The case was reported by lwowecki.info. “A motion for voluntary submission to punishment, the terms of which had been agreed with the prosecutor, was filed with the District Court in Lwówek Śląski against the suspect,” Ewa Łomnicka, head of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Bolesławiec, explained to the Lwówek-based outlet.Ewa Łomnicka

The hearing took place on Tuesday, October 21. Marcin S., a community police officer from Lwówek Śląski, was sentenced to two years and ten months in prison. He must also pay a PLN 6,000 fine.

The former police officer was also banned from holding public office for eight years. Furthermore, the court ordered the forfeiture of the financial benefit he had accepted.

The judgment is not final.

Let us recall. At the end of May, we reported that the man had been brought to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Bolesławiec, where he was charged with three offenses committed between May 6 and 20, 2020.

It was established that he had accepted a financial benefit of EUR 200 in exchange for arranging the lifting of the quarantine requirement for a family living in one of the localities in Lwówek County, before the 14-day period had elapsed from the moment one of its members crossed the Polish-German border.

Investigators reported that Marcin S. had certified untruths in official notes, stating, among other things, that the man had taken a COVID-19 test in Germany and received a negative result, which was supposed to result in him and his family being released from the quarantine requirement.

Furthermore, Marcin S. demanded a financial benefit of PLN 1,500 from another resident of Lwówek County, who was also in quarantine after crossing the Polish-German border, in exchange for refraining from punishing him for changing his place of residence and for helping lift the quarantine requirement.

While promising to “arrange” these matters, the suspect claimed to have influence within the Border Guard and the sanitary inspectorate.

Investigators emphasized:

The district officer’s independent decisions to end the quarantine of people who had been placed under it, in exchange for accepting financial benefits, created a real danger of spreading the epidemic, which could subsequently have posed a threat to the health and lives of residents in the area under his control. Forty-one-year-old Marcin S. admitted to committing the acts of which he was accused and provided explanations.

After questioning the suspect, the District Prosecutor’s Office in Bolesławiec successfully petitioned the local District Court for his pretrial detention for three months from the date of his arrest.

“There is no place in our formation for people who commit such violations of the law. A procedure for dismissal from service was initiated due to the obvious nature of the act, and it concluded today [May 22] with a decision to dismiss him,” Kamil Rynkiewicz from the Press Team of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Wrocław told istotne.pl .Kamil Rynkiewicz