Latkowski has finished his GetBack documentary, but there is no release date. Instead, journalists are accused of pressure

In an over eight-minute-long film published by Latkowski on the web, the author of the document says, inter alia, about what was supposed to happen to the witnesses – that “journalists were sent against them” who “scared the main leaders of the victims away”. Latkowski in the video entitled “This is how financial scandals in Poland are blocked. The story about the GetBack case is illegal” adds:

Behind some people there is a large TV station, a large newspaper. Request: leave these victims alone. There were only a handful of them, and they were successfully tormented. I think that the media is not for what intimidating journalists and the victims.

Latkowski accuses of pressure, but does not give the names

for details by a journalist of the service Wirtualne Media, but did not want to give the names of stations or newspapers or names. He also admitted that there is currently no date or place for his new film to be broadcast. – This is a difficult question because my film is critical and inconvenient for many. In the coming days, it will probably turn out to be where and when the prime minister – he commented.

Earlier, Jacek Kurski expressed interest. Moreover, TVP broadcast the previous – controversial – Latkowski’s documents. On January 13, 2021, the film titled “Amber Gold tapes. The Tricity never dies” premiered on TVP1 and TVP Info. Sopot clubs where teenagers were allegedly raped. Many people called the documentary the TVP response to the Sekielski brothers’ film “Just don’t tell anyone”, in which they revealed pedophile scandals in the Church.

“Nothing happened” was supposed to – according to the creators’ announcements – shake up Poland, but it met with comments from journalists about bringing charges against people without having evidence against them. In connection with this production, in January 2021, Sylwester Latkowski was sued by Borys Szyc for infringement of personal rights, the actor also filed a lawsuit against Polish Television.

In the production about GetBack, Latkowski – as he announces – is to talk about the scandal that broke out in April 2018. “No holds barred. The GetBack Affair” will last 114 minutes.

The GetBack affair and SKOK Wołomin – what is it?

GetBack issued bonds for a huge amount, which it was later unable to pay off. GetBack borrowed over two billion zlotys from investors, and then stopped paying its liabilities. According to the prosecutor’s office, the scandal may affect over 10,000 individuals and almost 200 companies. Losses of bondholders are to amount to over PLN 2.5 billion.

The Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro himself, accused the former GetBack boss, Leszek Czarnecki, during a press conference. This one was sold by GetBack in 2016 and, as he himself emphasized, until then the company’s business model was different, and the company was not so indebted. Czarnecki, however, apologized for a possible “misselling” of GetBack’s bonds, ie offering the product in a way that could mislead customers. According to the Supreme Audit Office’s report on GetBack, state institutions have failed the most. NIK accuses, inter alia, The Polish Financial Supervision Authority that it did not detect threats to the market and customers, and that no inspection was carried out at GetBack for five years.

“Gazeta Wyborcza”, on the other hand, pointed out that GetBack’s bonds were sold by ten banks, and the actions of the prosecutor’s office focused mainly on Idea Bank, owned by Leszek Czarnecki. According to the journal’s findings, so far the investigation has omitted, inter alia, participation of state-owned banks in the scandal.

In turn, Spółdzielcza Kasa Oszczędnościowo-Kredytowa in Wołominie was established in September 1999, and in February 2015 a Warsaw court issued a decision declaring its bankruptcy due to, inter alia, irregularities in granting loans. A few months earlier, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority established a receivership in SKOK Wołomin, and then suspended the activity of the Cooperative Fund.

Wojciech Kwaśniak, who, as the deputy head of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, discovered irregularities in SKOK Wołomin, for which he was tortured by bandits, is to answer to the court for failure to fulfill his obligations in this case. – This is not a criminal case, it is a political matter – said in an interview with “GW” attorney Grzegorz Wołek, a defender of one of the former directors of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, who was accused together with Kwaśniak.