Open letter
To Prime Minister Donald Tusk
and Minister of Justice Waldemar Żurek
Kraków, 13 July 2026. After five years of unanswered notifications to politicians, journalists, the anti-corruption bureau (CBA), prosecutors and ministers — today I published and sent an open letter regarding the systemic refusal to prosecute corruption, blackmail, and nepotism in Poland's National Science Centre (NCN) and Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA).
The letter concerns proceedings held under case ref. 4135-1.Ds.96.2022 before the Kraków-Podgórze District Prosecutor's Office, closed with a refusal to open an investigation — a decision whose reasoning contains, in my assessment, grave procedural and logical failures documented in detail in the attached filing.
Main recipients: Chancellery of the Prime Minister; Cabinet of the Minister of Justice.
Cc: National Prosecutor's Office (Kraków anti-corruption department), Ombudsman, Supreme Audit Office (NIK), Ministry of Science, Chair of the Sejm Committee on Education, Science and Youth, Media Ethics Council, and Polish newsrooms including Press.pl, Wirtualnemedia.pl, OKO.press, Forum Akademickie, Rzeczpospolita, Onet, Interia, Gazeta Wyborcza.
To be reviewed by OLAF (European Anti-Fraud Office) — due to EU co-financing of the funds concerned.
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Cc: National Prosecutor's Office (Kraków anti-corruption department), Ombudsman, Supreme Audit Office (NIK), Ministry of Science, Chair of the Sejm Committee on Education, Science and Youth, Media Ethics Council, and Polish newsrooms including Press.pl, Wirtualnemedia.pl, OKO.press, Forum Akademickie, Rzeczpospolita, Onet, Interia, Gazeta Wyborcza.
To be reviewed by OLAF (European Anti-Fraud Office) — due to EU co-financing of the funds concerned.
Status: Sent 13 July 2026 by email to all listed recipients. Substantive response requested within 30 days.