All controversies that risk affecting the new president of Poland, supported in the campaign by George Simion

Karol Nawrocki, a conservative historian supported by the right-wing and justice opposition party (PIS) and the Trump administration, will take over his mandate on Wednesday, after winning two months ago the presidential poll before the pro-European candidate Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor of Var.

Nawrocki, 42 years old, historian and amateur boxer, failed to calm the noise around him caused by a series of scandals, some surrealist, who came to light during the election campaign, Polito comments.

Despite the immunity insurance of the highest function in the state, its past of Huligan and a real estate transaction that caused prosecutors to open a criminal investigation to follow the American President Donald Trump to the Belwer Palace.

Nawrocki's election campaign, in which he appeared to support him including George Simion, was stained with disclosures about his past.

The controversies vary from a bizarre event of 2018, when he appeared disguised in a TV intervention, claiming to be a police writer to praise himself, to the much more serious accusations involving Gansgteners and prostitutes in a luxury hotel on the Baltic Sea.

Former President Lech Wałęsa, a dissident laureate of the Nobel award that led the Solidarity Movement that overturned the communist regime in Poland, said he refuses to participate in the “shameful show” of Nawrocki's investment.

Politico reviewed the controversies that can follow the new President of Poland, an important NATO and the fifth most populated country in the EU.

The investigation on the apartment

Prosecutors opened a criminal investigation to determine if an elderly man, identified only as Jerzy Z., was deceived between 2012 and 2017 at the sale of his apartment in the city of Gdansk, in the north of the country. Prosecutors did not call Nawrocki, but investigate the circumstances of the purchase of the property.

One of the official complaints of Veică in this case was from the mayor of Gdansk, Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, a member of the Liberal Party and the Civic coalition of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The investigation focuses on the fact whether Jerzy Z was cheated to transfer the property of 28,000 euros in exchange for “caring and assistance in everyday life”.

Fraud is punished by imprisonment from six months to eight years, but Nawrocki is not in danger. As head of the state, he responds only before the State Court, a special court for senior officials, which puts it in her term of five years. After that, he can be acting in court, although this also depends on whether he will seek to win a second term.

Nawrocki insisted that he did nothing wrong and that he only acted with good intentions towards Jerzy Z., claiming that he has many witnesses who can attest to support.

Accusations of pimping

The most serious accusation comes from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. He claims that the future president was involved in pimping in a luxury hotel in Sotop, a spa resort from the Baltic Sea. Nawrocki vehemently denied this accusation.

Tusk accused the leadership of the Nationalist Conservative Party Law and Justice (PIS), who supported Nawrocki's candidacy for the presidency, that he knew “about the ties with the gangsters, about the” arrangement of girls “… about fraud with apartments and other still hidden issues.”

Onet, an important news site in Poland, gathered testimonies that Nawrocki had intermediated meetings with prostitutes for the hotel guests where he worked as a security agent, in exchange for part of the money.

Nawrocki sued Onet for the article. Solving the case can take or even years.

Asked by Wirtualna Polska if the accusations are false, Nawrocki replied: “Absolutely. I was slandered.”

“The hotel hosted everyone, from Vladimir Putin to political elites and stars of music who played at the Sotop festival. What are the guests for entertainment-I had nothing to do with it. My job was to ensure their safety and security,” added Nawrocki

Hooligan stump

Nawrocki acknowledged that he participated in a beating between supporters of Rival and Poznan football clubs in 2009, considered hooligans, when he was 26 years old and had just started working at the Institute for National Memory, a state agency that follows the Nazi and Communist crimes against the Poles.

The beating, which the Pugilist Nawrocki called “training”, was investigated at the time, and Wirtualna Polska reported that some of the participants had a criminal record.

During the election campaign, Nawrocki assumed the inheritance of the fighter, stating that he participated in “sports, noblemen”.

“When I was fighting with someone – I emphasize, always with volunteer participants – I never checked their background and I didn't ask for their judicial record. It is very possible that some of them have done bad things. But that does not mean that their actions are reflected in any way,” Nawrocki said in the interview.

However, the president elected acknowledged that he exaggerated when he qualified the beats as “noble” during the election campaign.

More apartments in Gdansk

Another accusation refers to the use in personal interest of apartments belonging to the Museum of World War II in Gdansk, a state institution, during the period when it was its director, between 2017 and 2021.

The case was first reported by Gazeta Wyborcza at the beginning of 2025.

“As director of the Museum of World War II, Nawrocki lived for six months in a luxury apartment in the hotel complex of the museum, although he lived just 5 kilometers away. The candidate for presidency supported by PIS has not paid for accommodation and now denies any illegal deed,” Gazeta Wyborcza reported.

Following the disclosures, the Prosecutor's Office in Gdansk opened an investigation into accusations that Nawrocki lived for free in apartments for 201 days. The investigation has not completed.

If the apartments had been rented, according to Gazeta Wyborcza, the museum would have earned about 28,000 euros.

Nawrocki has not transformed the apartments of the museum into his second house, insisting that he lived there during the quarantine imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic and used the buildings for official meetings with guests from the country and abroad.

Another investigation, although not officially concerned Nawrocki, refers to the disappearance of 8,000 albums with historical materials from the main exhibition of the museum. The albums disappeared from the institution's warehouse between April and June 2020, during his term of director.

The current leadership of the museum considers that the objects were destroyed, and the estimated damage is about 27,000 euros. In this case, the investigation was not completed.

Alter ego

A bizarre moment in the center of which was Nawrocki is related to an interview given in 2018 to a branch in Gdansk of the TVP, the public television station in Poland, which reappeared during the election campaign.

The interview was conducted with Tadeusz Batyr, a writer who explored the Polish interloping world of the 1990s. He praised a book by Nawrocki.

Batyr has proven to be even Nawrocki, with a blurred face and a distorted voice to protect their identity from the mobsters.

Nawrocki defended himself, saying: “Literary pseudonyms are not a novelty in journalism, literature and the Polish academic environment.”