Janusz Kazimierz Kaczmarek (born 25 December 1961 in
Gdynia
Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in th ...
) is a Polish
lawyer,
prosecutor and
politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...
. He was
National Public Prosecutor from 31 October 2005 to 8 February 2007, and
Polish Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration from 8 February 2007 to 8 August 2007.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the
Gdańsk University.
His term as interior minister in Jarosław Kaczyński's cabinet ended abruptly when he was dismissed because the accusations of warning
Andrzej Lepper about an impending action of the
Central Anticorruption Bureau
The Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA, pl, Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne) is a division of the Polish government, reporting to the Prime Minister of Poland, responsible for addressing corruption in Poland. Located in Warsaw, the CBA has been f ...
action. Since then Kaczmarek has repeatedly criticized the government, especially Justice Minister
Zbigniew Ziobro
Zbigniew Tadeusz Ziobro (; born 18 August 1970) is a Polish politician. He is the current Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland, as of January 2019, serving in the Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki. He previously served in the same role fro ...
.
On 30 August 2007 Kaczmarek was detained for 48 hours on allegations of hampering the investigation and submitting false testimonies. Some observers in the Polish press initially regarded this arrest as a political dirty trick intended to silence critics of the Kaczynski government. However, on the press conference on 31 August 2007, prosecutors presented evidence supporting the charges presented to Kaczmarek.
On 6 September 2007 a Warsaw criminal court declared that the 30 August arrest of Kaczmarek was not necessary and irregularly made, although did not undermine the charges against him.
References
* 01.09.2007
Kaczmarek skłamał - obejrzyj nagrania z hotelowych kamer TVN24
* 06.09.2007
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1961 births
Living people
People from Gdynia
Polish prosecutors
Polish United Workers' Party members
Law and Justice politicians
University of Gdańsk alumni
Interior ministers of Poland
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