President Andrzej Duda announced this on Thursday He starts the pardon procedure Against the former heads of CBA, Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wasik.
– My act of pardon in 2015 was legal. Nevertheless, today the gentlemen are in prison and their lives are in danger every day. Therefore, at the request of the wives of Mariusz Kaminski and Macie Wasik, I decided to start the pardon process. This will be a presidential process, absolutely in accordance with all constitutional standards, the head of state said.
Holovnia responds to the President's move
Journalists asked Marshal of the Seimas Shimon Holounia about the President's decision. – The situation was unclear and suspicious. The president claims that he has successfully pardoned them. Now, whoever has the right to make such a decision, makes it, and no one doubts it. (…) Of course, the prosecutor is still involved in this procedure, probably the opinions of two courts, but since the procedure has been implemented, I understand that it will be implemented immediately,” he said.
– The President's decision to re-apply the amnesty law fixes the situation, but it does not change anything regarding the parliamentary mandates of Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Vasik. They lost their seats irretrievably, noted Holonia.
Kaminski and Vesik were arrested
In December, the court sentenced the former heads of CBA, Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Vasik, to two years of absolute imprisonment for the so-called Land scandal.
Kaminski and Wasik were arrested on Tuesday evening at the presidential palace, where they stayed at the invitation of President Andrzej Duda. On Thursday, the media reported that the PiS politicians had already been taken from the Warsaw-Grochow detention center and sent to two different prisons – Kaminski to the pre-trial detention center in Radom and Vesik to the Przytuli Stare prison near Ostrolenka.
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