The Prosecutor’s Office in the western city of Wroclaw wants the late President Lech Kaczynski’s lawyer son-in-law to be released from his professional confidentiality in relation to an investigation into possible fraud from a credit union.

On 13 July, officers from the Internal Security Agency entered the law firm of Marek and Marcin Dubieniecki, husband of the late president Lech Kaczynski’s daughter. The raid might have been related to an investigation into financial impropriety at the SKOK credit union.

The lawyers provided them with several documents but refused to give verbal evidence, claiming that they are bound by professional confidentiality. “Therefore we decided to ask the Court in Wroclaw to exempt Marek and Marcin Dubieniecki,” said Malgorzata Klaus from the Prosecutor’s Office in Wroclaw. Klaus refused to reveal what the documents reveal.

In 2008, the Prosecutor’s Office in Wroclaw opened an investigation on alleged fraud worth 12 million zloty (3 million euro) out of the SKOK credit union. Seven people were accused in relation to the case. Several months ago, Polish media reported that Marcin and Marek Dubieniecki could have been involved in the alleged fraud.

The late Lech Kaczynski’s son-in-law denied the accusations. (mg)