Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski has received two prosecutor charges. The move is a significant criminal-procedure development involving a serving public official, but the prosecutors’ account is not a court finding of guilt.
Przemyslaw Nowak, spokesperson for Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office, said a prosecutor from its Mazovian division brought the charges last Wednesday. The first concerns an alleged misappropriation of funds entrusted to Bartoszewski by Andrzej Ciechanowiecki and the Non Omnis Moriar Foundation between 9 July 2012 and 20 February 2015. Prosecutors cited amounts of £1 million, €405,000 and 6,683,705 zlotys.
According to the prosecution statement reported by TVN24, some of the money was allegedly used for personal purposes and some for the purchase, renovation and furnishing of three Warsaw apartments acquired for a company owned by Bartoszewski and his wife. Prosecutors further allege that, after the apartments were sold between 2012 and 2015, the proceeds were not returned to the injured party.
The second charge concerns alleged actions from 2012 to 2022 intended to frustrate or reduce a creditor’s satisfaction through concealing, disposing of and gifting assets. Polsat News reported that analogous charges were also brought against Bartoszewski’s wife and that he had previously waived parliamentary immunity.
Charges against a serving deputy foreign minister require close public scrutiny of both the allegations and the next procedural decisions. They do not, however, settle the allegations. The supplied reporting contains no response from Bartoszewski or his wife, no account of the evidence underlying the charges, and no court ruling. That distinction matters especially when the accused holds public office: transparency should not become a substitute for due process.
Sources
- TVN24 · Source date: 2026-11-10
- Polsat News · Source date: 2026-11-10
Independent editorial content. WUA is not affiliated with any political party. 2026-11-10