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C. whereas, in the course of that investigation, the Warsaw divisionalRegional publicPublic prosecutionProsecutor’s serviceOffice establishedalleged that between 19 December 2017 and 8 June 2021 Michał Dworczyk exceeded his powers as Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister or failed to fulfil his official duties, and whereas that same prosecutionProsecutor’s serviceOffice thus decided on 13 June 2022 to initiate separate criminal proceedings concerning the use of his private email account for the performance of his official duties, the deletion of some official emails from his private email account after it was made public that unidentified perpetrators had gained access to that email account, and the possession of classified documents in a private email account, thereby harming the public interest and simultaneously obstructing a criminal investigation being conducted by the DistrictWarsaw Regional Public Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw;; whereas the investigation concerning thesethose separate proceedings was repeatedly prolonged in order to carry out procedural activities consisting, among other things, of analysing the content of emails from Michał Dworczyk’s private email account, as wellaccount asand hearing witnesses and, on 22 May 2024, a person considered to be a suspect. whereas, since Michał Dworczyk was serving as a Member of the Polish Sejm from 13 November 2023, a request for authorisation to initiate criminal proceedings against him was submitted to the Sejm on 6 June 2024,2024 before a decision to bring charges against him was issued, and whereas the proceedings following that request were closed given that Michał Dworczyk’s term as a Member of the Sejm expired and he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament;

D. whereas in the course of those investigations it was foundalleged that, between 1 March 2017 and 18 December 2017,2017 as State Secretary at the Ministry of National Defence,Defence thenand between 19 December 2017 and 8 June 2021,2021 as Minister and Member of the Council of Ministers and Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Michał Dworczyk is alleged to have failed to comply with the obligations laid down, inter alia, in the Law of 5 August 2010 on the protection of classified information, in so far as he used an uncertified and unsecured private email account to exchange correspondence relating to the performance of his official duties, such correspondence containing, inter alia, classified information, matters relating to defence and national security, matters relating to the secret services issues, matters relating to information security, etc., thereby harming the public interest; whereas his alleged actions constitute an offence under Article 231(1) of the Polish Criminal Code;

E. whereas,whereas it is alleged that, in the period from 8 to 22 June 2021, Michał Dworczyk subsequently obstructed the conduct of criminal proceedings by instructing a third person to permanently delete certain information from his private email account, thereby destroying evidence; whereas the action he is alleged to have taken constitutes an infringementoffence under Article 239(1), read in conjunction with Article 11(2), of the Polish Criminal Code;