Eight audits, fifteen notifications. They examined the Central Anticorruption Bureau

After eight own audits carried out at the Central Anticorruption Bureau regarding the functioning of the Bureau during the PiS government, fifteen notifications have so far been submitted to the prosecutor's office – the head of the CBA, Tomasz Strzelczyk, informed senators on Tuesday.

Strzelczyk noted that such notifications are still being formulated – last year there were nine of them, and so far there have been a total of fifteen. Prosecutor's office proceedings are ongoing in each of the cases reported so far; they take place without the participation of the CBA, the Bureau only sends the documentation requested by the prosecutor's office – he explained.

– I do not know what is happening in these proceedings, the prosecutor's office is the host of them – said Strzelczyk during the meeting of the Senate Committee for Human Rights and the Rule of Law, which received information on the results of the CBA's activities in 2024 on Tuesday. The information will be discussed by the House during its plenary session.

The head of the CBA said that internal audit activities were carried out in 2024 and 2025, and The office performed them itself because there is no statutory possibility for them to be done from outside. One of the audits concerned the Pegasus system, ended in July 2024 and was forwarded to the prosecutor's office – it is being handled by investigative team no. 3 at the National Prosecutor's Office.

Senators demanded more information about the results of audits carried out by the previous government. Strzelczyk admitted that the presented information contains only data that can be publicly presented, and the report sent to the parliamentary committee for secret services is slightly broader and contains more details in a secret part.

Parliamentarians also asked, among others: what operational tools the service currently has and whether it still uses Pegasus. Strzelczyk reminded that the service does not have space to present sensitive data in a public meeting and cannot answer the question about the means of control.

When asked about the Collegium Humanum case, he explained that the proceedings were still ongoing, they were not in their final phase and it would be nonchalant and an abuse of powers if he said which direction the investigation was heading. So far, it covers 77 suspects who have been charged with 388 charges, he said.

However, I want to reassure you that the Office actually works, checks and verifies, and Collegium Humanum is not the last and only university that operates in this way – he said.

Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Radosław Kujawa, when asked during the meeting about the liquidation of the CBA and the fate of the draft bill that will carry out this process, recalled that it was prepared in May 2024 and the government adopted it in December 2024. However, the Council of Ministers did not decide to refer it to parliamentary work because the then president's announcement was clear – that he would not sign it – he explained.

He emphasized that in the current situation, a new project has been prepared, because the previous one assumed that the liquidation would take place on July 1, 2025, and from December 2024, 19 new acts related to the CBA entered into force, and two acts are no longer in force. According to the current version of the project, liquidation is scheduled to take place on May 1, 2026.

Kujawa noted that the new document required detailed legislative work, but in his opinion it should be refined this week – the changes will be adopted by circulation as part of the resumption of the Council of Ministers' decisions and will appear “at the next session of the Sejm”.

Strzelczyk, presenting information to the committee, said that at the end of 2024, a total of 1,000 people were in service and working. 17 people – 926 officers and 191 employees. In 2024, 2.8 thousand people applied for admission to service. people, of whom 103 were employed – 84 officers and 19 employees. At the end of 2024, CBA had 24 percent. vacancies, and the current employment deficit is 25%. full-time positions – he said.

In 2024, CBA officers conducted a total of 638 operational cases and 706 preparatory proceedings, of which 240 were completed; 313 people were detained and 2,000 were presented in all proceedings. 375 charges, property worth nearly PLN 370 million, EUR 1.47 million and USD 1.3 million was seized – said the head of the service. The value of the property benefits disclosed in these investigations amounted to over PLN 24 million, and the damage to the state treasury was estimated at PLN 225.7 million, he calculated.

285 preparatory proceedings conducted by the CBA in 2024 concerned corruption, including 350 suspects. Property worth PLN 194 million was secured, and the estimated value of the disclosed property benefits was over PLN 14 million, he added.

The budget of the Central Anticorruption Bureau in 2024 amounted to PLN 312 million 185 thousand. PLN (PAP)

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