Polish Sejm discussed Byalyatski’s case
On August 17 at 9 p.m. Minsk time the Polish parliament a joint meeting of International Affairs and Foreign Ties commissions was held.
Poland’s Prosecutor’s General Andrzej Seremet took part in the session, Radio Svaboda informs.
During the session MP Robert Tyszkiewicz stated: “In fact, we have turned him in into the KGB hands and now we are obliged to help.”
Seremet informed that since 2009 official Minsk had sent 14 inquiries concerning banking accounts of its citizens to Poland, and all of them were satisfied.
“However, there is no information that any of those requests we all know about, concerned representatives of the democratic opposition and were used for persecution of persons engaged in oppositional activities,” Prosecutor General of Poland stated.
He stressed that the request about Byalyatski passed through hands of 9 or 10 prosecutors. And as it turned out, one of the representatives of Warsaw district prosecutor’s office “had doubts about this case.”
“Next week the General Prosecutor’s Office is to start consultations with the Foreign Ministry and the Justice Ministry, in order to elaborate a mechanism in accordance with which Belarusian requests for legal assistance would be sent to the Prosecutor-General’s Office, and not to district prosecutor’s offices, as it is done now,” Andrzej Seremet stated after the session of the commission.
As said by him, it would help “to centralize passing Belarusian requests” and avoid mistakes.
Members of the commission insisted on creating of legal grounds which would make the Polish prosecutor’s office address the Foreign Ministry of the country when such requests from Belarus are received.
“Such consultations would help to take right decisions and avoid such huge scandals which we have in Byalyatski’s case,” observed deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission, MP Robert Tyszkiewicz.
During the sitting of the commission, deputies heard out the detailed description of the mechanism, which had resulted in disclosing the information about Byalyatski’s account. The conclusion was made, that the reason for disclosing these details was “incompetence, omissions and being spoiled”.
