“We would like to inform you that on August 31, 2024, the District Court in Warsaw issued the following against Michał Kuczmierowski: a European Arrest Warrant and an Arrest Warrant covering the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,” the District Court said in a statement.
An Arrest Warrant is possible based on an agreement on Trade and cooperation between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
On August 22, the National Prosecutor’s Office announced that the Katowice-Wschód District Court in Katowice, at the prosecutor’s request, agreed to apply temporary arrest to Michał Kuczmierowski, which allowed for initiating his search by means of an arrest warrant.
Currently, the search is being carried out by the Warsaw Police Headquarters, which published an arrest warrant for the former president of the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves last Monday.
“Officers of the Warsaw Police Headquarters, based on an arrest warrant issued by the Silesian Branch of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor’s Office based in Katowice, are looking for Michał Kuczmierowski,” they wrote. policemen.
They noted that the man was hiding from law enforcement.
The case is related to an investigation into irregularities at the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves and charges against Kuczmierowski, including participation in an organized criminal group. He faces up to 10 years in prison. Another suspect in the investigation is businessman Paweł Sz.
The court dismissed the motion to arrest Paweł Sz., finding that the fear of tampering with his case was not great enough to require temporary arrest, especially since the suspect had filed a motion to issue a safe conduct letter against him. “The prosecutor will file an appeal against the court’s decision to dismiss the motion,” the National Prosecutor’s Office reported.
The investigation into irregularities at RARS was initiated on December 1, 2023 and is currently being conducted by the Silesian Branch of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the State Police in Katowice. It concerns, among other things, the abuse of authority and failure to fulfill duties by RARS employees while organizing and processing the purchase of goods, and thus acting to the detriment of the public interest, from February 23, 2021 to November 27, 2023 in Warsaw in order to gain financial benefits.
The basis for initiating the investigation were classified materials collected by the CBA and two reports of suspicion of a crime submitted by the General Inspector of Financial Information. At a later stage of the investigation, the General Inspector of Financial Information submitted two more reports of suspicion of “money laundering”.
In July, the prosecutor’s office brought charges against two other people in the RARS case: Justyna G., director of the purchasing office of the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves, and Joanna P., a manager from that office. These charges concern exceeding their powers in connection with the performance of public functions, which was to consist in preferential treatment of some RARS contractors in connection with the implementation of an EU grant in the amount of EUR 114 million for the supply of power generators for Ukraine. (PAP)
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