The Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office has rejected a motion filed by Roman Giertych, counsel for Austrian businessman Gerald Birgfellner, seeking to exclude prosecutor Ma\u0142gorzata Szeroczy\u0144ska from the ongoing “Two Towers” investigation. <\/p>\n
The Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office announced on Monday that the District Prosecutor refused to grant the request submitted by Roman Giertych, who represents Austrian entrepreneur Gerald Birgfellner. The motion had sought the removal of prosecutor Ma\u0142gorzata Szeroczy\u0144ska from the case involving the planned construction of two skyscrapers on a property owned by the Srebrna company, which is linked to the Law and Justice (PiS) party.<\/p>\n
The investigation began in February of last year and concerns allegations that Gerald Birgfellner was misled into making an unfavorable financial disposition of high-value assets. Last Wednesday, PiS leader Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski testified as a witness in the case for nine hours. Following the hearing, the prosecutor’s spokesperson, Piotr Antoni Skiba, stated that Kaczy\u0144ski\u2019s team had requested that Giertych be barred from the proceedings; that request was denied by prosecutor Szeroczy\u0144ska.<\/p>\n
Giertych subsequently filed a motion to remove Szeroczy\u0144ska from the case, claiming she had dismissed over 80 percent of his questions during the hearing. He described the prosecutor\u2019s conduct as unprecedented and argued that it denied his client the right to effective legal representation. He also suggested that the prosecutor\u2019s actions were influenced by a previous, unrelated legal encounter where a court had criticized her procedural decisions.<\/p>\n
In 2019, under the administration of Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro, the Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office refused to initiate an investigation into the Srebrna development plans, citing a lack of documented costs and written agreements. That decision was later upheld by the Warsaw District Court in 2020. However, the case was revisited during an audit of proceedings from the 2016\u20132023 period, and prosecutors determined that the investigation should be resumed.<\/p>\n
Kaczy\u0144ski has dismissed the allegations as politically motivated, labeling the current investigation as part of a campaign against his party. He has also questioned the legitimacy of the current prosecution office. The case remains a focal point of ongoing legal scrutiny, following the 2019 publication by Gazeta Wyborcza of recordings involving the PiS leader and Birgfellner regarding the tower project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office has rejected a motion filed by Roman Giertych, counsel for Austrian businessman Gerald Birgfellner, seeking to exclude prosecutor Ma\u0142gorzata Szeroczy\u0144ska from the ongoing “Two Towers” investigation. The Rejection of the Exclusion Motion The Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office announced on Monday that the District Prosecutor refused to grant the request submitted […]<\/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-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","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=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}