“During the investigation, Monika S. and Małgorzata K., who were interrogated as suspects, confessed to the crimes they were accused of and provided explanations regarding the circumstances of the allegations. They face a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and an obligation to compensate the damage to the State Treasury,” said the spokeswoman of the District Prosecutor's Office in Ostrołęka, Prosecutor Elżbieta Łukasiewicz, in a statement.
In total, they transferred over PLN 1.6 million in this way, the prosecutor's office reported.
According to investigators, Monika S. was an accountant at the District Court in Pułtusk from January 2018 to June 2024, and then a chief accountant. According to the indictment, during this time she repeatedly exceeded her powers and misled the director of the district court regarding the circumstances constituting the basis for making bank transfers.
“She entered false data into the documentation”
According to the prosecutor's office, the woman “prepared unreliable documentation in which she entered false data regarding the grounds for making transfers and forged signatures of alleged applicants.”
“Then she presented the transfers to the director or an authorized person for approval. After acceptance, she performed unauthorized bank transactions from bank accounts kept for the District Court in Pułtusk, i.e. from the commission sums account, from the budget income account, from the budget expenditure account and from the deposit sums account. The funds were transferred to bank accounts belonging to the accused herself or three members of her family, to which she had access as a proxy,” the prosecutor's office found.
She repaid the loans with the court's money
According to investigators, S. was also supposed to make transfers to business entities with which it concluded loan agreementsas well as make unauthorized postal transfers addressed to her and to a family member.
According to the prosecutor's office, the defendant's actions led the Pułtusk court to an unfavorable disposition of property – a total of nearly PLN 875,000. PLN 140.
The prosecution attributed a similar course of action to Małgorzata K., who was the chief accountant of the court in Pułtusk from June 2018 to October 2019. During that period, bank transfers were made from accounts kept for the District Court in Pułtusk to bank accounts belonging to this defendant. According to the prosecutor's office calculations, she led the Pułtusk court to an unfavorable disposition of property – a total of over PLN 749,000. PLN 600.
The indictment – as informed by prosecutor Łukasiewicz – was sent to the District Court in Ostrołęka.
