The Polish foreign ministry turned to Hungary in a diplomatic note on Wednesday, requesting information on former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro’s travel from Budapest to the United States last week, Polish foreign affairs spokesman Maciej Wewior said.
The press reported on Sunday that the former justice minister, who had been granted political asylum in Hungary last December, is now in the US. Poland requested information on whether Ziobro, against whom an arrest warrant is in force, had been issued Hungarian documents enabling him to travel, Wewior said.
Wewior noted that the new Hungarian government had said ahead of its inauguration that it would not allow the former justice minister and former deputy minister Marcin Romanowski to receive asylum in the country.
Poland has also sent a diplomatic note to the US, requesting information on the legal basis of Ziobro’s stay there, Wewior added.
The former Polish justice minister was placed on a wanted list in February over 26 alleged offences linked to the Justice Fund created by the previous PiS government. The Polish prosecutor’s office also requested a European arrest warrant from the Warsaw district court the same month, but no decision has yet been issued.
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