
The Sejm decided on the immunity of the erstwhile head of the MON, and now PiS MP, Antoni Macierewicz. The lower chamber of the Polish Parliament voted to repeal it! The decision opens the way for the erstwhile Minister to be charged with disclosing classified information during the working period of the Smolensk Subcommittee.
The Sejm decided to waive the immunity of associate of Law and Justice Antoni Macierewicz. 240 Members voted in favour of depriving the policy of dismissal. The opposition was 190 and 9 abstained.
Depriving Macerewicz's immunity is related to the prosecution's intention to press charges against a suspected disclosure of classified information. Until recently, the Minister of Justice and lawyer General Adam Bodnar, whom he succeeded after the reconstruction of Waldemar Żurek, applied to the Sejm.
“There was no secret information,” said Macerewicz after finishing the secret part of the Sejm gathering in consequence to questions from journalists. "I inform you that all classified information has been defined by military counterintelligence services as those to be eliminated and I have done so," said the erstwhile head of the Ministry of Defence. He added that he disclosed papers on the basis of an assessment of the Military Counterintelligence Service, which was to indicate which ones were fit for publication.
The possible allegations are intended to relate to the period during which Macerewicz served as the president of the Subcommittee for the Reinvestigation of the Air Accident – that is, the alleged Smolensk Subcommittee – and a associate of the Committee on the Investigation of Aviation Accidents. According to the National Public Prosecutor's Office, there is evidence that from April 2018 to May 2022 the politicians released data on clauses, including ‘closely secret’, ‘secret’, ‘confidential’ and ‘reserved’.
Disclosure of classified information is punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment.
Source: polsatnews.pl