CBA The CBA detained three officials of the Warsaw City Hall. Bribes at re-privatization
Agents from the Regional Office of the CBA in Warsaw detained three capital officials, including the head of division of the Office of Decree Affairs of the City of Warsaw. Bribes when issuing re-privativative return and compensation decisions. The officers are conducting searches at the office at the Warsaw City Hall.
This morning, officers of the Central Anticorruption Bureau detained in the houses: Kamil D. current acting Head of Division dealing with re-privatization applications in the Bureau of Decree Affairs of the Warsaw City Office and formerly BGN Bank employee, Krzysztof R. - former manager of the Decree Real Estate Department of the Capital City of Warsaw in the Real Estate Office of the Office of the Capital City of Warsaw and Jacek W. - Chief Specialist at BGN, referent of re-privatization cases.
Findings of the investigator from the CBA indicate, that the detained officials of the Warsaw City Hall systematically, over the years, received high bribes for their help in obtaining decisions regarding re-privatization, returns and compensations.
The CBA officers are conducting searches in the rooms of the Bureau of Decree Affairs of the Warsaw City Hall. They are securing electronic documents and data.
Persons detained by officers from the CBA Regional Office in Warsaw - the officials of the Warsaw City Hall will be transferred to the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław, where they will hear charges.
The CBA in the case concerning irregularities in the Warsaw's re-privatization conducts 68 investigations regarding nearly 200 addresses - most of them are valuable, multimillion worth parcels, tenements.
And so the officers of the Warsaw CBA Regional Office detained in January this year 5 people, and in February another 3 people. Among the detainees were, among others, officials, attorney Robert N. and former deputy director of the Real Property Management Office of the Capital City of Warsaw Jakub R. and parents of the official - Wojciech R. and Alina D. The four were arrested temporarily.
In the middle of May this year agents detained another 8 people, including one of the most well-known buyers of decree claims to attractive land in the capital Maciej M. and his son Maksymilian M. and lawyer Andrzej M. specializing in matters of re-privatization. The CBA also detained Grażyna K.B. and Tomasz Ż. - lawyers appearing as curators of property heirs and real estate appraisers inscribed on the court list of experts - Michał S. and Jacek R. and Andrzej K.
On 9th October this year the agents of the Warsaw Regional Office of the CBA detained three more persons in the matter of irregularities at the Warsaw re-privatization: the former office clerk from Ministry of Justice Marzena K., former dean of the District Bar Council Grzegorz M. and businessman Janusz P. The detentions were carried out in an investigation supervised by the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław in connection with the re-privatization of a parcel worth around 160 million PLN located next to the Palace of Culture.
Most of those detained by the CBA by decision of the court was taken into custody.
The list of detainees caught by the CBA and the list of prosecution charges is not closed, the investigators are constantly working on the collected evidence. New threads are being investigated.
