2025-07-04 17:53
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2025-07-04 17:53
The president of the National Bank of Poland Adam Glapiński was to be questioned as a witness on Tuesday, July 8. However, he sent a letter that he had other duties and cannot appear at the interrogation – said spokesman for the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, Piotr Antoni Skiba.
“The President of the NBP was to be questioned as a witness, on Tuesday, July 8. He sent us a letter in which he indicated three other dates, arguing that he had other duties on Tuesday,” said Skiba.
On June 12, the NBP reported that The prosecutor, assisted by the police at the NBP headquarters, demanded and detained documents regarding the Monetary Policy Council in connection with the investigation of suspected disclosure of classified information. In the opinion of the Central Bank, the activities undertaken by the prosecutor's office were “inadequate to its purpose and nature, incompatible with the principles of procedural economics and did not correspond to the adopted standard of conduct in other matters of similar kinds.” The NBP announced that he would notify the European Central Bank in this matter.
Prosecutor Izabela Dołgań-Szymańska told PAP that in connection with the preparatory proceedings, the prosecutor's office applied twice to the NBP authorities for issuing documentation necessary to make factual findings in the investigation. However – as the prosecutor of the Dołgań -Szymańska informed – in view of the twice refusal to provide the requested documentation, based on the relevant provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the prosecutor arrested the protocol documents.
She also noted that “no representative of the National Bank of Poland brought any reservations to the protocol.”
A day later, on June 13, the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw issued a message in which she informed that it was an investigation into the disclosure in September 2023 in the Radio Lublin studio of classified information about the “secret” clause. The information, which was to be revealed by a member of the MPC, concerned the course of the closed part of the meeting of the council. The notification in the case was submitted by one of the MPP members.
According to the prosecutor's office, the documentation was issued voluntarily, “none of the employees of the NBP raised any objections to the report and did not question the correctness, legitimacy or legality of this activity.” The prosecutor's office's activities were not to interfere with the functioning of the bank. (PAP)
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