Former KNF chief Marek Ch. Arrested for two months

The suspect of this overshoot was the head of the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority, Marek Ch. He was arrested for two months. The district court of Katowice-Wschód in the night of Wednesday to Thursday took into account the motion introduced several hours ago in this case.

The information on the court's decision was forwarded by the defender of the suspect, Radosław Baszuk. The prosecutor's office demanded the arrest of Ch., Justifying him with fear of the decree and threatening him with a severe sentence of up to 10 years in prison. In another opinion, there were advocates of Ch., According to which there was no reason to apply preventive measures to their client.

Defenders of Ch. They announced appealing the decision to arrest their client.

Ch. He heard the accusation concerning the March conversation with the owner of Getin Noble Bank, Leszek Czarnecki, who discussed the progress of the procedures of the Polish financial supervisory authority regarding Getin's recovery program Noble Bank.

"At that time, Marek Ch. Offered Leszek Czarnecki the work of Grzegorz Kowalczyk as a lawyer at Getin Noble Bank SA for 3 years and informed Leszek Czarnecki that this job would be of benefit to the Financial Supervisory Commission at the implementation of Getin Noble Bank SA's recovery program, "she said. National Prosecutor's Office.

Detention and interrogation

The former head of the KNF was arrested Tuesday morning in Warsaw by the ABC, and then transferred to the Silesian Department of the Katowice National Prosecutor's Office. He was interrogated for more than nine hours that day. Due to the end of the season, activities involving the suspect continued Wednesday – for the next five hours. During the interrogation, he did not plead guilty.

Tuesday, in the prosecutor's office of Katowice, the former head of the KNF was accused of violation of rights by a public official – the president of the KNF – in order to obtain personal and material benefits from another person. As Tadla explained, it is up to lift the very clear prohibitions of the Commission resolution that regulates the behavior of the president.

We managed to collect "very extensive proofs"

As PK explained, in accordance with the resolution, the Chairman of the Committee was obliged "to refrain from dealing with personal matters that might conflict or indicate a conflict with the performance of his duties member of the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority and refrain from taking any action that could expose the Financial Supervision Commission in case of loss of confidence. "

When asked if any other charges could be presented during the investigation, Prosecutor Tadla replied that he could not talk about the case. orientation of the procedure. He emphasized that in order to be able to make the provisions that formed the basis of the allegation, the prosecutor had to carry out many activities. – We had to call witnesses several times, a dozen witnesses were interviewed, we acquired a very detailed phonoscopic expertise; only this evidence was the basis of these results – he calculated.

The prosecutor estimated that, within two months, the investigators would be able to carry out all the activities necessary to verify the suspect's line of defense and the evidence so as to allow further determinations. – It can be said that, to clarify the situation, it is currently several dozens of proofs, but we managed to collect a very large amount of evidence in a dozen days from the opening of the investigation . to finalize this stage of the procedure – said Tadla.

The prosecutor was asked if his office was certain that he did not bring any PFSA documents after the case had been disclosed. The prosecutor assured that such fears did not exist. These circumstances were also investigated and all necessary circumstances were secured. "The activities that took place in the early hours, days of the proceedings, allowed to exclude a circumstance such that any evidence would be physically removed during the period of which you speak.

Conversation recorded at the headquarters of the financial supervisory authority

"Gazeta Wyborcza" wrote on November 13 that in March 2018, the president of KNF, at the time, was offering the owner, among others Getin Noble Bank to Leszek Czarnecki, favor of Getin Noble Bank in exchange for About 40 million zlotys – it was a remuneration for a lawyer appointed by the KNF chief. Czarnecki recorded the conversation, but the recording did not include Ch's statement about that quantity. According to the businessman, Ch. He had to show him the card on which he wrote 1%, which, according to "Wyborcza", would be part of the value of Getin Noble Bank "tied to the bank's result ".

Czarnecki's lawyer, Roman Giertych, admitted that there was no famous 1% card, but there is another way to prove the existence of this card. He stated that his client was ready to undergo a polygraph examination.

According to Czarnecki's registration and the notification of the offense, Chrzanowski was to offer him the following advantages: dismissal of KNF Zdzisław Sokal – representative of the President of the Commission and head of the bank guarantee fund – because it supports the acquisition of banks of Czecki (Getin Noble) Bank and Idea Bank) by the state; mitigate the financial consequences of the increase in the so-called higher risk (about one billion zlotys for the bank) and the friendly approach of the KNF and NBP regarding the restructuring plans of Czarnecki banks.

Lawyer Giertych said that the first notification made by the prosecutor's office on November 7 concerned the bribery proposal submitted by KNF leader Czarnecki, while the second, on November 13, was about abuse of authority and of the possibility "to have an organized criminal group with the aim of taking control of the bank of Leszek Czarnecki".

Tadla confirmed that the subject of the crime notification. The investigation is very complicated and concerns in particular: as well as the regulations and decisions of the KNF "with regard to the participants in the proceedings".

When asked about the number of recorded conversations that Czernecki had with investigators, prosecutor Tadla replied that the investigators still had expert advice on what was said on March 28. She confirmed the course of Czarnecki's conversation with Ch. And the authenticity of the device on which it was recorded.
He did not want to talk about evidence about other conversations, as there are still no results from subsequent opinions.

Author: asty / adso
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Source: PAP