The collapse of the Pegasus Commission. Are the results gonna be disappointing?

angora24.pl 1 year ago

In the media, it got loud erstwhile it was revealed that the PiS government was utilizing Pegasus software to monitor political opposition, journalists, and even its own MPs. Pegasus, developed by an Israeli NSO company, allows distant access to mobile devices and the usage of telephone strategy gaps. Investigations conducted in Poland and abroad may lead to human rights violations.

Consequently, a Pegasus Investigative Commission was set up to analyse the legality, regularity and intent of operational and investigative activities carried out utilizing this software, including government, peculiar services and police, between 16 November 2015 and 20 November 2023. The Commission besides determines who is liable for buying Pegasus and another akin tools utilized by the Polish authorities.

Unsatisfactory results?

According to the Republic of Poland, the commission can finish its work in the mediate of the year. According to the newspaper, the main difficulties are the deficiency of cooperation from peculiar services and the limitations resulting from the provisions of the Law on the Investigative Commission. The diary besides informs that the work of the committee of enquiry costs over PLN 200 1000 per month, and their results are disappointing.

The president of the committee, Magdalena Sroka, informed that the Parliamentary Committee on Pegasus was planning to interview respective more people. On January 24 it will be Marian Banaś, president of NIK, in the second half of February Agnieszka Kwiatkowska-Gurdak, head of CBA, and in March Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik, erstwhile heads of CBA.

Interview of the Ziobra

Additionally, as Magpie announced last December, the committee intends to interview erstwhile Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobra on 31 January. The MP was summoned 4 times by the Sejm's committee of inquiry, but did not attend the meetings. He presented his medical release twice. Later, the committee received an expert opinion from which, as the president of the committee informed, it was clear that the erstwhile Minister of Justice could testify.

The Commission asked the Warsaw territory Court to request that Ziobra be detained and that it be brought to the meeting. The Sejm agreed to this in early December.