Prosecutors are moving to lift the parliamentary immunity of Civic Coalition Senator Marcin Zawi\u0142a over allegations of abuse of power regarding the illegal allocation of public housing in Jelenia G\u00f3ra. <\/p>\n
The prosecutor’s office has filed a request to waive the immunity of Marcin Zawi\u0142a in connection with an investigation into irregularities in the sale of municipal apartments by Jelenia G\u00f3ra officials. Zawi\u0142a, currently a senator for the Civic Coalition, served as the city’s mayor between 1990\u20131994 and 2010\u20132018.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, Zawi\u0142a failed to fulfill his duties and exceeded his authority between November 2016 and July 2017. Prosecutors allege he approved the allocation of a municipal apartment to specific individuals, bypassing the required competitive bidding process.<\/p>\n
Investigators claim Zawi\u0142a provided biased assessments of the beneficiaries’ financial situations. The property was originally intended for public sale on the open market, but instead, it was rented and subsequently purchased by the tenants with a 99 percent discount, resulting in an estimated loss of nearly 170,000 PLN for the city.<\/p>\n
The District Prosecutor’s Office in Wroc\u0142aw launched the investigation in March 2023. An indictment against five officials and three other individuals was filed last October, though Zawi\u0142a\u2019s case was separated due to his parliamentary immunity. Approval from the Senate is required before formal charges can be brought against him.<\/p>\n
Marcin Zawi\u0142a began his career as a teacher in the 1980s before entering politics as mayor of Jelenia G\u00f3ra in 1990. He served as a member of the Sejm for the Democratic Union and Freedom Union, later leading the local library. Following his second term as mayor from 2010 to 2018, he served in the Lower Silesian Regional Assembly before his election to the Senate in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prosecutors are moving to lift the parliamentary immunity of Civic Coalition Senator Marcin Zawi\u0142a over allegations of abuse of power regarding the illegal allocation of public housing in Jelenia G\u00f3ra. Immunity Waiver Request The prosecutor’s office has filed a request to waive the immunity of Marcin Zawi\u0142a in connection with an investigation into irregularities in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}