Poland’s former interior minister Mariusz Kamiński has been sentenced to two years in prison, the Warsaw District Court ruled in the second instance on Wednesday.
According to the court, the politician abused the powers of his office while he was the head of the anti-corruption authority, CBA, in the conservative nationalist government of the time led by the Law and Justice party (PiS).
The former deputy head of the CBA, Maciej Wąsik, was also sentenced to two years in prison.
Both PiS politicians are banned from holding public office for five years and lose their seats in parliament.
Kamiński had already been sentenced to three years in prison in March 2015 for abuse of office at first instance.
The reason for the conviction was an affair uncovered in 2007, in which Kamiński’s office allegedly deliberately orchestrated a case of corruption in order to discredit the then minister of agriculture Andrzej Lepper. Kamiński appealed the conviction.
After the PiS government took office in the autumn of 2015, President Andrzej Duda pardoned Kamiński in a controversial decision, even though his appeal was still pending.
Therefore, the case was dropped shortly after and Kamiński was named interior minister.
The Supreme Court cancelled Kamiński’s pardon last June, which forced him to face trial again. (dpa/NAN). READ ALSO:
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