The scandal of the KNF. Marek Ch. He does not admit to the charge of the prosecutor

• The former head of the KNF was arrested yesterday morning in Warsaw by the ABC, then transferred to the prosecutor's office in Katowice
• The hearing lasted more than 9 hours yesterday. The interrogation ended due to the late hour. He spent the suspect's night in the police detention center.
• Given that the prosecutor's office has 48 hours to perform the acts in the presence of the suspect, the hearing will continue today, after which the prosecutor's office will decide the request addressed to Marek Ch.

According to unofficial information from the investigation, the former head of the Financial Supervisory Authority yesterday heard an allegation of abuse of power by a public official so to obtain personal and real estate benefits from another person. The prosecutor's office does not want to confirm it officially, nor does it reveal whether Ch. Pleaded guilty, arguing that the disclosure of this information could be detrimental to the proceedings.

– At this point, I can not explain in detail how the allegation is built and, of course, if the suspect confessed to having committed (…) The suspect provides very bulky explanations, for the moment it is 35 pages – said the head of the Silesian department of the national prosecutor, Tomasz Tadla.

Favorability for the bank for 40 million zlotys

"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. – Mr Czarnecki is ready for a polygraph examination – said FMF FM Giertych.

ABC Survey

The investigation is supervised by the Silesian Department of PK, which entrusted them to the ABC. The procedure began after a report filed by Czarnecki in early November.

On November 19, the businessman filed his testimony at the prosecutor's office of Katowice for 12 hours. By submitting a notification and the day of the interrogation, he also provided the investigator media with recorded conversations – these are audio and video recordings. In addition to Czarnecki, other witnesses were also questioned.

On November 14, the central anti-corruption bureau received a warrant from the prosecutor's office allowing it to search the headquarters of the financial supervisory authority and the residence of the former president of the company. 39, Polish Financial Supervisory Authority. CBA agents entered the PFSA headquarters in Warsaw and collected evidence – KNF meeting protocols and recordings regarding Getin Bank's recovery procedures, update of the recovery program, Getin Bank capital protection and KNF meetings regarding the situation at Idea Bank SA, including the acquisition of GetBack SA shares and the sale of GetBack SA bonds.

According to the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, the agents obtained all the required evidence that was covered by the decision of the prosecutor's office. These documents and records were not in the office of the President, but in other organizational units of the PFSA. At the headquarters of the KNF and in the apartment of Ch. Documentation was provided, as well as electronic equipment and electronic media used by the former KNF president.

During these activities, CBA officers determined what activities the former president had conducted at the PFSA headquarters – he was at the KNF assisted by an employee of the PFSA office and his visit did not occur. has not detracted from the effectiveness of the CBA's activities – the Bureau said in its statement.

In the following days, the CBA was heard by eleven people, including Grzegorz Kowalczyk, designated by Ch. recommended to Czarnecki employees, employees of the KNF office and employees of Czarnecki subsidiaries. The CBA and the Internal Security Agency conducted an experiment in the office of the KNF chief in Warsaw concerning the use of "anti-hearing" devices – "szumideł", including ch. in a conversation recorded with Czarnecki.

On 19 November, the Office of the Forensic Police of the Internal Security Agency issued an expert opinion on the recordings and the memory media given to the prosecution by the prosecutor: a dictaphone, a pen with a camera and a USB key . The quick conclusion of this expert opinion – Monday, November 26 and its results – made it possible to stop the former head of the KNF on Tuesday morning.

During its activities over the past few days, the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau has secured surveillance files at PFSA headquarters, and the Bureau of Control Procedures of the Bureau has initiated a pre-trial analysis of the cases. auditing property declarations of the former president. CBA agents investigate the veracity of submitted reports, their accuracy – formal questions related to the submission of these documents. After the analysis, recommendations regarding the future activities of the Bureau in this regard will be formulated.

(MW)