The Prosecutor's Office dismissed the investigation of the Polish Post Office regarding the “envelope elections”

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The Warsaw territory Attorney's Office decided to discontinue the investigation initiated at the request of the ultimate Chamber of Control, which was to examine whether the Polish Post Office's board had put the company at hazard in preparation for the alleged enveloped elections in May 2020.

The investigation was 1 of many proceedings moving since the fall of 2023, erstwhile a coalition led by Donald Tusk took over and began verifying the activities of the institutions active in organizing the correspondence vote.

According to NIK, the costs of the operation, which was not carried out, amounted to a full of nearly PLN 133 million, which, according to the controllers, caused harm to "large size". Prosecutor Iwona Kićek, however, found that the Polish Post did not endure any real loss. Out of PLN 66.8 million spent, over PLN 53 million was compensated by the National Election Office, and by the remaining PLN 13.6 million the company is inactive in process with the Treasury. Until a final judgement is given by a civilian court, no harm can be caused. Even with hypothetical designation of the full amount as a loss, this would be only about 0.2% of the yearly operating costs of the Polish Post Office, which, according to the expert, weakens the argument of large sizes of damage.

In the message of reasons for the decision, Prosecutor Kiev stressed that the members of the Polish Post Office's board of directors, preparing the president's correspondence elections, did not intend to harm the company and acted in the belief that their actions would be full reimbursed by the CWB. It so found that there were no signs of a non-economic crime.

Let us remind that the preparation process itself has caused much controversy – the deadline for the correspondence elections was announced in May 2020 due to the improvement of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the envelope vote for the conventional urn was yet abandoned. The activities of ministries and public companies from that period later became subject to many checks and interventions, including the work of the Sejm's committee of inquiry, and the notification of trade unions and opposition MPs.

In February of the current year, erstwhile Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki heard allegations of overexecution and failure to fulfil his duties in connection with the organisation of correspondence elections. The politician exercised the right to refuse to supply explanations and announced that he would be ready to attest after proceeding the case files.

The decision to discontinue the investigation means that the Polish Post Office will not be held liable for preparation for the 2020 envelope election in the close future. The company continues to search full recovery from the State Treasury and the final civilian settlement may affect the reassessment of the case.

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