Zbigniew Ziobro did not appear before the parliamentary investigative commission on control of the Pegasus system. This is the fourth time that the Committee has interrogated the former Minister of Justice.
The former minister and attorney general were to be questioned on Monday, November 4 at 10 a.m. in connection with the purchase and control of the Pegasus system in Poland. He didn't show up.
– At the same time, we as a committee should submit a request to the Warsaw District Court to punish and impose disciplinary punishment, but at the same time, as a committee, we should submit a request to arrest Zbigniew Ziob. and bring him to the committee and at the same time appeal to the Prosecutor General to start the process, as a result of which the Sejm will agree to cancel the immunity of Mr. Zbigniew Ziob, – said the head of the committee Magdalena. Sroka (PSL-TD).
In an interview with Radio Polskie 24, Tomasz Trela, deputy chairman of the commission, asked if Zbigniew Ziob had sent a medical certificate justifying his absence at Monday's meeting of the commission, he replied that “yesterday (Sunday – editor) there was no such document. .”
Another absence of Ziob
Ziobro was not present at the previous meetings of the committee. He justified his two absences with a doctor's prescription. When he did not provide evidence about the third failure, an application for a fine was sent to the Warsaw District Court.
Zbigniew Ziob was unable to participate in the proceedings due to cancer. Regarding his health condition, an expert doctor concluded that there are no obstacles to questioning the former minister of justice. – Zbigniew Ziobro has no reason to reject the expert opinion that we have now, – emphasized the head of the commission, Magdalena Sroka. – If Ziob's state of health has changed after the publication of the report, there are also provisions on this matter – added Sroka. He emphasized that “as a former minister of justice, he should fully understand that in such a situation he is obliged to send appropriate medical certificates.”
The Pegasus Audit Commission checks the legitimacy of the software. Verification of the accuracy and purpose of the activities carried out using the system, including: by the government, secret services and the police until November 2023. In addition, the committee should check who is responsible for the purchase of these and similar tools. is
Zbigniew Ziobro Rafal Guz/PAP
“Like a commission”
On Thursday, October 31, Zbigniew Ziob issued a summons for a committee hearing. “This card would be even funny, and its authors would be good jokes, if it were not for the fact that according to the verdict of the Constitutional Court, the members of this “alleged committee” had committed a crime, in particular, according to Article 231 of the Criminal Code,” he wrote.
“On September 10, the Constitutional Court declared that the scope of activity of the parliamentary investigative committee on Pegasus does not correspond to the Constitution and excluded it from the legal system. The deputies who represent themselves as a non-existent commission will be prosecuted for this – it is Me I will send each of them a copy of the verdict of the Constitutional Court so that they don't have to defend themselves in court because they don't know.”
The commission investigating the legality of the software has already heard, among others, the president of PiS, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the former deputy prime minister of the Ministry of Justice and the politician of Sovereign Poland Michal Vos, and the former director of the Family Department. and Juvenile Affairs, Mikolaj Pawlak.
