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According to the Polish inside ministry, nonetheless, Czarnecki’s Wednesday arrest was associated to a distinct case regarding Collegium Humanum, a non-public college.
The college is underneath investigation by Poland’s Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA), which alleges that Collegium Humanum issued MBA diplomas entitling college students to sit down on the boards of Polish state-owned firms in change for materials and private advantages.
The founder and former rector of the college, Paweł Czarnecki, was arrested by the CBA in February. According to the Wirtualna Polska information portal, Czarnecki has been charged with 30 crimes — together with bribery, abusing his place and coercing individuals into intercourse.
Paweł Czarnecki is the nephew of Ryszard Czarnecki, and alongside along with his uncle had many high-level relationships inside PiS — the party that misplaced energy in final 12 months’s elections in Poland.
Ryszard Czarnecki’s spouse Emilia H. was additionally arrested in Warsaw on Wednesday. Onet (owned partly by German writer Axel Springer, which owns POLITICO) writes that she was additionally an worker of Collegium Humanum.
“As the prosecutor’s actions in opposition to my consumer haven’t but been carried out, and the prosecutor’s workplace has not determined whether or not and what expenses it intends to deliver in opposition to him, I can’t touch upon his state of affairs or current his potential place in the intervening time,” Ryszard Czarnecki’s legal professional Paweł Knap mentioned Wednesday following the previous lawmaker’s arrest, Onet reported.
The new authorities of PM Donald Tusk is urgent for PiS politicians to face prosecution for corruption and different misdeeds.
