On Friday, during the proceeding at the Department of Military territory Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, the erstwhile defence minister Mariusz Błaszczak heard allegations related to the excess of his powers. The case concerns declassification and publicisation of Poland's defence plans from 2011. It happened during the fall campaign.
Mariusz Błaszczak appeared in the prosecutor's office this morning. The building left after 4 hours. In an interview with journalists, he confirmed that he had heard allegations of overexecution. However, he pointed out that he did not plead guilty. "The allegations are unfounded in my opinion," he stressed. The erstwhile head of the MON besides admitted that he had applied for the exclusion of the prosecutor who accused him. According to politics, he is not impartial. However, the claim was rejected.
At the end of the interview, the press briefing besides called the prosecution. Colonel Marcin Maksjan, Prosecutor of the Military Affairs Department, reported that Mariusz Błaszczak had provided not extended explanations. “He answered the questions of his defenders, but refused to answer the questions of the prosecutor,” explained Colonel Maxjan. The audition itself was recorded and recorded in video format. The erstwhile head of the MON did not take any preventive measures. He is facing imprisonment from 1 to 10 years.
The beginnings of the case date back to July 2023. At that time, Mariusz Błaszczak, the Minister of Defence in the Government of the United Right, decided to declassified fragments of 2 documents: “The plan to usage the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland Warta-00101” and “The concept of operations for the plan to usage the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland Warta-00101”. 2 months later, any of their records were made public on social media. According to Błaszczak, papers drawn up in 2011, erstwhile the country was ruled by the PO-PSL coalition, assumed that in the event of the Russian invasion, the Polish army would defend itself on the Vistula line, and thus, at the beginning of the war, it would hand over a large part of the territory to the aggressor. present the erstwhile head of the MON repeats that the law did not break, due to the fact that it declassified the plans by then already archived. And he did it due to the fact that he wanted to make the public aware of the destructive policy of the PO-PSL government and block the anticipation of returning to akin solutions. "As a national defence minister, I had not only the right, but besides the work to make specified a decision. This is how I treat my mission – as a associate of the Polish Parliament, and then as a Minister of Defence. The point is that all part of Polish land should be defended – he spoke to demonstrators on Friday morning who gathered in front of the office of the territory Attorney's Office in Warsaw.
Meanwhile, as the Advocate General Anna Adamiak explained in February this year, he should have applied to the Chief of the General Staff for approval to declassified documents, which he did not do. Nor did he inform the president and Head of the National safety Bureau about his intention. According to representatives of the current authorities, the decision of the erstwhile head of the MON was part of the election run at the time. “Minister Mariusz Błaszczak acted against the law and interests of the Republic,” argued Cezary Tomczyk, Deputy Minister of Defence in the current government. "This is not the question of whether it affected defence issues today," he stressed. He besides recalled that the defence on the Vistula line was just 1 of the options for defence plans, and that the papers concerning them themselves should stay secret until the premises of their creators cease to exist. Yesterday, during his interview with journalists in the Sejm, Tomczyk stressed that he hoped to bring the erstwhile head of the MON to justice as shortly as possible. "In my opinion, this case should end with a conviction for Błaszczak. due to the fact that it's not just a disgrace, it's just a crime – he argued.
A notification about the anticipation of a crime by the erstwhile Minister of Defence was made by the Chief of Military Counterintelligence Service, General Jarosław Stróżyk. This happened last summer. On March 6, the Sejm decided to waive the immunity.
