The Rules Committee recommends that Mr. Król be held criminally liable and detained

Deputy head of the regulations committee, Łukasz Osmalak (Poland 2050), who presented the committee's report to the Sejm on Wednesday evening, said that the committee submits two proposals. The first is the acceptance of the request of the European Prosecutor General and the consent of the Sejm to hold the King's MP criminally liable. Secondly, the committee proposes to positively consider the request of the Prosecutor General and for the Sejm to consent to the detention and provisional arrest of the MP. The vote is scheduled to take place today.

Earlier, at Wednesday's meeting, the Rules Committee for Deputies' and Immunity Affairs voted in favor of both holding Wojciech Król criminally liable and for the Sejm to consent to his detention and temporary arrest.

Second application, other "prohibited acts"

This is the second request from the European Public Prosecutor's Office regarding King. The first time - in July - the committee voted in favor of lifting the MP's immunity, and against his detention and arrest - the Sejm waived his immunity.

On Wednesday, during the committee meeting, prosecutor Agnieszka Marcińczyk, delegated to the European Public Prosecutor's Office, pointed out that the second application does not supplement the first one, but concerns "other prohibited acts and other premises justifying the need to detain and apply pre-trial detention" of the King, which were collected after the first application was submitted.

During the proceedings - along with obtaining new evidence - it was revealed that with a high degree of probability, Mr Wojciech Król could have committed corruption crimes - said prosecutor Marcińczyk. She added that the reason for detaining and arresting the MP was the fear of fraud and the threat of severe punishment being imposed on him. No other preventive measure (...) is able to ensure further proper course of proceedings, she added.

How does the King defend himself?

Paweł Śliz (Poland 2050) - chosen by the King as his defense lawyer from among the MPs - accused the European Public Prosecutor's Office of submitting its application incorrectly, i.e. bypassing the Prosecutor General.

On Wednesday, during the committee meeting, the King talked about the preventive measures applied to him by the European Public Prosecutor's Office. He pointed out that when he went abroad, he was banned from leaving the country and had to report to the police station once a week due to police supervision, although previously it was once a month. He suggested that the European Public Prosecutor's Office was tracking his phone through the services and took these preventive measures knowing that he was not in the province. Silesian.

The MP accuses the prosecutor's office of negligence

Investigation of the European Public Prosecutor's Office regarding suspicions of fraud and corruption as part of orders for the modernization of tram infrastructure in the Upper Silesian-Zagłębie Metropolis.

Proc. Marcińczyk signaled several times that she did not want to publicly disclose the details of the case, which MEPs can become familiar with in the application or through the European Public Prosecutor's Office. However, she informed that the King had not complied with some of the preventive measures - he had not paid the bail and had not appeared at the police station on the appointed day in connection with police supervision.

After the commission meeting, the King told journalists that he did not admit to any charges, "especially since it is difficult to call them allegations at all."

Article 230 of the Penal Code talks about intermediation in exchange for a specific benefit. The prosecutor uses far-reaching hypotheses that if I did something knowing the person, if I helped him, and if he took advantage of it, he could earn money from it in the future. This is not the point of formulating the objection from this article, which states very specifically that engaging in mediation must be in exchange for something. Of course, it can be a promise, but it must be specific, said the MP.

He added that the request of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, due to the differences between the Polish and English versions, "shows far-reaching carelessness and a desire to put him in custody."

However, I think it is very important for the prosecutor's office that I do not perform my duties at the National Media Council in the coming months, because Robert Kwiatkowski's term of office ends on December 10 and we have the last months to complete certain tasks. Due to the fact that I may be in custody, I will obviously not be able to perform such an activity - said the King.

The king is suspended as a member of the KO club