
The prosecutor's office accuses the former director of unlawful use of company vehicles for private purposes.
AI-generated summary
The case concerns allegations of unauthorized use of official vehicles by the prosecutor in 2020-2022.
The motion to adopt a resolution authorizing the prosecution of prosecutor Michał Ostrowski (the prosecutor at X indicated that his name was Michał Ostrowski, not Michał O.) was submitted to criminal liability on October 7 this year. to the Chamber of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court in connection with a justified suspicion of abuse of powers by the former director. This concerns the use of company vehicles to commute to the place of permanent or temporary residence without the required consent of the National Prosecutor.
The investigation into this case is being conducted by the district prosecutor in Gorzów Wlkp., Małgorzata Post-Dięcioł.
In accordance with applicable procedures, such an application is submitted directly by the superior of the prosecutor conducting the proceedings, in this case the regional prosecutor in Szczecin. The lifting of immunity is necessary to hold the prosecutor criminally liable, including to present him with appropriate charges, said the spokeswoman of the District Prosecutor's Office in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Mariola Wojciechowska-Grześkowiak.
Commuting in company vehicles without the consent of the superior
During the investigation, it was found that in the period from April 6, 2020 to July 17, 2022 in Warsaw, the prosecutor was to use official vehicles to commute to his place of residence, although he had no right to do so; among others he did not have individual consent from his superior for such trips.
According to the prosecutor's office, he made 41 such trips on a route of approximately 460 km one way (investigators claim that he traveled a total of approximately 38,000 km).
In the request to waive immunity, the prosecutor indicated, among others: source documentation from the National Prosecutor's Office, witness statements and an analysis on determining the number of unauthorized trips, based on which he concluded that there is a sufficiently justified suspicion of committing a crime.
Żurek: Using the state as a private farm
The prosecutor's name also appeared in an entry on the
"Using the state as a private farm - 41 illegal trips in a company car on the home-work route and Michał Ostrowski driving 38,000 kilometers at the taxpayer's expense," wrote Żurek.
"My name is Michał Ostrowski. Not Michał O."
In turn, Ostrowski himself wrote on the
In the next entry on X, Michał Ostrowski wrote:
Mr. Minister Żurek, please publish my asset declarations for 30 years of my work. Please check. Let everyone see and count. Maybe you can show me too? And you dare to insinuate that I had an "illegal" commute to work. Insolence.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Consideration of the application to waive immunity by the Chamber of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court.
Very likely · Within weeks

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