“I never collaborated with any security service of the Communist regime in Poland. I never was on the side of the Communists,” stressed former President Lech Wałęsa, commenting on the initiation of a criminal proceedings by the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), in connection with his false testimony.
“I'll say it once again in public, for all Poles, for Europe and for the world: I never collaborated with any security service of the Communist regime in Poland. I never was on the side of the Communists,” Lech Wałęsa told TVN24.
“What they are doing, I do not know”
“I fought the best I could, with all my strength, wisdom and courage,” the former President added. “I was attacked, too. By [Czesław] Kiszczak, who forged documents – as they have admitted, by the way – which IPN confirmed several times. IPN gave me a certificate and I won all court cases,” he noted.
“What the current authorities, and IPN above all, are doing, I do not know. I know that sooner or later they will be held responsible because they are attempting to commit a political crime. But they will fail,” said Wałęsa and added: “I managed to deal with Communism, and I will manage to deal with [Jarosław] Kaczyński, [Sławomir] Cenckiewicz [head of the Military Historical Office and vice president of the IPN Council – ed.] and [Zbigniew] Ziobro [Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General – ed.].
Investigation in connection with Wałęsa's statement
Andrzej Pozorski, director of the Chief Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation and deputy Prosecutor General, announced on Tuesday that on June 29, 2017 the Prosecutor of the Chief Commission initiated an investigation into Lech Wałęsa's false testimony, to be used as evidence in preliminary proceedings conducted by the Białystok Branch of the Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation.
The new proceedings are related to statements made by Wałęsa, who testified on several occasions, including in an IPN investigation concerning possible forgery of documents, perpetrated by the SB [security service of the Communist regime], that the documents were not authentic.
More than 50 documents from 1970–1976
IPN officials note that when Wałesa was shown the TW “Bolek” documents, the former President denied he had wrote or signed it. At the end of June of this year, when dismissing the investigation, the IPN prosecutors found, however, that over 50 documents from 1970–1976, including a pledge to cooperate with the Security Service, reports and receipts were authentic, that is, they had been produced or signed by Lech Wałęsa.
The proceedings cover other cases, in which the former President testified and denied that he collaborated with the SB, received money for his collaboration, and wrote denunciations.
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