Kwiatkowski about the scandal in the National Council of the Judiciary. It's all because of Tomasz Szmydt
Tomasz Szmydt caused a real storm with his escape to Belarus. The former judge became the cause of a row in the National Council of the Judiciary.
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski informed via social media about another scandal that occurred at the National Council of the Judiciary. The politician said that the head of the National Council of the Judiciary was to block the discussion about what exactly Tomasz Szmydt did in the council. The former judge previously served as director of the legal department.
Tomasz Szmydt is the reason for a row in the National Council of the Judiciary
According to the senator's report, members of the National Council of the Judiciary were asked not to inform journalists about the details of the materials produced by Tomasz Szmydt.
In the next entry, Krzysztof Kwiatkowski added that “at the request of the deputy head of the National Council of the Judiciary, Stanisław Zdun, a judge of the District Court in Warsaw, it was voted to close the discussion in the case of Tomasz Szmydt.” “It turns out that there are more important matters than explaining what the traitor in the National Council of the Judiciary was doing,” the senator concluded bitterly.
How did Tomasz Szmudt join the National Council of the Judiciary?
Tomasz Szmydt joined the National Council of the Judiciary in 2018. The then head of the council, Leszek Mazur, was looking for two positions: head of the office and head of the legal department of the National Council of the Judiciary. Tomasz Szmydt was recommended for the second job. His candidacy was to be proposed by Łukasz Piebiak, who was at that time the deputy minister of justice.
– His duties included supervising the work of assistants who prepared draft resolutions and justifications for resolutions in judicial competitions. In addition, it included giving opinions on legal acts, preparing internal regulations, cooperating with a legal advisor, issuing opinions on various issues of the functioning of the Council – explained Leszek Mazur in Rzeczpospolita, adding that Tomasz Szmydt had access to all documents related to personal competitions, retired etc.
The former head of the National Council of the Judiciary admitted that he was not entirely satisfied with the work of Tomasz Szmydt. – He was not very hard-working, and besides, he was not entirely familiar with the issues for which he was responsible in the council office. As a result, even though Szmydt was formally the director of the legal department, I benefited from the cooperation with the previous director – he explained.