Prosecutor Przemysław Nowak reported at a press conference that the Tadeusz Rydzyk Foundation is investigating the issue of 7 contracts concluded between 2017 and 2023 between "Lux Veritatis" and the Justice Fund. In order to clarify all the circumstances, it was considered essential to safe the full dossier.
Rydzyk Foundation trouble. The D.A. collected evidence, will there be charges?
– Details of this cooperation are public. We are investigating all cooperation, we have asked for documentation on 7 grant agreements, both concerning the application for grants and the award of grants and the implementation of these contracts later, and so the spending of funds – explained Prok. Nowak.
So CBA agents entered the foundation office to safe these documents. “They have been released voluntarily and will now be analysed,” Nowak said. And he added that "sufficient evidence was collected to make at least 2 people charge with setting competitions for Lux Veritatis Foundation".
However, it is not about all competitions, but about, for example, this number 9. – That is why Mr Marcin Romanowski's charge with setting this competition was presented. We would like to present specified a charge, in the form of a recommending act, to Mr Zbigniew Ziobrze. According to Mr Marcin Romanowski, who recommended that the competition be won by Lux Veritatis, he described the prosecutor.
TVN24 previously reported that the "Lux Veritatis" Foundation was to receive PLN 12 million from the Justice Fund. For this money, she was to produce broadcasts on tv Trwam, pay the lawyers' salaries, and besides pay the rent of an office at the Toruń university of redemptorist.
The Justice Fund case is growing
The scandal around the Justice Fund is growing. The D.A. accuses Zbigniew Ziobry's people of turning the peculiar fund into a organization electoral treasury. fresh light on this mechanics is cast by e-mails that Onet revealed.
Let us remind that the erstwhile Minister of Justice and the lawyer General has been outside the country for weeks now in Hungary, where political asylum has previously been obtained by Marcin Romanowski.
The Polish justice strategy wants to file 26 charges against Ziobrze. Investigators say that the PiS politician was to run an organized crime group and claim money from the FS (e.g. to acquisition Pegasus).
A spokesperson for the National Prosecutor's Office Anna Adamiak explained that the group founded by Ziobra was to consist of officials and employees of the Ministry of Justice and people associated with the beneficiaries of the Justice Fund. During the course of the crimes they were to claim over PLN 150 million from the Fund.
