In the spotlight: Artur Zawisza

This person now faces the onerous task of questioning the central bank president Leszek Balcerowicz as well as a number of former Prime Ministers, Ministers and even a former President, and sifting through two decades of banking transactions. That man is Artur Zawisza, a 37-year-old politician who has made slow but steady progress up the political ladder.

In the 1980s, while at high school, Zawisza was an instructor in the underground Catholic scouting movement. He studied at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and just after his studies he served as an assistant to the then head of the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiTV), Marek Jurek - the current Speaker of the Sejm.

During the right's spell in power between 1997 and 2001, he held minor government positions. In 2001 Zawisza became an adviser to the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Kazimierz Ujazdowski. He has been a member of the Sejm since 2001, where during his last term he was on the Sejm's Public Finances Committee and headed the Polish-Irish parliamentary group. He was also the co-author of the Sejm's declaration of the sovereignty of  Polish legislation with regards to morality and culture.

This term he serves in the ranks of the Economic Committee, but it was only when he was appointed the chairman of the banking investigation commission in May 2006 that he really hit the headlines. A father of three, when not digging for corruption in Poland's banking sector, Zawisza enjoys playing table tennis.