"I will appeal." Prok. Ostrowski responds to Bodnar's decision

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Attorney General Adam Bodnar suspension in actions of his deputy Proc. Michał Ostrowski for six months, the National Prosecutor's Office informed on Tuesday.

"Ununderstandable decision". Prosecutor Ostrowski on suspension

– I accepted the decision. Adam Bodnar and I intend to respect it," said Polsat News prok. Ostrowski.

At the same time, he pointed out that he did not realize this decision. – It is incomprehensible to me due to the fact that I have not committed any disciplinary misconduct. Mr Bodnar was informed about all the activities – he explained.

He announced that he would appeal this decision to Disciplinary Court. “I have been working for 30 years and I just wanted to be calm and objectively conduct this investigation, which I have been conducting rather active in fresh days”, he added.

SEE: Prosecutor Michał Ostrowski suspended. Adam Bodnar's movement

Prok. Ostrowski stressed that the papers provided by the president of the Constitutional Tribunal and his evidence were in favour of the initiation of the investigation. I started this investigation 2 days after I received the papers and interviewed you. President Bogdan Święczkowski. The next steps confirmed to me that the initiation of this investigation was justified," he said.

He recalled that on Monday, as ordered, the lawyer General received a case file from him. As he explained in addition to the papers provided to him by the president of the Constitutional Tribunal and his testimony, Bodnar's papers besides include witness statements. – I interviewed I president Supreme Court president of the National Courts, erstwhile Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki – he said.

According to him, the coup investigation should continue. "It is simply a systemic coup d'état connected with the superiority of the executive and legislative authority over the judiciary, which the Constitution does not foresee," he added.

Prosecutor Ostrowski suspended. Decision of Adam Bodnar

The National Prosecutor's Office stated in its communication that the decision to suspend Proc. Ostrowski ‘is justified by the actions and the circumstances accompanying them, which clearly indicate a deficiency of respect for the basic principles of the prosecution's functioning and constitute an emanation of the perception of this institution as a body active in the protection of peculiar political interests’.

It was besides informed that Adam Bodnar had appointed Prosecutor Piotr Kovalik to service as Disciplinary Ombudsman of the Minister of Justice "in order to conduct an investigation into the apparent and gross image of the law by the Prosecutor of the National Prosecutor Michael Ostrowski".

‘The message of law was intended, inter alia, to initiate and conduct an investigation without registration in the prosecution's registration system, with the intention to usage the powers provided for in Article 3(1)(1) of the Act The law on the prosecution in violation of the principles of objectivity and impartiality, and besides on the taking in the interests of a peculiar group of persons, exposed to work for violations of the democratic regulation of law, procedural acts without service pragmatism and rules of law which are mostly applicable, including the manner and scope of the law firm’s operation in the National Public Prosecutor’s Office, explained.

The National Prosecutor's Office informed that “the decision of lawyer General Adam Bodnar to suspend prosecutor Michał Ostrowski is not valid. It shall be appealed to a disciplinary court, but shall be immediately enforceable."

Investigation of a "state attack"

On Wednesday, February 5, Bogdan Święczkowski, president of the Constitutional Court, informed that Deputy lawyer General Michał Ostrowski, after his notice, had initiated an investigation into the suspicion of a coup, including by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, marshals: the Sejm and Senate, the head of the Government Legislative Centre and any judges and prosecutors.

According to the president of the Constitutional Tribunal, the crime is that as of 13 December 2023 these persons have been acting "in an organized criminal group", with the aim of "changing the constitutional strategy of the Republic of Poland and acting to accomplish or cease the activities of the Constitutional Tribunal and another constitutional bodies, including the National Court registry and the National Court of Justice".

A day later, Thursday, February 6th, lawyer General Proc. Anna Adamiak informed that the correspondence that Proc. Ostrowski received from the Constitutional Tribunal was private and that the investigation could only be initiated erstwhile the case was registered and given a signature.

The national prosecutor Dariusz Korneluk reported that lawyer General Adam Bodnar twice asked Proc. Ostrowski to issue papers related to the "state attack" investigation. He stressed that Bodnar had set a deadline for Ostrowski to issue papers by Monday.

On Monday evening, Proc. Anna Adamiak reported that papers related to the "state bombing" investigation had been submitted to the PG secretariat.