The Warsaw prosecutor’s office will assess whether Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik exceeded their authority in the case of Lyudmyla Kozlovska, President of the Open Dialogue Foundation. What exactly is the investigation about?
Prosecutor’s investigation: The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw has launched an investigation into abuse of power by, among others, officers of the Internal Security Agency (ABW), as well as former Minister Coordinator of Special Services Mariusz Kamiński and his deputy Maciej Wąsik (both currently members of the European Parliament). The case concerns the “fabrication of unreliable documents incriminating Lyudmyla Kozlovska from the Open Dialogue Foundation, suggesting that she poses a threat to the defence and security of the state”. The investigation also includes former officials of the Office for Foreigners, who placed Kozlovska on the list of undesirable persons. The proceedings are at a preliminary stage, and no charges have yet been filed.
Case background: Founded in 2010 by the Ukrainian activist Lyudmyla Kozlovska, the Open Dialogue Foundation was critical of, among other things, judicial reforms under the PiS government. In 2018, based on a classified ABW opinion, Kozlovska was expelled from Poland. Administrative courts later ruled in several judgments that the decision against the Foundation’s President was unfounded. In July 2024, the activist was finally removed from the list of undesirable persons. She came to Poland for the first time last week.
What the ABW concluded last year: “The courts repeatedly ruled that the decisions of the Head of the Office for Foreigners had no legal basis, but, after they were overturned, they referred the cases for reconsideration. This created a loophole that allowed us to obtain fabricated materials from the Internal Security Agency, which were classified to prevent us from accessing them,” commented Bartosz Kramek from the Foundation, Lyudmyla Kozlovska’s husband, in an interview with Onet.pl. In a letter dated April 2024, the Deputy Head of the ABW’s Registry and Archives Office stated that the Agency “does not possess any information indicating that the presence of Ukrainian citizen Lyudmyla Kozlovska on the territory of the Republic of Poland poses a threat to the defence or security of the state or the protection of public safety and order”.
Source: gazeta.pl
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