Paweł Mucha accused the president of the National Bank of Poland of violating regulations. The NBP Legal Department issued a statement.
For several days now, more information has appeared in the public space about the situation within the National Bank of Poland and the attitude of Paweł Mucha, member of the NBP Board of Directors.
A text entitled “Paweł Mucha’s Byzantium” appeared on the Salon 24 website. The author of the text, hidden under the pseudonym “brek”, writes that “Paweł Mucha is the only member of the board of directors who does not supervise one department on behalf of the president of the NBP.”
“Presumably the reason for this is Mucha’s conflict with the NBP board of directors over his pay and other privileges, combined with Mucha’s enormous ambitions, which apparently extend as far as running in the next presidential election. Despite large gaps in powers and little experience in economics and banking, Mucha is fighting for a radical increase in his salary to the level of President Marta Kightley and is keen to take over her role as first vice president of the NBP, which grants higher rewards, bonuses, rewards and representative positions, including the opportunity to appear in the media and at international meetings,” we could read.
The NBP press office commented on the issue and the NBP board of directors passed a special resolution.
Statement from the NBP Legal Department
The Legal Department of the National Bank of Poland issued a statement regarding Paweł Mucha’s posting of statements regarding the NBP on the X platform (formerly Twitter). The main allegation concerns an alleged violation of the Rules of Procedure of the Monetary Policy Board, which provide that copies of the minutes of the Monetary Policy Board meeting are sent to the Chairman of the Board, members of the Board and members of the Governing Council of the NBP.
“Mr. P. Mucha marginalizes or omits the last part of this provision (…). This last provision provides that the minutes of the meetings of the Council shall be stored and made available at the NBP in accordance with the principles laid down set out in separate provisions. , in particular with regard to the treatment of legally protected information “The minutes of the meetings of the Monetary Policy Council are protected under the provisions of the law of 5 August 2010 on the protection of classified information”, according to the legal department of the NBP. As emphasized, classified information may only be made available to a person who guarantees confidentiality, and only to the extent necessary to carry out work, perform the function or carry out work on instructions.
“Contrary to what PP Mucha claims, there is no unconditional legal obligation to make the minutes of the MPC meeting available to members of the NBP board. (…) The personal ambitions and curiosity of Mr Mucha are not a sufficient argument to break these arrangements,” we read.
“It is impossible to assume that Mr. P. Mucha – as he himself emphasizes: a lawyer who has been a lawyer for twenty years – is not aware of the legal conditions for disclosing secret information. the automatic transfer of all secret information to him. “The confidentiality of the minutes of the meetings of the Monetary Policy Council can therefore be classified as a deliberate incitement to violate the provisions of the Law on the Protection of Classified Information. Mr. Mucha can raise the accusation of trying to violate legal norms against himself, and not against the NBP or the Bank’s bodies,” he said in a statement from the Legal Department of the National Bank of Poland.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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