Bailiff seizes Maciej Wąsik’s bank account following court judgment

5 July 2024 | Author: TŁ

“The money from Maciej Wąsik is in our Foundation’s account,” said Bartosz Kramek from the ODF’s Supervisory Board. The money is the result of the enforcement of a court judgement that obliged the PiS politician to pay compensation for violating the personal rights of the Foundation and its leaders Lyudmyla Kozlovska and Bartosz Kramek.

The activists sued the politician following his statements in 2018–2019 about the Foundation’s activities. Wąsik publicly accused activists criticising the then government of having ties with Russia, of hybrid activities and of money laundering. Wąsik publicly accused activists criticising the then government of having ties with Russia, of hybrid activities and of money laundering. In February this year, the Court of Appeal upheld the first instance ruling, which upheld the organisation’s claims. Maciej Wąsik was to publish apologies within 14 days of the ruling became final (including on TVP Info, Telewizja wPolsce.pl, YouTube and the Telewizja Republika website) for spreading “harmful and untrue information” and to pay compensation – PLN 10,000 each to Bartosz Kramek, Lyudmyla Kozlovska and the Foundation itself, totalling PLN 30,000.

Maciej Wąsik did not comply with the judgement, so on 18 June the Foundation’s attorney Dawid Biernat applied to the enforcement bailiff to initiate and carry out debt enforcement proceedings against the politician.

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The enforcement was carried out by Aleksandra Rudzka-Natanek, an enforcement bailiff at the District Court for Warsaw-Żoliborz. At the end of June, she seized over PLN 50,000 from Maciej Wąsik’s bank account, of which PLN 30,000 is the value of the debt, i.e. compensation, more than PLN 11,000 is interest, more than PLN 7,600 is legal costs, PLN 900 is the cost of representation in enforcement proceedings and under PLN 5,000 is the cost of enforcement. The amount was transferred to the Foundation’s account after deducting the costs of enforcement proceedings and legal costs.

As a next step, the Foundation intends to enforce Maciej Wąsik’s obligation to fulfil the rest of the judgement, i.e. to publish an apology in the media outlets indicated by the court. The PiS politician had until 8 March this year to apologise to activists. “Maciej Wąsik did not do so, so the application for court enforcement is ready and will be filed with the court,” Bartosz Kramek told PAP. In his application, the Foundation’s attorney Dawid Biernat requests that the politician publish an apology within three days of the court’s judgement becoming final, otherwise, he will be fined PLN 5,000 for each day of delay.

Source: tvp.info

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