The District Prosecutor’s Office in Jelenia Góra has filed an indictment with the Regional Court in Warsaw against Sławomir Neumann, a former member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. Investigators accuse the former parliamentarian of “committing offences involving exceeding his powers, misappropriation of property, certifying untruths in documents and concealing the truth in property declarations.”
– The irregularities concern the years 2010–2021, when Sławomir N. was a member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. As an MP, he received a monthly lump sum to cover costs connected with operating his parliamentary office. The applicable regulations strictly specified the purposes for which funds from the lump sum could be used – explains prosecutor Ewa Węglarowicz-Makowska, press spokesperson for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Jelenia Góra. – Meanwhile, according to findings by the District Prosecutor’s Office in Jelenia Góra and the Central Anticorruption Bureau, Sławomir N. misappropriated funds entrusted to him as a public official, in the total amount of PLN 701,252.49, spending them on purposes unrelated to operating his parliamentary office.
She adds:
Taking into account the payments Sławomir N. made to the parliamentary office’s bank account during the period covered by the proceedings, the amount of damage caused by the defendant was ultimately established at PLN 590,767.62.
Sławomir N. also certified untruths in documents, namely reports submitted to the Chancellery of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland concerning expenditure of the lump sum allocated for operating his parliamentary office in individual years, as well as in the forms “MP’s journeys in a month” – the so-called “mileage logs” – by stating false, inflated amounts allegedly spent on purposes connected with the parliamentary office and overstating the number of kilometres travelled.
She further explains:
The defendant was also accused of irregularities in his property declarations for 2015–2016. Among other things, Sławomir N. allegedly understated by PLN 20,000 the amount of funds he held in 2015. He also concealed the fact that he owned a vehicle purchased jointly with his wife in 2016. Additionally, in his property declaration for 2016, he did not disclose a financial liability in the form of a bank loan of PLN 30,000.
The former MP did not admit to the alleged offences and also refused to provide explanations.
Spokesperson:
The indictment is the result of an investigation conducted by the Gdańsk Branch of the Central Anticorruption Bureau under the supervision of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Jelenia Góra.
The investigation collected extensive evidence, comprising more than 40 volumes of case files and several dozen volumes of appendices. Nearly 60 people were questioned as witnesses. Numerous accounting documents and other evidence were collected, and an expert opinion in forensic accounting was obtained.
The politician faces up to 10 years in prison.
– I defeated them once, so I will defeat them a second time. In the end, there will be order and justice. People who are constantly engaged in defaming others keep inventing absurd charges. A prosecutor is not someone who can slander people with impunity by abusing their office – Sławomir Neumann said in an interview with Onet, stressing that he wants his full first and last name to be used in reports on the matter.
He added: – All the invoices and financial settlements are in the Sejm. The prosecutor did not bother to check these invoices; instead, based on his own calculations, he is making up absurd claims. All the calculations have been checked and confirmed. This story is unbelievable, but apparently the prosecutor’s office in Jelenia Góra can believe it.