Lubelskie

19th June 2009

A spokesperson for the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation called the case a classic example of, “Abuse of authority by prosecutors and far-reaching procedural errors.” Share:

Wladyslaw Szczeklik, a Lublin police commissioner, is suing the state for PLN 913,000 in compensation for false arrest and damage to his police career.

Wladyslaw Szczeklik, a Lublin police commissioner, is suing the state for PLN 913,000 in compensation for false arrest and damage to his police career. Mr Szczeklik was charged in 2002 of taking bribes from a pawn shop owner and remanded in custody for six months. The evidence against him was entirely based on verbal accusations. His main accuser, Piotr K., who repeatedly stated seeing the officer visit the pawn shop, later retracted his statements saying the state prosecutor had promised to reduce his sentence in cases he was facing in retur ...