Former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro faces allegations he ran a criminal group while in government
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A former Polish minister who is under investigation for alleged abuse of power during his time in the conservative-nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government has been granted political asylum in Hungary.
Zbigniew Ziobro, the former justice minister, was one of the most prominent faces of the PiS government and played a central role in its controversial judiciary reforms, which critics say undermined the rule of law and the independence of courts, leading to prolonged conflict with the EU.
Since the PiS government was voted out of power in 2023, Poland has been ruled by a pro-European coalition government led by the former European Council president Donald Tusk, elected on the promise of a reckoning with alleged corruption and abuse of state resources during PiS’s eight-year rule.
