The affair echoed. It was about getting money out of the Wrocław Polish Red Cross. erstwhile PiS politicians were convicted among others. However, the prosecution led by Zbigniew Ziobra carefully avoided the threads of what was happening with the stolen money. And this despite the evidence of the people who claimed that these funds went on campaigns before the 2014 local and parliamentary elections.
Anna Zalewski's problems
That's erstwhile Anna Zalewski's name came up. Today, she is simply a Euro MP of the Law and Justice, formerly a Minister of Education in the government of Beata Szydło. Let's review the details of this outrageous case. It active many years of fraud and misappropriations of money and gifts from the Lower Silesian branch of PCK. The failure of the organization was estimated at about PLN 3 million.
The most crucial subject was the collection of clothing utilized for peculiar PCK containers. alternatively of going to the needy or on authoritative sales, from which the profit would feed the organization's account, the clothing was sold "on the side". The sales money went into the defendant's private pockets.
The PCK magazines were besides to vanish with gifts of material, including food for the poorest. According to media reports, any of these gifts were to be utilized in the campaigns of PiS politicians.
In the case, there have been serious suspicions that the money taken out of PCK could be spent on illegal financing campaigns of PiS politicians, including in 2014 and 2015. In this context, the name Anna Zalewski, the erstwhile Minister of Education, was most frequently mentioned.
The case active mainly activists associated with the Lower Silesian PiS structures, who held managerial functions in the local PCK. The indictment included a full of 10 people. The most crucial of these are:
Jerzy G.: erstwhile manager of the Lower Silesian branch of PCK and erstwhile councillor of the Provincial Seymik for PiS. Considered a "brain" of the full process. He was sentenced to 3 years of ruthless imprisonment. He must besides pay a fine of PLN 105 1000 and repair the harm caused to PCK for the amount of over PLN 1.5 million.
Piotr B.: erstwhile PiS MP, erstwhile head of Wroclaw organization structures and erstwhile vice president of Lower Silesian PCK. The court sentenced him to 16 months of absolute imprisonment and a fine of PLN 25 thousand.
Rafał H.: erstwhile president of the Management Board of Lower Silesian PCK, erstwhile municipal councillor and provincial PiS. He was acquitted. The court found that he had no cognition of criminal activity.
Jerzy S.: erstwhile city councillor of the Law and Justice and PCK employee.
The trial in the main criminal case ended with final sentences in March 2025 before the Court of Appeal in Wrocław.
The investigation is starting again, Zalewska in trouble
As we mentioned, the subject of illegal financing of political campaigns (including Anna Zalewski) was originally investigated by the prosecutor's office. Investigators Ziobry have dropped the case, but the case has just returned.
The Wrocław territory Attorney's Office launched a new, separate investigation into the case. It concerns the suspicion of money laundering and the financing of election campaigns of PiS politicians from the proceeds of PCK crimes.
This proceeding is the consequence of an analysis conducted by a peculiar squad in the National Prosecutor's Office (the alleged Bodnar syndrome), which investigated cases of possible manipulation of investigations in erstwhile governments.
