60 Former Officials In Poland Charged With Corruption, 100 PiS Government Eras Also Investigated

JAKARTA - Poland is processing the law of more than 60 officials from the previous PiS era on charges related to misappropriation of funds aka corruption. While more than 100 others are being investigated.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk's coalition government sets a priority to hold people suspected of making mistakes under the previous nationalist government accountable.

PiS did not immediately respond to requests for comment via email, but politicians have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

"After six months, we have 62 people from the previous ruling elite who have been indicted. This has never happened in history before our predecessors," Tusk told reporters, without specifying who the official was and what charges they faced.

Tusk said the government was conducting further proceedings, with 200 tax inspectors investigating 90 units in 17 ministries, and the scale of potential irregularities estimated by the tax office reached 100 billion zlotys (25.23 billion US dollars).

"Notification (already) was conveyed to the prosecutor's office about the possibility of a crime of more than 3.2 billion zlotys," continued Tusk.

Tusk said the deviation was part of a "closed system" created by PiS and was based on the assumption that the ruling party had previously been unable to lose power.

Former PiS prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at X the main goal of the Tusk government was to liquidate the largest opposition party.

"When you are obsessed, you go to a doctor, not form a government," continued Morawiecki.

Officials previously said seven people were indicted in an investigation into alleged misuse of funds managed by the Ministry of Justice.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Audit Agency (NIK) has informed prosecutors that Morawiecki may have acted detrimental to the public interest when giving subsidies to the city government.

During his eight-year administration, PiS faced accusations from opposition parties, human rights groups and the European Union for violating democratic norms, increasing state control over the judiciary and eroding media freedom.