Case against the former NCN Director Zbigniew Błocki, Prof. Wiesław Babik (UJ) and NCN Deputy Director Marcin Liana
This is the original and broadest documentation strand: parallel criminal and civil proceedings concerning the operations of Poland's National Science Centre (NCN) during the directorship of Prof. Zbigniew Błocki (NCN Director, March 2015 – 2023). Also relevant: Prof. Wiesław Babik (UJ), Deputy Director Marcin Liana, and the Dean of UJ's Mathematics Institute (2016–2024) Prof. Włodzimierz Zwonek.
Topics include: conflicts of interest in grant evaluation and reporting (in particular OPUS no. 2015/17/B/ST1/00996), irregularities in the inquiry concerning expert Manfred Mudelsee, hidden NCN correspondence with the Supreme Audit Office (NIK), criminal and civil cases ref. II K 321/23/P and I C 1671/22, and the Kraków District Prosecutor's decisions (ref. 4135-1.Ds.96.2022).
Below: documents already published on this site, grouped thematically for easier navigation.
Substantive documentation and evidence
- 1.
Conflicts of interest — Błocki / Babik / Liana / ZwonekPDF - 2.
Email chronology — NCN casePDF - 3.
Błocki's hidden reply to NIKPDF - 4.
Audio recordings — full analysisPDF
Court and prosecutor filings
- 5.
Criminal appeal — case II K 321/23/PPDF - 6.
Evidentiary motions — appellate proceedingsPDF - 7.
Appeal supplement — case I C 1671/22PDF - 8.
Motion to reopen — file 4135-1.Ds.96.2022PDF - 9.
the prosecutor (earlier case) decision — discontinuancePDF
NCN context: Mudelsee, NCN Council, NIK audit
- 10.
Błocki's refusal — Mudelsee inquiry (04 Dec 2020)PDF - 11.
Mudelsee — copy-pasted reviewsPDF - 12.
NCN Council meeting — January 2021PDF - 13.
NCN Council meeting — February 2021PDF - 14.
NIK audit — basic research fundingPDF