Poland's right-wing 'trap investigation' indicts President Duda, a friendly country, Japan holds foreign affairs talks with new government

Poland's right-wing 'trap investigation' indicts President Duda, a friendly country, Japan holds foreign affairs talks with new government

 

President Duda of Poland's right-wing government was indicted on the 10th, and the former interior minister, a powerful figure, was imprisoned for two years in prison for 'abuse of power through entrapment investigation', and leading figures in the Polish arms trade with friendly countries were indicted one after another.
The AP reported on the 9th that Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa visited Poland on the 8th, met with Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, and laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The Polish-Japanese Foreign Minister's meeting concluded 'strategic cooperation' and strengthened relations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Japanese Foreign Minister visited Ukraine the day before.
On the 10th, Poland's former right-wing government, former Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski and lawmaker Maciej Wasik, were found guilty of abuse of power and imprisoned, and President Andrzej Duda, who signed a defense industry contract with President Yoon Seok-yeol, was indicted on obstruction of justice. done.
The pro-European coalition that formed the new government issued a statement saying, “It shows that no one is above the law.”
Rep. Kaminsky (then Central Anti-Corruption Bureau CBA Director) and Rep. Basik (then Deputy Director), who were indicted in 2009 for abuse of power in the investigation of corruption of former government officials, were sentenced to two years in prison in December last year as the government changed to a pro-European government. done.
The new government's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said police entered the presidential palace to detain the two lawmakers after they showed up there and charged President Duda with obstruction of justice. Police searched them in a car leaving the building, Reuters reported. It was reported on the 10th.
Kaminsky, an imprisoned former interior minister, was first elected to the National Assembly in 1997 as a member of the right-wing nationalist party and was re-elected in 2001 and 2005. He resigned from his position in 2006 and led the investigation into former government officials as head of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau.
“Political opponents say he and his associates pursued corruption with excessive zeal, sometimes using methods to circumvent the law and hunt down innocent people,” Reuters said. “In 2009, Kaminsky and Wasik announced that agents under their command were responsible for the investigation.” Kaminsky and Wasik were indicted on charges of abuse of power for allowing a sting operation, and in 2015, Kaminsky and Wasik were found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison, but appealed.”
The incident occurred three months after the sentencing, when the nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS) claimed victory in the Polish general election and took over the prime ministership, President Andrzej Duda pardoned the two men, and Kaminsky became Minister of the Interior immediately after the pardon, and in the general election in July of last year. Pro-European parties won and formed a coalition government, raising the legality of the maintenance ruling and amnesty again.
Reuters said, “Lawyers questioned whether President Duda was entitled to pardon them before the appeals court issued its final ruling,” and added, “Poland’s Supreme Court should reconsider the case last year.”
In a reinvestigation of the case in December last year, Kaminsky and Wasik were again sentenced to two years in prison. On January 9 of this year, the court ordered the two men to be imprisoned, and on the 10th, the police entered the presidential palace where the two men had taken refuge. In addition to the arrest, Prime Minister Donald Tusk charged President Duda with obstruction of justice for allowing the two lawmakers to appear at his official residence.
President Duda was elected president in 2015 with the support of the Law and Justice Party (PIS), and came to Korea as a pro-American government. With the Framework Agreement in July 2022 with the Yoon Seok-yeol government, 10 billion won, or 80% of the first 12.3 billion dollars, was signed. Signed an agreement to provide direct loans and credit facilities to the Korean government in dollars.
The second contract was signed immediately after the right-wing government was defeated in the Polish general election, and was concluded with Korean support of 80%, or 33.6 trillion won, of policy financing for $31.9 billion.
In June 2022, President Yoon promised and signed a direct agreement on defense industry cooperation with Polish President Duda at the NATO Summit, calling himself the ‘No. 1 salesman.’

This appeared to be a defense industry deal to support the right-wing government's election.