Maciej Wąsik convicted again. He will be held accountable for his actions

23 February 2024 | Author: Dorota Kuźnik

Ties to Russia, money laundering and hybrid activities – such were, among others, the allegations made publicly by Maciej Wąsik against the Open Dialogue Foundation and its representatives. However, none of these allegations proved true in court. The former Minister of the Interior and Administration has been convicted once again and held accountable for his slanders.

Maciej Wąsik now has no choice. The court obliged him to apologise to Lyudmyla Kozlovska and Bartosz Kramek for his statements made while appearing on TVP Info, TV Republika, or published in the daily newspaper “Gazeta Polska Codziennie”.

The decision was issued against him by the district court, and the second-instance court i.e. the Court of Appeals in Warsaw “fully supported the first-instance judgment, dismissing Mr Wąsik’s appeal as unfounded” – reads the statement published by the Open Dialogue Foundation. “This is another final verdict against Maciej Wąsik. Former deputy head of the services found guilty of all the charges against him!” the authors stressed.

Wąsik convicted once again. He lost his trial with the Open Dialogue Foundation

“The court overturned all the arguments put forward by the defendant, dismissing his contentions that they were merely legitimate opinions, that they were of a social nature, or deceptively selected,” reads the statement.

The authors of the letter also clarified which specific statements made by Maciej Wąsik were in question. The former Deputy Minister of Interior and Administration accused the Foundation’s representatives, among other things, of having ties with Russia, money laundering and hybrid actions. In addition, he accused Bartosz Kramek of ‘’inciting bloodshed ‘’.

But the obligation to apologise is not the end of the story. Wąsik must also pay Kramek and Lyudmyla Kozlovska, as well as the Foundation, PLN 10,000 each, including interest.

Let us recall that Maciej Wąsik and Mariusz Kamiński were convicted of fraud in the so-called ‘land scandal’. What is more, the court’s decision to put the politicians in prison was executed, and the case was widely covered by the media and broadly discussed.

Wąsik and Kamiński had been pardoned by President Andrzej Duda, but the presidential pardon was ineffective because it had been granted before the sentence issued against them became final. Both experts and the services considered that the pardon was not carried out in accordance with the law, as the President could only apply the right of clemency if the sentence is final. However, in the end President Duda pardoned both politicians once again.

Maciej “Rubber Ear” Wąsik will be questioned in the Pegasus case

As already reported by naTemat, a committee commonly referred to as the Pegasus Committee met this week, with the aim of clarifying the controversial and outrageous case of suspected surveillance of politicians by the previous government.

Politicians and other individuals were allegedly subjected to activities involving the use of the cyber weapon Pegasus. Maciej Wąsik was allegedly personally involved in the eavesdropping process.

The fact that Wąsik was said to have a nickname in his circles, which indicated his penchant for eavesdropping, was explicitly mentioned by a politician representing the Civic Coalition.

“We should not defend people who used their privileged position to get rid of their political opponents. Maciej Wąsik was, by the way, known by the nickname ‘rubber ear’,” said the Civic Coalition MP Konrad Frysztak on TVN24.

“Perhaps he was in some way enjoying this opportunity to eavesdrop on opposition politicians, but also politicians associated with Law and Justice at the time. After all, it was Andrzej Lepper himself whom they destroyed, and who consequently took his own life. These people must not be defended, they are not political prisoners, they are simply politicians behind prison bars,” added the politician.

What does Mr Wąsik himself have to say about this? “There was no way I was sitting and eavesdropping in real time. This is nonsense […]. The system collects certain files, certain data […] officers handle these files, say after a day, after two, after three. […] We are not going back to a situation from 16 years ago,” he told RMF FM radio on 8 February.

“I did not conduct any surveillance of the opposition, neither personally, nor through any service under Mariusz Kamiński and myself, as his deputy. We have never conducted surveillance of the opposition. On the other hand, special services took action against persons who had committed crimes or against whom there were justified suspicions of committing crimes, and only there did they conduct advanced operational activities where there was a court’s approval,” he added.

Source: natemat.pl

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