TVP President Michał Adamczyk, appointed by the National Media Council, calls on Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz to pay PLN 45 million for causing losses to the company.
– Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your messages of support, there are really many. There is an ongoing struggle against lawlessness, against the authorities who, having no legal options, decided to take over the public media in Poland by force. Our struggle takes place at the legal level – said Michał Adamczyk in the recording published on the TVP Info profile on the social networking site X.
On Tuesday, the National Media Council unexpectedly appointed a new chairman of TVP. It was Michał Adamczyk, the current head of the Television Information Agency and until recently the host of the main edition of “Wiadomości”.
Adamczyk calls on Sienkiewicz to pay PLN 45 million
Michał Adamczyk informed that the Board of Directors of Telewizja Polska SA had taken a position on all registration matters, and also submitted a notice of reasonable suspicion of committing crimes to the detriment of the company and requests to secure claims ” for the invalidation of illegal resolutions adopted by Mr Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz and his partners”.
– Mr. Sienkiewicz, as a natural person, was also ordered by the company to pay PLN 45 million for losses, including: by switching off the signal and suspending the broadcast of many TVP programs and commercial breaks – Adamczyk said. And he stressed that dismissals sent by email by the “usurper TVP authorities” are “unlawful and therefore invalid under the law.”
“Acting on behalf of Telewizja Polska SA in Warsaw, as chairman of the board of directors of the company, appointed by resolution of the National Media Council No. 44/2023 of December 26, 2023, I call on you to pay the amount to the company by represented me within three days from the date of receipt of this request PLN 45,000,000.00 (in words: forty-five million zlotys) as partial repair of the damage to the company’s assets caused by your personal illegal actions taken on 20-27 December this year . – we read in the letter revealed by the wPolityce.pl portal.
Takeover of public media
On December 20, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, dismissed the current chairmen of the boards of directors of Telewizja Polska, the Polish Radio and the Polish Press Agency, as well as the supervisory boards. The minister appointed new supervisory boards of companies, which appointed new boards of directors.
On Wednesday, Sienkiewicz decided to put TVP, Polskie Radio and PAP into liquidation. He justified his decision with President Andrzej Duda’s veto of the budget law, which included funds to finance public media.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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