Police detained erstwhile head of CBA Ernest Bejej on Friday morning - reported on social media spokesperson Jacek Dobrzyński. He added that Bejda would be brought to the gathering of the Parliamentary Committee on Pegasus, scheduled at 10.30 p.m.
In total, the Pegasus Parliamentary Investigative Committee has taken four attempts at interrogation Former Head of Central Corupation Bureau. The last gathering with him was scheduled for March 31, but Bejda did not appear on it. The committee so requested approval from the court to bring the witness to the police.
The capital police stopped the erstwhile CBA chief on Friday morning, as reported by the spokesperson of the SWIA Minister and peculiar services coordinator Jacek Dobrzyński.
"Today morning, June 6th, at the command of the Warsaw territory Court, police of the Metropolitan Police Command detained erstwhile Chief of the Central Anti-corruption Bureau" - he wrote on the X platform. As he added, Bejda will be brought to the Pegasus committee.
This morning, June 6th, on orders from the Warsaw territory Court, police officers @Police_KSP They stopped the erstwhile boss @CBAgovPL. The man at 10:30 will be brought to the committee of inquiry.
— Jacek Dobrzyński (@JacekDobrzynski) June 6, 2025The president of the Committee on Pegasus Magdalena Sroka responded to the Ombudsman's entry. "At 10:30, we begin questioning witness Ernest Bejda" - stressed.
Pegasus case
In early April, the Ministry of Justice published declassified papers concerning the acquisition of Pegasus. They propose that The agreement to transfer PLN 25 million to the Central Anticorruption Office in 2017 was signed by then Deputy Minister of Justice Michał Woś and head of CBA Ernest Bejda.
Parallel to the committee's work, the Pegasus case is dealt with by the National Prosecutor's Office's Investigation squad 3. On Wednesday, PK spokesperson Przemysław Nowak reported to charge the erstwhile manager of the CBA Delegation in Warsaw, Jarosław W., and the erstwhile head of the 1st Operations and Investigation Division of this Katarzyna S. Excess of powers carrying out operational and investigative activities towards erstwhile president of Sopot Jacek Karnowski, "despite the deficiency of factual and legal basis for this".
"We cooperate with the National Prosecutor's Office on an ongoing basis, we besides transmit our findings that aid with the ongoing investigation and hence results in the form of detention of erstwhile CBA officers who have already heard the charges. We besides work further" - stressed Magpie.
On Wednesday, in a conversation with "Rzeczpospolita" Bejd, he emphasized that the charges against officers "are of a strictly political nature". "I am absolutely convinced of the integrity of the detainees. They are professional, they did hard things," said the CBA chief quoted by "Rz".
Treala: We have quite a few questions
According to the Vice-President of the Pegasus Commission on Tomasz Treli (Levice), "there are quite a few questions to Bejda in terms of both the purchasing and functional, usable, Pegasus system". "We've got quite a few evidence collected in classified mode that we can't talk about." - added the MP. "He actually oversaw the Central Anti-corruption Bureau. We know who he was. We know who supervised him" - said Trela.
The Commission is investigating whether the usage of Pegasus surveillance software by the government, peculiar services and police at the time erstwhile the PiS ruled was lawful. The Commission is besides to find who was liable for buying Pegasus and akin tools for Polish authorities.
According to information provided by NIK, the Pegasus strategy has been purchased in autumn 2017 for CBA, from funds coming from the main part (25 million zlotys) of the Justice Fund (supervised by the Ministry of Justice).
PAP
