Polish Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) He was arrested in mid-September Ryszard Tzarnikitformer Vice-President of the European Parliament. The agents attacked the politician belonging to the right-wing Law and Justice Party at Warsaw airport when he was visiting Poland from abroad – according to his plans – for a short period.
The 61-year-old Czarnecki is a well-known figure in Polish politics after the regime change, as he lost his mandate as the EU representative in the European Parliament elections in June after five terms. The fact that OLAF has been investigating him since 2020 for his suspicious travel compensation certainly contributed to his election defeat. The veteran politician tried to calm the case by paying 100,000 euros (about 39 million Hungarian forints), but the Polish Prosecutor's Office leaked at the beginning of September that despite the payment, the proceedings initiated in Brussels would continue in his home country.
The Polish press also speculated that travel bills issued for 230,000 kilometers and cars with fake license plates could be behind the astonishing event at the airport. Published on X But the Interior Ministry's justification showed that the simultaneous arrest of Czarnitsky and his wife was in a completely different case. Deals with European Union affairs POLITICO It was also reported that this time the Polish politician was involved in the scandal of the Collegium Humanum Warsaw Management University, famous as a diploma factory.
All this is bad news for the hundreds of Hungarian citizens who have become paying students at the private university through the Humanities College's branch in Bratislava.
The couple was released a few days later, but the case indicates that the situation around the parent institution was never settled, although the university took several measures to improve its reputation. Before the start of the school year in September, it was announced that they would attempt to rectify the PR disaster caused by the decapitation of the institution in the past six months through a name change and internal organizational restructuring.
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