Nowak himself is suspected of claiming and accepting material and personal benefits in exchange for awarding private entities contracts for the construction and repair of roads in Ukraine, as well as for laundering money from this crime. – As a result, he obtained over PLN 1.3 million – said the spokesman of the District Prosecutor’s Office Mirosław Chyr.
She added that the allegations concern the period from October 2016 to September 2019, when a former minister in the Polish government headed the Ukrainian State Motor Road Service – Ukrawtodor.
Charges for the next detainees
Detainees with the former Minister of Transport – Dariusz Z. and Jacek P. heard accusations of participating in an organized crime group, money laundering and accepting financial benefits, informed Mirosława Chyr.
As reported by Mirosława Chyr, as established in the investigation, a criminal group organized and led by the former Minister of Transport Sławomir Nowak was involved in the corruption practice, among them the employees of Ukrawtodor and the former head of the military unit “Grom” Dariusz Z. who were detained in Poland and entrepreneur Jacek P. According to the prosecutor’s office, the former minister allocated tasks to them, including on contacts with representatives of companies applying for orders, accepting cash and concealing the criminal origin of money.
– Dariusz Z. and Jacek P. heard accusations of participation in an organized criminal group, money laundering and accepting financial benefits – Chyr said.
She added that Sławomir Nowak is additionally suspected of inciting a doctor from the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw to issue him with medical certificates, which he intended to use to justify his absence from work in Ukraine.
As reported by Mirosława Chyr, the former Minister of Transport Sławomir Nowak and Dariusz Z. and Jacek P. have already been questioned as suspects. – All these people heard the charges today and at the moment they were taken to the detention room. The prosecutor decided to apply to the court to apply the most severe preventive measure, i.e. pre-trial detention. At the moment, the prosecutor is drawing up three such requests for three detained people, Chyr said.
She added that all three suspects did not plead guilty to the alleged offenses. – Sławomir Nowak gave an explanation. Explanations in the case were also provided by Dariusz Z. Jacek P., however, he refused to provide explanations. At the moment, for obvious reasons, we cannot disclose the content of the submitted explanations. They will certainly be analyzed by the ongoing investigation and will be confronted with the evidence collected in the case, said a spokeswoman for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw.
An entrepreneur from Gdańsk
The least known about Jacek P. portal money.pl established that he ran an accounting consultancy company in Gdańsk, where in 2019 he trained, among others, policemen to combat tax crime. Today the phone in his company was turned off – we were unable to contact any of her representatives.
What connects Jacek P. with the whole scandal? At the moment, investigators do not provide much information. Onet sources claim that Jacek P. and Col. Dariusz Z. has both business and private links. As Onet found out, the acquaintance certainly goes back about 10 years, so after Dariusz Z. stopped managing the GROM unit.
Onet sources claim that Jacek P. liked to give the impression of a very wealthy person.
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