Rectors and professors of private universities detained in Poland

Rectors of private universities detained in Poland, BELTA reports citing Polish Press Agency (PAP).

A spokesman for Poland's Special Services Coordinating Minister Jacek Dobrzyński said that this morning agents of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne, CBA) detained four employees of non-state universities in Katowice, Krakow and Lodz.

"In the course of the investigation conducted jointly with the local office of the National Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, a total of 19 people were charged with a total of 99 corruption offenses," Dobrzyński wrote on Platform X.

A day earlier, officers of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau detained three people in connection with irregularities at private universities - in Gdańsk, Wrocław and Toruń. It was noted that the accused are suspected of receiving an illegal financial benefit in the amount of 630 thousand zlotys. Roman G. - rector of the Social and Economic University in Gdansk, Rafal K. - rector and founder of the Academy of Applied Sciences in Wroclaw, Grzegorz G. - professor at the Jagiellonian University in Torun were detained. The case, as CBA points out, is in the development stage; it is another procedural realization in the ongoing proceedings.

In addition, employees of the CBA branch in Rzeszów are conducting a multifaceted investigation of an organized criminal group operating at a non-state university.