Law and Justice representative, Marcin Horała has been named the head of the investigative committee reviewing VAT embezzlement. One of his tasks will be to look into how the issue was handled during the coalition of Civic Platform and Polish People's Party which ended in 2015, when Law and Justice took power. Civic Platform feels there are strong grounds to extend the period to include the current government's time in power. Voices and emotions were raised during the debate ahead of the vote.
"Three days ago the Central Anticorruption Bureau arrested a Law and Justice a board member of Pomeranian Law and Justice, Przemysław M., a member of the "Good Change", who made almost half a million zlotys in Lotos in 2016", said Marek Sowa from Modern Party.
"Przemysław M. is an associate of Marcin Horała, who will head that committee. I realise that members of the committee must know about the mechanisms of extortion, but I ask: do they need to learn this from people engaged in illegal activity?
The chair of the VAT committee, Marcin Horała from Law and Justice replied: "representative Sowa clearly wasn't in court recently and is dreaming of a defamation case. And I think your dreams will come true because you've defamed me here".
"It's not the only friend Przemysław M. will have in this committee. Because there's also representative Kazimierz Smoliński. Your friend will have two members of the committe," said Civic Platform MP Zbigniew Konwiński.
He went on: "one might say "we reacted quickly in removing him from Law and Justice". But I have a printout from an hour ago from the Voivodeship Fund for Environmental Protection where Przemysław M. is featured as a member of the supervisory board".
"So is this how you fight with VAT loopholes? A government representative sits for embezzling VAT?" said Civic Platfrom's Zbigniew Konwiński.
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