Former KNF leader arrested for two months

• 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. PK.

The former KNF leader was arrested yesterday afternoon in Warsaw by the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau and then transferred to the Silesia Department of the Katowice National Prosecutor's Office. That day, he was interrogated for more than 9 hours. Due to the end of the season, activities involving the suspect continued today – for the next five hours. During the interrogation, he did not plead guilty.

Advocacy for Marek Ch.

The day before yesterday at the prosecutor's office in Katowice, the former head of the KNF had heard the accusation of violation of the rights of a public official – the president of the KNF – in order to obtain personal and material benefits of 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.

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 . finalize this step of the procedure (…) – said Tadla.

Could Marek Ch. Obtain documents from PFSA?

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 were carried out in the early hours, days of the proceedings, allowed to exclude a circumstance that any material evidence would be removed, in the period you mentioned – he said.

"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.

Guy. Giertych said that the first notification made by the prosecutor's office on November 7 concerned the bribery proposal submitted by the KNF chief Czarnecki, while the second, from November 13, related to the abuse of power and the possibility "to have an organized criminal group aimed at leading to the takeover of the bank of Leszek Czarnecki."

How many conversations does the prosecutor's office have?

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 the investigators, prosecutor Tadla replied that the investigators had at the moment an expert opinion on the March 28 conversation. 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.