Arrest of Kaminsky and Vesik. The police entered the palace
That's why the police entered their apartments on Tuesday morning. However, he did not find them there. Politicians were already going to the presidential palace to meet the president. At this time they also left… journalists.
We are here, we are not hiding, we are here with the presidentWe know that police forces are gathering at the president's office to arrest us, we are currently talking to the president – said Mariusz Kaminski.
Why? The police had to enter the presidential palace to arrest both politicians – independently reported by tvn24.pl, wpolityce.pl and Radio Zet. According to journalists, Mariusz Kaminski and Macie Vesik were arrested. This information was confirmed by the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration Czeslaw Mrocek on the website of X.
This information was also confirmed by the Warsaw police. “We inform you that in accordance with the order of the court, the persons mentioned in the instruction were arrested“- says X in the official profile of the officers.
Kaminsky and Vasik were sentenced
In 2007, when the land scandal broke out, which was aimed at Andrzej LeperMariusz Kaminski was the head of CBA, and Maciej Wąsik – his deputy. Therefore, in 2009, the court charged both of them with abuse of authority and committing crimes against the credibility of documents. In March 2015, the first instance court sentenced them to three years in prison. (This verdict was wrong).
In November of the same year, that is, before the appeal was considered, The newly elected president Andrzej Duda used an act of grace towards both of them. However, in May 2017, the Supreme Court issued a ruling declaring it ineffective.
A dispute over an act of grace
He presented a different assessment constitutional Court. The Constitutional Tribunal found that the constitutional right to amnesty, as a broader concept than amnesty, also includes individual acts of amnesty (eg, the intervention of executive authorities in the ongoing process). Leon Kieres, the sole judge of the five-member panel who was elected to the Constitutional Tribunal until 2015, submitted a dissenting opinion in this case.
In June 2023, at the request of the speaker of the Seimas, the tribunal determined that only the president can exercise the right to pardon, and such a decision has a final legal effect. The Constitutional Tribunal also ruled that the Supreme Court does not have the right to exercise legal control over the competences of the head of state regarding the right to pardon (judges Piotr Pszczolkowski and Michal Warczyński expressed dissenting opinions).
Four days later, the Supreme Court overturned the dismissal and remanded the case to the district court. He justified it by the fact that Andrzej Duda used the right to pardon convicts instead of individual amnesty. The December verdict is the finale of the trial.
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