The National Prosecutor's Office announced the release on Friday arrest warrant for the former Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro. The decision was made due to the inability to determine the suspect's whereabouts, which made it impossible to carry out procedural activities with his participation.
The day before, on Thursday, the District Court for Warsaw-Mokotów decided to apply pre-trial detention to Ziobro. In a request for temporary arrest submitted to the court in mid-November 2025, the National Prosecutor's Office indicated, among others: to the real risk of the former minister's flight, hiding and procedural fraud.
Where is Zbigniew Ziobro?
On Friday, the Warsaw Police published an arrest warrant containing the image and personal details of Zbigniew Ziobro on their website.
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The former head of the Ministry of Justice is currently in Hungary, where he was granted international asylum in December last year. The Hungarian authorities concluded that he was at risk of political persecution.
What are Zbigniew Ziobro's allegations?
According to the prosecutor's office, when he was the head of the Ministry of Justice, he committed a total of 26 crimes, including: give orders to his subordinates to break the law in order to provide selected entities with subsidies from the Justice Fund, interfere in the preparation of competition offers and allow funds to be awarded to unauthorized entities.
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Arrest poster and European arrest warrant
On Thursday, after the court's decision, prosecutor Piotr Woźniak, who heads the investigation into abuses at the Justice Fund, announced the initiation of a search for Zbigniew Ziobro on the basis of an arrest warrant and EAW.
“The next stage will be the implementation of a search for the suspect using an arrest warrant and a European arrest warrant,” said prosecutor Woźniak on Thursday.
He added that the arrest warrant would most likely be prepared on Friday after receiving the court files (and it happened), while the application for a European arrest warrant (EAW) was to be sent to the district court at the beginning of next week.
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Why did the court decide to arrest Ziobro?
“The court fully agreed with the arguments contained in the application, finding that there is a general condition for applying preventive measures in the form of a high probability of committing the charged acts by the suspect,” prosecutor Woźniak told journalists on Thursday.
He added that the court also found the specific grounds for detention to be justified, i.e. the suspect's fear of hiding, the risk of procedural fraud and the real threat of a severe penalty being imposed. He also said that the arrest was imposed for a period of three months.
