Details of the audit of the National taxation Administration revealed TVN24. The study on the Advocate Nostra Foundation, which is made up of people associated with Robert Bąkiewicz, is 125 pages. "Inspectors took a look at 2 grants the foundation received from the PiS Patriotic Fund established under the regulation – in 2021 and 2022," we read.
KAS audit results at Advocate Nostra Foundation
The full is PLN 840 thousand. As we read, the foundation received PLN 450 1000 in the competition "Freedom in Polish precedence II" for the creation of the Patriotic Center in the purchased property and PLN 390 1000 in the competition "Freedom in Polish precedence I" for the realization of films about the lives of saints in the past of Poland.
In the assessment of the KAS, "grants were issued wrongly and in an unprofitable way". First of all, the foundation did not make in the purchased flat of the Patriotic Center (40-metre premises at Staszica Street in Pruszkow close Warsaw), while during the preparation of films it repeatedly broke the rules of the competition and the contract, and ignored the guidelines.
KAS states that the Advocate Nostra Foundation is simply a ghost organization. She was expected to give an incomplete address in the KRS, so she was not given any correspondence. For years, she was besides not expected to employment officially.
The Bąkiewicz Foundation was to make the Patriotic Center. She hired a individual to look after horses.
The station reports that it was not until the spring of 2022 that 1 individual was working for her, who was employed as a "cooper-stander". She was expected to take care of horses, but that not at the foundation office in Pruszków, but in Otwock, where the National defender Association was established by Robert Bąkiewicz (it was established in 2020 in consequence to Jarosław Kaczyński's appeal for "defence of churches" after the judgement of the National defender on abortion).
The president of Advocate Nostra was Tomasz Dworzyński, who worked with Bąkiewicz in the National defender Association. In 2023 Sebastian Sikora, an activist besides founded by Bąkiewicz of the Rota March independency Association, became head of the foundation.
TVN24 points out that the KAS audit besides points to the large support of the National thought Heritage Institute towards the foundation. IDMN was administered by PiS Senator Jan Żaryn. The Patriotic Fund competitions awarded Advocate Nostra applications with a scoring higher than the maximum. The panel of experts besides added additional points.
Will Advocate Nostra gotta return the money from the grant?
The reimbursement is to be decided by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political Thought, which replaced IDMN. The Institute demands the return of PLN 234 1000 in grants for films about the lives of saints in the context of the past of Poland.
The Advocate Nostra Foundation has been operating under its current name since 2019.
