Prosecutor's office launches investigation regarding Constitutional Tribunal President

The Regional Prosecutor's Office in Katowice has started an investigation on the breach of duty or abuse of power by the Constitutional Tribunal President Andrzej Rzepliński, Regional Prosecutor's Office's spokesman Ireneusz Kunert informed on Thursday. "The investigation focuses on the case of a correspondence exchange between the prosecutor and the Constitutional Court, so the witnesses have not been interrogated," a spokesman specified. A case was directed from the Public Prosecutor's Office after Mariusz Muszyński, a Constitutional Tribunal judge appointed in December 2015, made an application to the office, accusing Andrzej Rzepliński of abuse of power. On Wednesday, Polish Radio informed that Muszyński wrote a letter to Rzepliński, in which the judge demanded him to uphold his professional duties. "As far as I understand, it is an inefficient attempt of interference in the independence and autonomy of the judiciary," commented President of the Constitutional Tribunal Andrzej Rzepliński.