The Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) has completed examining assets of the Supreme Audit Office chief Marian Banaś. Post-control proceedings are ongoing. Banaś has seven days to submit his remarks regarding the CBA's findings.
"CBA has finished the control of assets belonging to Mr Marian Banaś" - the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) wrote in its Twitter account.
The CBA also informed that Banaś has seven days "to submit his remarks to the Bureau's findings that couldn't be explained during the asset declaration control". The Bureau also said that it "won't be informing about results of the control until the procedure has been completed".
The Central Anti-Corruption Bureau has been looking into Marian Banaś' asset declaration since April 16. The investigation includes documents filed between 2015 and 2019, when Banaś was deputy minister and minister of finance, and chairman of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK).
Due to concerns regarding his asset declarations, on September 27, Banaś took an unpaid holiday.
In the TV report by "Superwizjer" TVN aired on September 21, Bertold Kittel focused on a tenement building standing in the Kraków district of Podgórze, which the chairman of the Supreme Audit Office, Marian Banaś, listed in his asset declarations. The journalist discovered a hotel there which rents rooms by the hour, and came across a criminal with a binding court sentence.
In reaction to the TVN24 report, Banaś filed a lawsuit against TVN SA and Bertold Kittel. He demands an apology, reatraction and donation to social cause.
The Supreme Audit Office on Wednesday denied media reports claiming that Marian Banaś has submitted his resignation from the office, and said that he remains on an unpaid holiday.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP
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