Michał Szczerba: the court docket imposed a disciplinary positive on Daniel Obajtek of PLN 3,000. zloty

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The District Courtroom in Warsaw imposed a positive of PLN 3,000 on Daniel Obajtek. PLN – stated on Friday the top of the parliamentary investigative committee on the so-called visa scandal Michał Szczerba (KO). The court docket didn’t settle for the committee’s request to detain and forcibly convey the witness.

Szczerba stated that on Friday the fee obtained the choice of the District Courtroom in Warsaw from Thursday. He knowledgeable that the court docket had determined to impose a disciplinary penalty on the previous head of Orlen within the quantity of PLN 3,000. PLN for failing to seem on the committee assembly on June 5. He added that in different respects the court docket didn’t settle for the fee’s request to detain and forcibly convey the witness.

Szczerba recalled that on June 6, the District Courtroom in Warsaw obtained a request from the investigative committee to impose a positive on the witness Daniel Obajtek and to order the witness’s detention and convey the witness to the assembly of the investigative committee scheduled for June 7 at 12. The top of the fee recalled that Obajtek didn’t seem on the assembly of the investigative fee on June 5 to testify, regardless of an efficient summons.

He added that Obajtek had beforehand submitted a request to the committee to alter the date of the assembly. The previous head of Orlen requested that the listening to be postponed till after the European Parliament election marketing campaign, the place he’s a candidate. Obajtek is operating for the European Parliament from the primary place on the Podkarpacie PiS checklist.

Szczerba stated that the court docket shared the fee’s opinion that Obajtek’s conduct was reprehensible. – The court docket punished him with the utmost penalty for illegal failure to seem. We respect this resolution. At this time at 12, it stays to be seen whether or not this punishment will self-discipline the witness and whether or not this time Mr Obajtek may also disregard the District Courtroom in Warsaw, which gave him the advantage of the doubt concerning the achievement of the duty to seem as we speak at 12 – stated the top of the fee.

Mirosława Chyr, spokeswoman for legal issues of the Warsaw Regional Courtroom, additionally knowledgeable PAP that the court docket imposed a positive of PLN 3,000 on Daniel Obajtek. PLN and didn’t settle for the request of the investigative committee to detain and forcibly convey the witness to the committee assembly scheduled for June 7.

As reported by Chyr, within the justification for the choice imposing a positive, the court docket discovered that the witness didn’t seem on the assembly with out correct justification. – The letter submitted by the witness doesn’t represent such an excuse. Though the witness indicated that he had deliberate actions in reference to the election marketing campaign, however because the court docket famous, he didn’t point out what particular actions he would carry out on June 5 – stated the press secretary for legal issues of the SSO.

She indicated that the court docket imposed the utmost positive and located that it will not be excessively burdensome and that it might be paid by the witness. She added that when figuring out the quantity of the penalty, the court docket additionally took into consideration the truth that the witness failed to seem on the assembly of the investigative fee for the second time.

– As regards the rejection of the request to detain and forcibly convey the witness to the committee assembly, the court docket discovered that detention, which is the truth is deprivation of liberty, ought to solely be utilized within the occasion of a persistent refusal to testify by the witness. Within the court docket’s opinion, a monetary penalty ought to first be imposed. This penalty ought to oblige the witness to seem on the committee assembly – Chyr defined.

On Wednesday, journalists from Radio ZET and FRONTSTORY.PL reported that the previous president of Orlen, Daniel Obajtek, is staying within the capital of Hungary – Budapest, the place he stayed in an residence belonging to an organization of businessmen related to the son-in-law of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. On Wednesday, Obajtek posted images from conferences with voters on X, thus responding to studies from Radio Zet and FRONTSTORY.PL, in keeping with which he’s in Hungary.

– After Radio ZET and FRONTSTORY.PL printed the outcomes of a journalistic investigation and revealed that the previous president of Orlen was utilizing a luxurious residence within the middle of the Hungarian capital, a Polish consul appeared at this handle. He tried to offer Obajtek a summons to a gathering of the fee of inquiry into the visa scandal – Radio Zet then reported.

Paweł Wroński, a spokesman for the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, confirmed on Thursday that the Polish consul in Budapest tried twice to offer Obajtek a summons to the committee assembly, however he couldn’t discover him on the given handle.

On Wednesday, the visa committee determined to ship an software to the District Courtroom in Warsaw to impose a positive of PLN 3,000. PLN positive, detention and taking the previous head of Orlen to a different interrogation, as a result of on that day – equally to final week – he didn’t seem for the interrogation and didn’t justify these absences. Obajtek’s subsequent listening to is scheduled for Friday, June 7, at 12.

After the choice to submit an software for the switch, Obajtek stated on the X platform that “the circus (of the top of the fee – PAP) Michał Szczerba and KO is getting began.” – At this time there have been makes an attempt to discredit the place I’m. Now they need to take me to the investigative fee by pressure (…) In spite of everything, I submitted a movement asking for the listening to to be postponed after the marketing campaign, and you continue to need to make a circus utilizing taxpayers’ cash – he wrote.

Fee for the so-called The visa scandal is investigating abuses, negligence and omissions within the legalization of the keep of foreigners in Poland within the interval from November 12, 2019 to November 20, 2023. The Fee needed to ask the previous head of Orlen, amongst others: o using foreigners within the funding of Olefiny III.

The order to provide a witness is issued by the court docket. If such a request is submitted by an investigative committee, the court docket, in a closed session, should examine its validity and whether or not the situations for obligatory elimination are met. If the court docket points a deportation order, it’s despatched to the police, who could detain the indicated individual and convey them earlier than the requesting authority for a specified date. The detention interval shouldn’t be extended, because the detention itself ought to final solely to the extent essential to convey the witness.

(PAP)/lp