Żurek calls for payment. 34 signatures, nearly PLN 2 million

Last week, Waldemar Żurek informed about signing several such demands for payment. During Tuesday's press conference, he announced more.

Today I signed further demands for payment against the so-called neo-judges in the Supreme Court, 27 pieces - he said at a press conference.

In a later entry on the X platform, Żurek summarized that so far he had sent 34 summonses for a total amount of PLN 1,995,622.94.

Żurek: Poland pays compensation

Żurek emphasized that he had decided that the prosecutor's office would seek payments from those people whose sitting on the Supreme Court generates compensation as a result of lost cases in the European Court of Human Rights. Poland, and all of us, have already paid over PLN 6 million of these compensations, he added.

As the Minister of Justice said, prosecutors called on these people to refrain from adjudicating. For now, we only have three such people who do not generate further losses for the state treasury, said Żurek, adding that the remaining people ignored this call.

The first stage of the investigation in the so-called recourse of claims from these people - said Żurek - is a demand for payment. The next stage will probably be filing recourse lawsuits in court and we will wait to see whether these people will respond in any way to these calls or not, he explained.

The goal is to get a refund

As the spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General, Prosecutor Anna Adamiak, said last week, the purpose of the subpoenas is to obtain from people who are accused of actions resulting in a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights a refund of the amounts paid by the State Treasury in execution of ECtHR judgments.

According to the prosecutor's office data presented at that time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the Prosecutor General with a list of 108 judgments of the Tribunal in connection with which the State Treasury paid compensation and compensation.

Żurek said then that, according to estimates, there were over 1.2 thousand cases waiting at the ECtHR. complaints of Polish citizens whose cases were resolved in the Supreme Court with the participation of the so-called neojudges.