Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar submitted to Marshal Szymon Hołownia a request for the Sejm to consent to holding MP Łukasz Mejza criminally liable – the National Prosecutor’s Office announced on Wednesday. – When I see this motion, of course I will be happy to respond substantively to each of these base, inflated allegations – Mejza announced in the Sejm. PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński also commented on his case.
On October 1, the District Prosecutor’s Office in Zielona Góra submitted a request to waive the immunity of Łukasz Mejza, an MP from Law and Justice. This is related to the findings of the prosecutor’s office regarding the MP’s asset declaration.
“The collected evidence, including property declarations, inspection of the apartment, documentation obtained from the Central Anticorruption Bureau and the tax office, sufficiently substantiated the suspicion that Łukasz Mejza, a member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, had committed eleven crimes,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
For a deputy to be held criminally liable, the motion to waive immunity must be passed by the Sejm.
Łukasz MejzaMarcin Obara/PAP
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the National Prosecutor’s Office announced that on Tuesday, Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar submitted to Marshal Szymon Hołownia a request for the Sejm to consent to holding MP Łukasz Mejza criminally liable.
The Marshal of the Sejm confirmed on Wednesday that he had received such a request, along with another request to waive the immunity of Confederation MP Ryszard Wilk. Hołownia said that he had formalized them. – When they return from this formal inspection, I will immediately forward them to the committee. This one will work in normal mode. I don’t know whether it will be ready for the next session of the Sejm next week, or only the next one so that we can make a decision on this matter in the plenary chamber, he added.
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Mejza about “bottom, inflated” accusations
Journalists tried to ask Mejza about the case in the Sejm. – Good morning, I would like to welcome you to Belarus. Only that instead of Baćka we have Donald Tusk and Adam Bodnar – he said.
– Ladies and gentlemen, now the Bodnarists are attacking the MPs for allegedly not registering the rooms. They do not need to be included in the asset declarations. We only enter the square footage. And it comes to the point where the police enter the MPs’ apartment, harass pregnant women and run around the apartment with a measuring tape – he commented.
As he added, “these are Stalinist standards, this is not even Belarus anymore.” – Find me a man, I will find a paragraph – he said.
– When I see this motion, of course I will be happy to respond substantively to each of these base, inflated allegations – he announced.
Mejza told reporters that he was considering waiving his immunity, but would make a decision after hearing the prosecutor’s request.
Mejza on “bottom, inflated” allegations regarding his immunityTVN24
PiS president about Mejza: I don’t know what kind of person he is
PiS President Jarosław Kaczyński was asked by journalists in the Sejm about Mejza’s case, as well as about the statement of the Speaker of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia, that the Sejm’s lifting of the immunity of other members of the PiS club, Marcin Romanowski and Michał Wos, remains in force.
– Mr. Marshal’s interpretations are, to put it mildly, far from precise to be very elegant here. However, when it comes to Łukasz Mejza, this is an issue that he, in my opinion, should resolve, said Kaczyński.
Investigation since December
The District Prosecutor’s Office in Zielona Góra initiated an investigation into irregularities in the asset declaration of PiS MP Łukasz Mejza in December 2023.
According to Wirtualna Polska, in his declaration of assets the politician mentioned, among others: 180 thousand PLN for a loan for an apartment, but he did not include information about the premises he owned.
Previous testimony given by the PiS MP showed that he had an apartment with an area of 59 square meters, which he valued at PLN 500,000, Wirtualna Polska reported. The editorial office informed the prosecutor’s office about the lack of this entry. As journalists checked, Mejza is still the owner of this premises.
– This crime is punishable by six months to eight years – said prosecutor Ewa Antonowicz, spokeswoman for the district prosecutor’s office.
After publication, Mejza sent a correction of his asset declaration to the office of the Speaker of the Sejmin which he added the said apartment.
At the beginning of March, the MP’s apartment was searched and inspected. The information obtained by WP showed that in Mejza’s apartment, apart from the kitchen and two rooms, there were also stairs leading to the attic, and there was a premises adapted by an MP belonging to the Law and Justice Parliamentary Club. The inspection confirmed this.
Mejza did not file a complaint against the search. The parliamentarian was not in the apartment, his partner was present during the inspection.
Łukasz Mejza commented on the case on social media. “There was no ‘search’, only the policemen politely and very politely came with… a measuring tape (yes, with a measuring tape). And they measured the height of the attic,” he wrote on X’s website.
Mejza assured that he provided the number of square meters of the apartment “truthfully.” According to the MP, “the attic is too low to count square meters.”
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