{"id":8578,"date":"2026-05-23T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/8578\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:45:06","slug":"polands-fugitive-former-justice-minister-cant-rest-easy-in-the-us-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/8578\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s fugitive former justice minister can\u2019t rest easy in the US \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ziobro is wanted in Poland over the alleged misuse of public funds and the deployment of Pegasus spyware against political opponents. He has consistently\u00a0denied the charges<\/a>, calling the investigation a political vendetta from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.<\/p>\n

He arrived in the U.S. earlier this month to work for right-wing Polish broadcaster TV Republika<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u00a0Reuters\u00a0reported<\/a> on Monday that U.S. Deputy Secretary \u200bof State Christopher Landau directed senior State Department officials to expedite a U.S. visa for Ziobro. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has close ties to the Law and Justice party.<\/p>\n

Sikorski said he has expressed Warsaw\u2019s \u201cdispleasure\u201d at Ziobro\u2019s presence in the U.S. to American authorities.<\/p>\n

Ziobro has called the criminal charges against him \u201cfabricated\u201d and said he would fight extradition before a U.S. court rather than return to Poland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked whether Poland would seek extradition, Sikorski said that was a separate process but noted that Warsaw has an extradition treaty with Washington. \u201cThe first thing is, of course, whether he\u2019s a journalist, whether he\u2019s entitled to that visa,\u201d the foreign minister said, noting that Ziobro faces 26 criminal charges in Poland.<\/p>\n

Ziobro is actively engaged in the Polish political debate from his U.S. refuge, frequently commenting critically on X about the actions of Tusk\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis job is to be in parliament and voting, and he has now, in our view, gained a journalistic visa under false pretenses,\u201d Sikorski said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a journalist, and he\u2019s already misusing the journalistic visa, because he\u2019s openly saying in social media that he\u2019s going to be touring the United States, organizing Polish communities. That\u2019s not a journalistic assignment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ziobro is wanted in Poland over the alleged misuse of public funds and the deployment of Pegasus spyware…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1002,986,1215,6953,451,64,989,1088,1089,354,3805,528,366,9,420,367,529,421,370,6954,422,423,371,6955,1207],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-asylum","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-department","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-tusk","tag-european-politics","tag-hungarian-elections-2026","tag-hungarian-politics","tag-hungary","tag-law-enforcement","tag-parliament","tag-peter-magyar","tag-poland","tag-polish-politics","tag-radoslaw-sikorski","tag-rights","tag-rule-of-law","tag-social-media","tag-spyware","tag-u-s-politics","tag-united-states","tag-viktor-orban","tag-visas","tag-zbigniew-ziobro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}