Polsat News asked Mariusz Kaminski's lawyer, Michal Zuchmantowicz, about his client's current situation and whether, in his opinion, the former head of CBA could be arrested.
The lawyer said that he was asking for the “removal of detention”. “Using the detention facility is legally questionable. Article 247/250 of the Election Code was created in the case of Stanislav Lizhvinsky, in order to cancel the decision of the Marshal of the Seimas and in case of its failure. The execution of the arrest warrant provided for in the first part of Article 10 shall be published. 1 of the Law on the Mandate of a Member of the Parliament”, explained the lawyer in a letter sent to the editorial office.
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“Clause 8 of Article 10 of this law does not allow detention, because it refers only to situations when the Sejm does not agree to the execution of the sentence and does not apply to the cancellation of the decision of the speaker of the Sejm.” We are dealing with a legal gap that cannot be filled. What is the point of the procedure? Has the decision of the Marshal of the Seimas been removed from the legal transaction? Clause 8 of Article 10 is used when there is no positive resolution of the Seimas, and in this case there is not only no resolution, but also a Marshall's resolution in legal operations,” he added.
The case of Mariusz Kaminski and Macie Vesik
On Tuesday, the police headquarters announced that court orders have already been issued, obliging the police to arrest Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Vesic.
As announced in a press release sent to the media on Monday, signed by the Vice-President of the Warsaw-Shrodmiesz District Court, Judge Piotr Maksimowicz, that court did not accept the request to refuse to initiate enforcement proceedings against Kaminski. He did not take into account the request for the suspension of the execution proceedings and the request for a two-year prison sentence for the convicted Kaminski and Vesik.
“Based on the content of the decision and the orders for the execution of the decision, the executive documentation was prepared, including the order to bring the convicts to the Kaminski and Vesik penitentiary units,” says Judge Maksimovic.
The former head of the CBA and former Minister of Internal Affairs Mariusz Kaminski and his former deputy Maciej Wąsik were sentenced to 2 years in prison by the final verdict on December 20, 2023 for the so-called Land scandal.
The case is back in court more than eight years after the Supreme Court's June ruling. In early June 2023, the Supreme Court in the Criminal Chamber, following cassation appeals filed by assistant prosecutors, annulled the termination of the case against the former CBA executives, which was made by the Warsaw District Court in March 2016. The amnesty law that President Andrzej Duda used against the then illegally convicted ex-officers, CBA leaders, and referred the case to the Supreme Court for review.
On Monday evening, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration, Markin Kiervinski, assured that “after the decision of the court, which ordered the police to arrest M. Kaminski and M. If Vesik is brought, the police will immediately take appropriate measures.”
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