same power.”

This, in his opinion, shows “the fierceness of Donald Tusk and his political community”, which “decided to attempt illegal, insidious arrest representatives of the largest opposition party”, i.e. PiS.

In the opinion of Ziobra, these activities are also part of the events of the Thursday meeting of the parliamentary investigation commission to which he was called. It was the sixth attempt to interrogate him. When he did not appear, the Commission announced that he was submitting to the court a request for punishment. Ziobro later stated that the Commission “could not even effectively send the notification on time” – the call for the interrogation had a date of receipt by the end of the Post Office work on Thursday.

In addition, Ziobro, refusing to appear on the commission, constantly cites the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of the CT of the September year, which ruled that the resolution of the Sejm on the establishment of this committee is unconstitutional. This judgment – like the others since March last year – was not published in the Journal of Laws.

At the Thursday meeting, the chairwoman of the inquiry commission Magdalena Sroka said that “there was no doubt that Zbigniew Ziobro knew perfectly well that the date of interrogation was set for today.” She added that “such information reached him on April 7”.

The previous attempt to hear Ziobra took place on January 31. After he did not appear at the meeting several times, the Commission asked the court to stop the MP and bring him to the interrogation. The Sejm repealed his immunity for this purpose, and the District Court in Warsaw agreed to this. The police detained Ziobra on the day of the meeting of the investigation commission after 10.30, when he finished interviewing at the headquarters of Telewizja Republika. The start of the meeting of the investigation commission was scheduled for 10.30; Since Ziobra was not in the meeting until this hour, the investigation commission recognized the former minister as ineffective and decided to direct the application for order to him up to 30 days of arrest.

On March 31, the Warsaw District Court did not grant the application to apply prison against the former head of MS. Court spokeswoman judge Anna Ptaszek announced that “the commission withdrew from the possibility of interrogating the witness, despite the fact that he was brought to the committee.” Ziobro himself has repeatedly emphasized that he did not resist detention on January 31 and assessed that the investigation commission did not want to question him, since she closed the meeting when he was on his way. In addition, the former Minister of Justice, like other PiS politicians, believes that the Sejm inquiry commission operates illegally and recalls the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal on the unconstitutionality of the establishment of the Pegasus committee.

Trela ​​on Radio TOK FM said on Thursday that the date of the next interrogation of Ziobra would be appointed at the end of May or the beginning of June.

The Commission is investigating whether the use of Pegasus surveillance software by the government, special services and the police at a time when PiS ruled was lawful. The Commission is also to determine who was responsible for the purchase of Pegasus and similar tools for Polish authorities. According to those previously transferred, incl. by NIK, information, the Pegasus system was purchased in autumn 2017 for the CBA, from funds from the main part (PLN 25 million) from the Justice Fund (supervised by the Ministry of Justice). (PAP)

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