Polaszczyk is a former officer of the Military Intelligence Services and served on the board of SKOK Wołomin, a cooperative savings and credit union near Warsaw, where he was also vice-chairman of the supervisory board.
According to the court, he co-led an organised criminal group that laundered funds from SKOK Wołomin and made it a permanent source of income.
He was found guilty of participating in the laundering of approximately 350 million PLN (around €83 million) originating from SKOK Wołomin.
The court also imposed a fine of 510,000 PLN (approximately €121,140) and ordered Polaszczyk to pay nearly 35 million PLN (approximately €8.3 million) to the Wołomin cooperative as partial compensation for the damage caused. The verdict is not yet final.
At the beginning of December 2025, the main trial concerning the embezzlement of over three billion PLN from SKOK Wołomin began at the Warsaw-Praga District Court.
More than 60 people face charges, including Polaszczyk, who is already serving an eight-year sentence for inciting an assault on Wojciech Kwaśniak, a former deputy head of Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority (KNF).
The prosecution had sought a 15-year prison term for him.
The background of the scheme, including the connections between the SKOK system and politicians from Poland’s former right-wing populist government, as well as links to intelligence services, was explored in the high-profile documentary “Korzenie zła” (“Roots of Evil”).
The film was produced by independent Polish journalists and brothers, Tomasz and Marek Sekielski, and was funded through a public crowdfunding campaign on Patronite.
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Source: IAR / Sekielski brothers’ YouTube channel