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The Polish Anti-Corruption Agency (CBA) arrested 12 people on Thursday on suspicion of embezzlement and money laundering, including one of the wealthiest Polish businessmen. Ryszard KrauzétY Roman giertych former deputy prime minister, Donald tusk lawyer for the former prime minister.
According to a prosecution report reviewed by MTI, group members are suspected of withdrawing more than PLN 90 million (HUF 7.2 billion) between 2010 and 2014 from an unidentified real estate development company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. using an extensive network of companies. The CBA also carried out a search of the house of the village of Giertych in Warsaw and the village of Krauze on the Baltic coast in Gdynia.
Roman Giertych was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education in 2006-2007, representing one of the parties of the radical right-wing coalition in the first government of the current Law and Justice reform (PiS). After 2007, he went on to law, representing other politicians from the now opposition Civic Platform, as well as Krauze, in various trials as a lawyer.
Spokesperson for the Minister of Secret Services, Stanislaw Zaryn told reporters that Giertych and Zaryn would be transferred to Poznan, in western Poland, for questioning by the prosecution, after which they could be prosecuted.
According to a statement from Polish public service television on Thursday evening, Giertych fainted during the search of the house and was taken to hospital by ambulances. The lawyer’s daughter told reporters that her father had lost consciousness in the bathroom and left the room accompanied by a CBA official.
The authorities have not yet reported exactly what role Krauze and Giertych played in the embezzlement case within the group of suspects. After his arrest, Giertych posted on a Twitter community website suggesting that his case had a political background. Zaryn told reporters, “this is clearly a criminal case,” they have been investigating for several months, the CBA has “strong evidence.”
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