One of the key officers from the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) is suspected of taking bribes from businessmen and of exposing other CBA agents.

Maciej D. was arrested half a year ago but the Central Anticorruption Bureau had kept it secret, until now.

“We did not want to reveal the information because he is suspected of treason, after all,” a CBA agent told the Rzeczpospolita daily. “The only positive aspect is that we managed to uncover the shady business,” he said. 

Maciej D. was one of the founders of the corruption busting unit set up in 2006. He was appointed to the post by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister while the Law and Justice was the ruling party.  

In 2006, Maciej D. was one of 20 agents employed at the CBA headquarters. He was deputy head of the key operational-investigative unit, which supervises all the main investigations. 

Maciej D. spent three months in custody but he is already at large. “He is accused of taking bribes, overstepping his powers and malpractice,” said Mateusz Martyniuk from the Warsaw Prosecutor’s Office. Maciej D. is suspected of accepting at least 18,000 zlotys (4,000 euro), a laptop and a mobile phone as a bribe. (mg/pg)