“I have no one. I have no money, I might be evicted soon” – according to Karol Nawrocki, Mr. Jerzy Ż. wrote to him, asking for help with the apartment. In the latest clip, Nawrocki decided to reveal that a resident of a council flat was arrested. Why did he reveal this? “Because my honesty is being questioned” – emphasizes the head of the IPN.
The case of taking over Mr. Jerzy's studio apartment is almost like a matryoshka. When voters think they have reached the “bottom line”, it turns out that the next threads are just waiting to jump out of the box. Besides, Karol Nawrocki and PiS themselves have complicated the case more than once.
What do we know today? Onet was the first to obtain documents that clearly indicated that the head of the Institute of National Remembrance became the owner of Mr. Jerzy Ż.'s studio apartment in Gdańsk, which he was supposed to buy with a significant discount for tenants of municipal apartments. The presidential candidate claimed that he gave the money for the buyout to his neighbor. However, it turned out that he paid for the apartment himself, placing an order with Millennium Bank. Then it came to light that the Nawrocki couple had concluded a preliminary agreement with the senior citizen to sell the apartment, in which they appointed themselves as his proxies authorized to sell the property. In practice, they sold it to themselves.
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It also remains an open question whether the payments were made in installments (paying for bills, rent and Mr. Jerzy's medicines, which his carer, who was assigned to him by MOPS, denies) or “in one go”, and therefore – whether the Nawrockis certified an untruth at a notary's office. In order to get out of the whole situation with face, the presidential candidate decided to donate the apartment to charity. As Mariusz Błaszczak assures, analyses are underway to determine which foundation will get rich (if it implements the goals of the church's charitable and care activities, it will be deducted in full as a relief from the income earned in the year). For now, there is no word on whether it can simply return it to Mr. Jerzy or transfer it back to the city of Gdańsk, which covers the costs of the senior's current care in the nursing home, despite the fact that Karol Nawrocki was supposed to undertake care.
Nawrocki: Everything is ABSOLUTELY in accordance with the law
In the latest ad shown at the end of the presidential campaign, the candidate once again referred to the issue of the studio apartment.
– MOPS help was insufficient for his needs. Mr. Jerzy had his dignity, his opinion, needs and expectations. He wanted to be treated with respect. Not as a problem, but as a person – Karol Nawrocki explains in the advert. – It was always from his side that he asked for help […] In 2011, he left me all his property in his will, including the apartment. However, a circumstance arose which I have not disclosed so far for the sake of Jerzy's well-being, but which, due to the fact that my honesty and pure intentions in this matter are being questioned, I have to disclose, because it is of decisive importance for this case – he adds.
At the end of 2011, Mr. Jerzy was arrested. He was afraid that because of this and the debts he would lose the apartment and end up homeless on the street, which is why the matter of selling the apartment was accelerated on his initiative – says the presidential candidate, citing the letters.
photo: Nawrocki2025 / YouTube
As he further reports, due to Mr. Jerzy's alcoholism, they determined that Nawrocki would gradually allocate PLN 120,000 for the maintenance of the apartment and immediate support for the senior.
– I don't think anyone in their right mind would imagine leaving so much money to a prisoner struggling with a serious alcohol addiction. This solution is ABSOLUTELY legal – he explains in the ad.
He also explains that in the notarial deed of purchase of the property in 2017 , Mr. Jerzy did not want a guarantee for himself regarding the apartment, such as a life annuity or easement agreement . – He trusted my word that as long as he wanted, the apartment would be at his disposal and he would live in it, and I did not have the keys. I paid for it for years. I did not derive any benefits from it. The apartment actually belonged to Mr. Jerzy. It was waiting. Today it is still locked by him, not by me – he adds.
Is this how apartment cleaners behave? He asks this question several times. “Swindlers or sly people would have sold Mr. Jerzy's apartment a long time ago or moved their family into it,” he continues.
However, this version of events was denied by Onet journalists in the podcast “Stan Wyjatkowy”. As it turns out, the quoted letters, or more precisely their dates, clearly suggest – the process of taking over the apartment began even before Mr. Jerzy's arrest. On October 20, 2011, Nawrocki makes a payment for the senior's council apartment to the Gdańsk city council from his account, on October 20, the will is also signed – at that time Mr. Jerzy is free, because the letters from the arrest do not arrive until the end of November.
UODO will deal with two candidates
There is also a question of whether Nawrocki could have disclosed the fact that Mr. Jerzy was arrested. The UODO is handling this case anyway in terms of disclosing personal data by both Rafał Trzaskowski and the civic candidate Karol Nawrocki. In the case of the KO candidate for president, it is about disclosing the contents of an envelope given to the head of the IPN during Monday's debate. The note there with the bank account of the DPS, in which Jerzy Ż. arrives, contained full data.
“In a similar manner, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office will take up the case of disclosing the data of the same citizen in a video interview by Mr. Karol Nawrocki (name, surname, address of residence)” – the President of the Personal Data Protection Office informed in a statement on Wednesday.
And further, “anyone who decides to make someone's personal data public along with a commentary (e.g. on the Internet, at a conference, etc.) must be aware that such action may primarily result in the infringement of personal rights and, as a result, in seeking their protection under the principles set out in the Civil Code (in accordance with Art. 23 of the Civil Code, personal rights of a person, such as: name, pseudonym or image, are protected by law)”.
The Office noted that the disclosed data do not in themselves constitute special category data, but “the contextual data provided (e.g. address) and the enormous interest in traditional, electronic and social media meant that the data of the aforementioned citizen and his life situation became widely known.”
“In the opinion of the President of the UODO, these are exceptional circumstances, which is why he decided to take up the matter of disclosing the citizen's data by both candidates for the position of the President of the Republic of Poland,” it was indicated.
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