Purchase of the Pegasus program by the CBA illegal
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The Israeli Pegasus spy system for the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) was illegally purchased from the Justice Fund, reports Gazeta Wyborcza daily. The CBA may be financed only directly from the state budget.
The motion of the minister of justice regarding "changes in the financial plan of the Victims Assistance Fund and Post-penitentiary Assistance for 2017," was positively assessed by the public finance committee in September 2017. Presenting the application of the Deputy Minister of Justice, Michał Woś did not say that the changes that are to enable the allocation of funds from the Justice Fund to "institutions from the public finance sector" will enable, inter alia, financing of purchases for the CBA.
Woś only calculated that PLN 20.05 million from the Fund would now go "to help victims and counteract the effects of crime", and as much as PLN 34.50 million to "purchase services and other activities, including the promotion of the Fund". The Commission accepted the request without discussion. Meanwhile, the day before, Woś applied to the Ministry of Finance for consent to allocate PLN 25 million from the Fund to "other activities" that are to "serve to prevent crime." In his application, however, Woś did not mention that it was about the purchase of surveillance equipment, and the name of the Pegasus program was not mentioned.
