“By a decision dated 6 December 2024, the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin discontinued the investigation against Bartosz Kramek,” reads the statement of the Prosecutor’s Office. In 2017, Bartosz Kramek published the text “Let the State Come to a Stop: Let’s Shut Down the Government”, which caused him many legal problems. Subsequently, he was detained by the Internal Security Agency (ABW) in 2021.
Bartosz Kramek is an activist who opposed the rule of the Law and Justice party. He founded the Open Dialogue Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting defenders of democracy in Poland, Ukraine and Russia. In 2021, he was charged with alleged economic crimes from 10 years ago.
The serious charges referred to money laundering and providing false representations on VAT invoices for PLN 5.3 million. Kramek, as president of Silk Road, supposedly issued VAT invoices for unspecified services. On Tuesday, the Prosecutor’s Office announced the discontinuation of the investigation.
The case of Bartosz Kramek. The prosecution considers the defendant’s facts “plausible”
“The evidence gathered after the presentation of the charges as part of the verification of Bartosz Kramek’s line of defence makes plausible the version of events presented by him that the services indicated in the above-described invoices issued by him between 2012 and 2015 could have actually been performed,” the statement indicated.
The Provincial Public Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin reported that the funds that Bartosz Kramek received on the account of a limited liability company as payment for the invoices in question were not received as a result of the offence of providing false statements in those invoices, neither was it established that the amounts transferred were received as a result of any other offence.
“Taking into account the overall circumstances revealed in the case, the prosecutor considered that the lack of transparency of the sources of income of the company, of which Bartosz K. was the President of the Management Board, constituted a circumstance giving rise to a suspicion that he had committed a crime in the form of money laundering. Nevertheless, the evidence gathered did not provide the necessary grounds for criminal prosecution, which led to the termination of the investigation,” the message concluded.
Source: onet.pl
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