Prime Minister Donald Tusk ordered ministers to urgently prepare recommendations on how Polish law can effectively defend seniors from "extortions and simple cons. " The Head of Government informed of this before the Tuesday Council of Ministers.
In his speech before the government meeting, the Prime Minister referred to the media sound surrounding the issue - as he said - of "the housing issue and these doubts surrounding the actions of 1 of the candidates" for President. He stressed that the function of the government is not to measure the actions of candidates in the presidential election, but that the substance "with all its might" reminds of the problem that the Ombudsman has repeatedly pointed out.
"That is simply a large scale of extortion, fraud in which older people are victims, in hard financial circumstances and who give their flat in exchange for, for example, a debt or care, aid (...) are frequently victims of another types of extortion, fraud, manipulation, not only from individuals, but sometimes from companies," he said.
He asked the Minister for elder Policy Marzena Okły-Drewnowicz to prepare this as an urgent task together in the Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar. "recommendations on how Polish law can effectively defend seniors from extortions and from average scammers".
It seems to me that this is the best consequence to the large confusion that Poland is going through present - he assessed.
Nawrocki's residential affair
This is simply a mention to the case of an flat in Gdańsk, which - as Onet wrote - The candidate for president, supported by the Law and Justice, Karol Nawrocki took over from an older man in exchange for taking care of him; however, in the end Jerzy Z. went to a welfare home.
Nawrocki's staff wrote in a message that Jerzy Ż. was Nawrocki's neighbour, whom he had been helping for many years, and that he was the 1 who donated money to the man to buy out the apartment, which he promised to give Nawrocki for the assistance he provided.
Tuesday was published Nawrocki's property message made in 2021, in which it is stated that he and his wife own 2 flats of 57 m2 and about 30 m2, and Nawrocki besides has a 50% share in his surviving mother's apartment.
During the debate "Super Express" on April 28, Nawrocki stated that he was an opponent of cadastral taxation and would be a defender against this tax. He added that he says this "in the name of average Poles and Poles, specified as him, who have 1 apartment".
Later Onet wrote that contrary to this declaration Nawrocki has 2 apartments, not one; apart from the flat in Gdańsk where he lives with his family, he besides owns a studio in Gdańsk, which was previously owned by Jerzy Z. According to Onetu in 2017, an 80-year-old man present donated his studio Nawrocki, in return they were to take care of him. However, according to Onetu's findings, the aged man went to the State Welfare Home. In addition, the city of Gdańsk pays for its maintenance and the PiS candidate for president does not make a penny.
On Tuesday, PiS MP Przemysław Czarnek said that Nawrocki had bought the flat from Jerzy Z., whom he had previously helped, and there is no agreement between them to take care of it.
A spokesperson for the staff of a candidate supported by PiS Emilia Wierzbicki had previously stated that Nawrocki had never lived in this apartment, rented it, or benefited from any property benefit, paid fees for it to this day, while Mr Jerzy is inactive the owner of the apartment. She added that "the contact with Mr. Jerzy disappeared in December 2024. (...) Karol Nawrocki tried to find him through his neighbours and friends, but unsuccessfully".
Senior nanny has spoken
On Tuesday he published a conversation with Jerzy Z.'s social individual Anna Kanikowska, who was to look after him from spring 2022 until spring 2023. According to her, "Mr. Jerzy lived in misery", "practically had nothing" and that "without the allocation of the MOPR" and without the purchases she made, "he would have no food"; the nanny said that she tried to find out from Nawrocki why she was not helping the pensioner, since he took his flat in exchange for care and that she had sent a letter to Nawrocki on this matter.
According to Kanigowska Nawrocka, "he just wanted to take over the apartment, and then he just didn't care." She added that she had never met "with specified insolent deception".
PAP
