Overview
- Lawmakers approved requests tied to 26 counts against the former justice minister, exposing him to a potential 25-year sentence if convicted.
- Ziobro was absent from the session and is currently in Hungary, where local media report he met Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
- Investigators accuse him of abuse of power, leadership of an organized criminal group, and siphoning money from the Justice Fund.
- He rejects the allegations as fabricated and frames the case as political revenge by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, citing ongoing cancer treatment.
- The case targets a key architect of PiS-era judicial changes that strained relations with the EU, and observers note his ex-deputy previously received asylum in Hungary.