Ziobro didn’t have easy access to the media and to political cash, as that was controlled by PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński. However, the justice ministry did run a special fund that distributed hundreds of millions of złoty a year to help crime victims.
Last week, the fund’s former director, Tomasz Mraz, held a press conference alleging that the fund distributed cash on the basis of rigged contests that were personally overseen by Ziobro.
According to Mraz, “most contests held by the Justice Fund were carried out ‘improperly,’ and the main decision-maker was Ziobro.”
The whistleblower added that “politicians of Sovereign Poland … had been given limits on the funds from the Justice Fund that they could spend on political purposes.”
He also said that over two years he recorded over 50 hours of conversations with officials, although not with Ziobro.
Sovereign Poland issued a press release denouncing Mraz and calling his testimony “a pile of nonsense and manipulation that was used to brutally attack the politicians of Sovereign Poland,” adding: “There were no irregularities in the use of public funds. And the Justice Fund provided Poles with a dozen times more assistance more than under the Tusk government.”