Completed and amended charges against the former Minister of Sport in years 2013-2015
Former Minister of Sport Andrzej B. heard supplemented and amended charges regarding stating untruth in asset declarations. The bases are the findings of the control and investigation carried out by the CBA Regional Office in Łódź and the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw.
Irregularities in the suspect's asset declarations are of a larger scale than in the reported charges filed against the suspect in February 2016. The findings of the CBA and the prosecutor's office indicate a higher undervaluation of the amount held in cash. It was determined that the amount of income not shown in the PIT-36 declaration (tax declaration) for 2012 is much higher than in the decision on presentation of charges of February 2016 and amounts to over 120,000 zł. Therefore, the prosecutor announced today the suspected Andrzej B. amended and supplemented charges.
The allegations concern the submission by Andrzej B. in the period from 2011 to 2013 of six false asset declarations: five of them were filed when he was a member of the Polish Parliament, one of the years 2013 when he was the Minister of Sport and Tourism.
As the prosecutor's office emphasizes, the duration of the proceedings results from the necessity of scrupulously verifying the suspect's financial documentation, waiting for completion of proceedings conducted by tax authorities, as well as obtaining the results of actions commissioned under international legal assistance in Great Britain - in light of circumstances revealed during the investigation related with indication by the suspect in tax documents for the transfer of funds by his daughter, who lives in Great Britain.
Toward the punishment, a property security for the amount of 300,000 zł has been made on the property of the suspect - by establishing a real property mortgage.
Checking asset declarations is a statutory duty of the CBA. Parliamentarians are subject of control over the reliability and veracity of asset declarations. Therefore, the CBA has repeatedly directed notifications to the prosecutor's office. As a rule, doubts related to the discrepancy between the actual property status and the declared - deliberate disclosure of untruth in asset declaration is a crime. The CBA established during the control that the asset declarations submitted by Andrzej B. may be false. An investigation was initiated by the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw and is conducted together with the Regional Office of the CBA in Łódź.