The Inner Safety Company of Poland announced Monday that it initiated an investigation into former decide Szmydt Tomasz, who fled to Belarus and claimed asylum earlier that day. The investigation is concerning the previous decide’s entry to labeled data. Tomasz communicated his resignation from a Warsaw Provincial Administrative Courtroom in a press conference run by Belarus state media.
Tomasz was appointed a decide in 2012, and was on holiday leave on the time that he fled. When stories of Tomasz’s request for political asylum surfaced, the Provincial Administrative Courtroom announced that it had requested the Supreme Courtroom Administrative Workplace begin disciplinary proceedings for breach {of professional} ethics guidelines within the Legislation on the Group of the Frequent Courts. The courtroom additionally confirmed that the Nationwide Prosecutor’s Workplace was investigating Tomasz for breaches of Poland’s prison code.
The choice to hunt asylum was meant to be a protest in opposition to Poland’s insurance policies in direction of Belarus and Russia. Tomasz believes that authorities in Poland are pushing for warfare with Russia underneath the affect of the US and UK.
After listening to the information, Poland’s Minister for Overseas Affairs Radosław Sikorski referred to as Tomasz a traitor.
Tomasz was concerned in a 2019 scandal through which he was part of a Whatsapp group referred to as Kasta. The group, which involved the Deputy Minister for Justice on the time, mentioned methods of defaming judges that opposed judicial reforms launched by the Legislation and Justice Get together (PiS). The reforms carried out by PiS had been discovered to breach the rule of legislation by the Courtroom of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) by undermining the independence of Poland’s courts. This resulted within the highest every day fantastic ever issued by the CJEU. On Monday, the European Fee introduced that it has ended its proceedings in opposition to Poland, citing the present governments efforts to enhance judicial independence.
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