The former head of the Ministry of Justice announced on Sunday that he was in the United States. He rejected suggestions of escaping the country, explaining that he was moving on the basis of a document issued to him along with asylum granted by Hungary.. Telewizja Republika announced in turn that The PiS MP will take on the role of a political commentator on this station.
In an interview with Telewizja Republika on Tuesday, Ziobro confirmed that is in Washington and plans meetings with Poles there. He also noted that reaching out to the Polish community is one of the most important reasons for his political presence in the United States. According to him, this group is to be the main recipient of his activities.
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The prosecutor's office calls Sakiewicz as a witness
During the conversation, it was also touched upon about the prosecutor's office's actions against the stationwhere the former minister is to work. The journalist asked Ziobro about the decision of the National Prosecutor's Office, which called the president and editor-in-chief of TV Republika, Tomasz Sakiewicz, as a witness. Investigators want to determine the circumstances of the former minister's employment as a correspondent of the station and check whether it is not related to the crime of supportership.. — Tusk's embarrassment, embarrassment, incompetence and failure to keep his election promises must be covered somehow. They don't have Ziobro, so they want to attack editor Sakiewicz. This shows the helplessness and powerlessness of the authorities who direct their aggression against journalists and the media, he said.
The former minister pointed out that In recent months, he has received several job offers from Telewizja Republika as a commentator. He explained that during his stay in Budapest he consistently refused, but his trip overseas changed his assessment of the situation. – Telewizja Republika enjoys great interest here and has a great influence on the American Polish community, so I decided that combining these two roles was justified and I accepted this proposal – he emphasized.
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Note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the US Embassy
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked for clarification regarding Ziobro's stay in the United States. Ministry spokesman Maciej Wewiór told the Polish Press Agency that the US Embassy in Warsaw received a note asking about the legal and factual basis for the former minister's entry into American territory. A day earlier, the US Department of State refused to disclose the procedure in which the PiS MP reached the country, citing the confidentiality of visa data.
Since Sunday, the National Prosecutor's Office has also been checking whether whether other people helped him in Ziobro's departure and whether the investigation into the Justice Fund was obstructed. The head of the National Prosecutor's Office, Dariusz Korneluk, announced that it was for this reason that investigators decided to question Tomasz Sakiewicz as a witness. The former minister is a suspect in these proceedings.
Charges against Ziobro regarding the Justice Fund
According to the prosecutor's office, Ziobro led an organized criminal group from the Ministry of Justice and used his position for illegal activities.. Last year, Polish authorities invalidated his passports. Together with the former deputy minister of justice, PiS MP Marcin Romanowski, he is one of the suspects in the investigation into the Justice Fund.
Previously, the former minister benefited from international protection granted to him in Hungary during the government of Viktor Orbán. Last Saturday, however, the country's new Prime Minister, Peter Magyar, was sworn in.
