At first of the brand new week, the hunt for Daniel Obajtek intensified. Though he’s working an election marketing campaign, he’s efficiently avoiding showing earlier than investigators. They determined to assault with elevated pressure.
They need to shortly monitor down Daniel Obajtek
Because the prosecutor’s workplace introduced on Monday, Obajtek was to look right now at 10 a.m. for questioning in a case involving false testimony. He didn’t seem on the prosecutor’s workplace, and in accordance with investigators, the summons was despatched however not obtained. Nevertheless, investigators took one other step.
– Right now, the prosecutor requested the Nationwide Electoral Workplace to switch by 15 all addresses identified and submitted as correspondence addresses by Mr. Daniel Obajtek, in order that the summons to look will be successfully delivered to the given addresses the place Mr. Daniel Obajtek is to remain – stated the spokesman of the District Prosecutor’s Workplace in Warsaw on Monday.
If they don’t obtain new addresses by 3 p.m., they’ll order a seek for the witness to find out his whereregardings. This, in accordance with the previous Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski, may even end in arrest for Obajtek.
– The prosecutor’s workplace has rather more efficient choices on this case and in the event that they name and somebody doesn’t come ahead, that individual will in all probability be detained. In fact the court docket will consent as shortly as attainable to the detention of this individual following which, probably, provisional arrest. Obajtek is just not protected by any immunity right now. So long as there may be an acceptable determination, any policeman will be capable of arrest him – says Prof. Gazeta Prawna. Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski.
Obajtek will not come. What does the prosecutor say?
The prosecutors’ motion is one aspect of the coin, and the investigative fee investigating the so-called visa scandal. Its chairman, MP Michał Szczerba, summoned Daniel Obajtek for questioning on Tuesday, though it’s already identified that the witness won’t seem. Obajtek himself introduced that he had licensed his legal professional to characterize him each within the prosecutor’s workplace and earlier than the investigative fee. If one among them fails to look, Szczerba additionally intends to hunt assist from regulation enforcement businesses.
– On the identical day, a choice can be made to impose a monetary penalty, however extra importantly, a request to the Prosecutor Common to arrest Daniel Obajtek and convey him earlier than the fee – stated MP Michał Szczerba.
Obajtek himself, referring to the announcement of the prosecutor’s workplace and the announcement of MP Szczerba, attacked the federal government, reminding that “with no verdict and with out circumstances pending towards him, he’s handled as a prison” and introduced that he won’t participate “within the Civic Coalition’s circus”
“I hope – though the hope is illusory – that I will end the election marketing campaign in peace,” Daniel Obajtek wrote on social media.
Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski reveals what awaits Daniel Obajtek
In the meantime, because it seems, time might decide the way forward for Daniel Obajtek, who, as primary on the PiS record for the European Parliament from Podkarpacie, has an amazing likelihood of successful a mandate as an MEP on June 9. If the investigators making an attempt to arrest him win the race towards time and find the previous president of Orlen earlier than Sunday’s elections, even immunity might not assist him.
–Any prison conduct that occurred earlier than being elected as an MEP is just not protected by immunity. And it will not save him. But when they didn’t arrest him by then, then the state of affairs would really be such that it will be essential to ask for the waiver of immunity if he was elected, says Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski.
If Daniel Obajtek managed to win a mandate as an MEP and thus the immunity that protects him, then investigators who need to query him might be compelled to submit a request to the European Parliament to waive it. This might take many months and will surely make the work of not solely prosecutors tougher, but additionally the investigative fee that wishes to interrogate the previous president of Orlen. So how lengthy do investigators have till and does it actually expire on Sunday, i.e. the day of the EP voting?
– In the event that they detain him till he’s granted immunity, no consent is required. Immunity exists from the second of election, and particularly from the second the Nationwide Electoral Fee determines that somebody has been elected. This implies not from the second that he personally feels that he has been elected, however there have to be a press release from the Nationwide Electoral Fee – explains Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski.
