Mariusz Kamiński
Kamiński in 2019
Minister of the Interior and Administration[1]
In office
14 August 2019 – 27 November 2023
Prime MinisterMateusz Morawiecki
Preceded byElżbieta Witek
Succeeded byPaweł Szefernaker
Head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau
In office
3 August 2006 – 13 October 2009
Succeeded byPaweł Wojtunik
Member of the Sejm
In office
25 September 2005 – 21 December 2023
Constituency24 – Białystok
Personal details
Born (1965-09-25) 25 September 1965
Sochaczew, Poland
Political partyLaw and Justice
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Signature
Criminal details
Criminal statusIncarcerated

Mariusz Kamiński (born 25 September 1965) is a Polish politician who served as the head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) from August 2006 to October 2009. He served between 2019 and 2023 as the Minister of the Interior and Administration, in addition to coordinating Polish secret services, which he had done previously as a minister without portfolio.

Career

He had previously been a member of the Sejm, elected on 25 September 2005, getting 9142 votes in 19 Warsaw district, as a candidate on the Law and Justice list. He was also a member of Sejm 1997-2001 and Sejm 2001-2005. Kamiński was dismissed (as the head of CBA) on 13 October 2009 by prime minister Donald Tusk.[2]

Kamiński was sentenced to three years in prison for abuse of power in March 2015 but appealed the decision. After the 2015 Polish parliamentary election the Polish President Andrzej Duda pardoned Kamiński, the President's spokesmen argued that people who fight corruption "deserve special protection." In March 2016, the appeal court while examining the appeals raised during the case, in regards to the decision above of the President, annulled the judgement and discontinued the proceedings. On 31 May 2017 the Supreme Court, in an adopted resolution, recognised that pardon as ineffective. Despite the opinion of European Commission, CJEU, Venice Commission, Association of Polish Judges "Iustitia" and the United States Department of State, Polish Constitutional Tribunal ruled (with the one dissenting opinion) that the constitutional right of grace as a concept broader than pardon also includes acts of individual abolition. Afterwards, Kamiński became the head of the secret services as a minister without portfolio.[3]

In January 2024, Mariusz Kamiński was arrested at Poland's Presidential Palace due to a two-year jail sentence handed down by a Warsaw court in December 2023.[4]

Personal life

Kamiński is strongly opposed to communism. In 1981, he was sentenced to a year in a correctional facility for desecrating a monument of gratitude to the Red Army. He is also one of the few members of the conservative Law and Justice Party who is publicly an atheist.[5]

Awards

Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C496821%2Cprezydent-powolal-mariusza-kaminskiego-na-stanowisko-ministra-spraw
  2. ↑ https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C496821%2Cprezydent-powolal-mariusza-kaminskiego-na-stanowisko-ministra-spraw
  3. ↑ Poland: Ex-Chief of Anti-Graft Agency Is Pardoned in Abuse-of-Power Case, New York Times
  4. ↑ Higgins, Andrew (10 January 2024). "Former Minister Arrested After Standoff at Poland's Presidential Palace". The New York Times. New York Times. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  5. ↑ Krzymowski, Michał (24 February 2018). "W politycznej biografii Mariusza Kamińskiego stałe są tylko trzy rzeczy. Nienawiść do postkomuny, antykorupcyjna obsesja i ateizm" (in Polish). Newsweek. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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